Dovetail

Dovetail is an EU-funded project which aims to provide an opportunity for adults with difficulties in written communication to rediscover the empowering possibilities of learning new skills or improving abilities they already have.

The project is run in the UK by Nottingham Writers' Studio. We aim to recruit a group of around 10-13 adult learners for the first year of the project. We will run monthly creative writing workshops for all participants, starting on Wednesday 17th October, where they will be encouraged and helped to write about their lives and their heritage.

Over the course of the project there will be three five-day joint workshops in each of the partner locations - Nottingham, Karlsruhe and Budapest. All UK participants will be able to attend the Nottingham joint workshop and one of the other two joint workshops, where we will work with participants from Hungary and Germany to share our stories.

Other outcomes of the project will be anthologies and performances of participants' work, which we will encourage learners to help organise, teaching them useful (and marketable) skills in the process.

There will be no cost to any of the participants - all expenses will be paid for from the EU grant.

If you know of any adults who you feel might benefit from taking part in this project, please pass on this info and encourage them to contact us to find out more.

The UK project managers, Pippa Hennessy (pippa.hennessy@yahoo.co.uk, 07970 274321) and Viv Purkiss (vivpur@hotmail.co.uk, 07866 399258), are keen to hear any questions you might have.