#WeAreOCA
The Open College of the Arts' blog
Browsing Category:
Ilkley Literature Festival
Stick to the script
Posted: 23/10/14 12:04 |
9 Comments
‘Don’t spend any time trying to be original if you want your film or television script to get noticed by producers.’ OCA tutor James Richards told it to them straight at last Saturday’s scriptwriting workshop at the Ilkley Literature Festival on Saturday. He compares attempts at originality to trying to build a car using British Leyland […]
Read More
Objects speak
Posted: 09/10/13 10:27 |
5 Comments
In ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’, the 2012 BBC Radio 4 series and accompanying book by former British Museum director Dr Neil MacGregor, we hear objects speak on a grand scale. As listeners and readers, we are invited to get to know objects from ancient civilisations and more contemporary cultures – pots, […]
Read More
Koumpounophobia
Posted: 09/10/12 03:42 |
4 Comments
11am Saturday morning: fear – of what to write, of whether any words will come, of writing well enough; of reading aloud scribbled sentences to a critical audience of strangers. 14 writers are gathered in a room in Ilkley, the top of the moor just visible through the window, on the second day of the […]
Read More