Deanna Rodger Facilitation Masterclass

Join poet facilitator Deanna Rodger for a masterclass on poetry facilitation.

Covering intention, planning and career steps, Deanna presents facilitation as a craft and an asset to a creative practice rather than an add on.

This 90-minute session will be a space for questions and tips and ideas.

Cost:

Free to Women Poets' Network members (join here)

Thanks to Arts Council England, we are able to offer subsidised tickets for non-members. Our tiered pricing structure helps to make our events more accessible.

Pay What You Decide - £8/10/12

We invite you to choose the tier that you can comfortably afford:

• Getting by: For those on a tight budget
• Getting on: For those with a little more financial flexibility
• Getting ahead: For those with greater financial security

Deanna Rodger is a writer, performer, and facilitator.

She has facilitated poetry for over ten years and adapts, designs, and delivers long term and intensive programs, including The Art of Dispute with Lauderdale House, Poetry and Public Engagement module at UWE (with Alyson Hallett) and Who Knows Poetry (Arts Council and National Lottery Grant funded).

She’s worked with the British Council (various), Writing for Performance (with the late Benjamin Zephaniah at Brunel University), Arvon Foundation, Roundhouse, Lyric Hammersmith, Albany Deptford, Apples and Snakes, New Writing South, Clifton College, National Theatre, Young Vic, The Old Vic, Cardboard Citizens, Foundling Museum, Tate, Arts Admin, Hamilton Trust and countless others, and is an in-house tutor at School of Communication Arts (‘The most successful AD school in the world’)

This combined skill set of performer and facilitator has secured her work all over the globe including Mexico (Anglo Arts), Sudan, Zimbabwe, Canada (British Council) as well as schools tour of Scotland (Scottish Book Trust), and with many different groups of people; refugees (Young Vic); women affected by the criminal justice system; sex workers; victims of DV (Futures Theatre) and, creatives (National Theatre and many other UK theatres).

In 2021, her reimagined version of ‘If’ was read by Serena Williams for International Women's day BBC Sport and she has been commissioned by brands and institutions including; Adidas, FIFA, St Paul’s Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey. 'his fingers have left', a collection of form poetry and process came out in 2021 (Burning Eye Books).

This masterclass is for women poets.