Upcoming events and fun things

::POETRY::

John Hegley's Elevenses
Saturday, 25 July, 2009 : 11 am
Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London
£6/£5
Nearest Tube: Covent Garden

Saturday morning is the new friday night with John Hegley and guests. £6/5. Starts 11am. Bar open for breakfast.


::THEATRE::
A Shropshire Lad (as part of Grimeborn 2009)
Wednesday, 2 September, 2009 : 8 pm
Studio 1, Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street
£10
Nearest Station: Dalston Kingsland

I'll be performing with Peter Shipman in this gentle and loving presentation that combines English art songs with love and war poetry to follow a country lad from his days of wooing in the village and at the fair, to an untimely death far from home and from those he loves. He is an allegory of the tragic and unprecedented loss of life, love and dreams in the Great War.


::IN OTHER NEWS::

SOCIAL NETWORKS PLUS
Myspace: I've set up a myspace page with a few clips of my poems and a podcast of my prose poetry sequence "Howdoes it feel to be loved?"Click here to have a listen and add me as your friend to keep up-to-date with my upcoming shows& events.

Twitter: Follow me on twitter on @heatherataylor.

YouTube: New videos up of me performing on the SouthBank and at BCB in Soho. Click here to see more.


::RECOMMENDATIONS::

CANUXPLOITATION

CANADIAN CONTENT is Vancouver Canada’s premier sketch and Improv comedy group. Winners of the Canadian Comedy Award “Best SketchGroup”, and featuring the top of Canada’s improv community including Canadian Comedy Award winner of “Best Male Improviser.”
Canuxploitation is a partially scripted, partially improvised comedy extravaganza from Canada, God’s America.

NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS & THE UPTIGHT. MATURE LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER, but funny.

See them at the Leicester Square Theatre from 4 August - 30 August. Click here to find out more


MY PLACE OR YOURS
Apples and Snakes have a really cool virtual writers’ residency called My Place or Yours – www.myplaceoryours.org. Check it out and leave your comments online!

Let's Talk PayPal goes live!

For the past 2 months I've been preparing for the launch of a new blog for PayPal called Let's Talk. It's a website dedicated to help UK online shoppers get to know PayPal and eCommerce better and I'll be running the site, blogging and answering questions about PayPal and related topics.

With access to the office and the people behind PayPal, I can help you get the right answers to your questions. So ask away! In addition to PayPal related topics, I'll regularly produce video interviews and podcasts with experts in finance, social media and web development, to help people use PayPal and the internet better. You'll find me in some of the videos so watch out for me popping up every now and then!

If there's anything you'd like to see or have an expert you think I should interview, let me know. It's great to get outside feedback for folks like you as I want to make this site an interesting and informative portal that people want to come back to again and again. So come visit me online on Let's Talk - https://www.paypal-talk.co.uk

Wild West Dream goes out to festivals

I've just completed my first short documentary with Michelle Tsen and Natalie Kardum through Red on Black Productions. Wild West Dream follows the only active UK rough stock competitor on the European Rodeo circuit, Cambridge firefighter Gareth Boyd. It’s the story of a man following his cowboy dreams as he tries to balance his life in the UK with competing in Rodeos in France and Germany on his own steam and with his own buck.

Wild West Dream is currently in consideration for a few festivals but in the meantime, find out more at www.wildwestdream.com. We're looking at expanding it into an hour long television documentary so if you're interested in getting more details, contact Red on Black Productions.

How I ended up on a Small Island - 5 podcasts now out!

This series highlights the strange andsometimes unexpectedexperiences of Heather Taylor's new home of England while interactingwith the localinhabitants; their strange customs and exoticarchitecture make Heather feel that she has stepped into adifferentworld. She gives us, the listener an insight into her thoughts fromthe New World to her experiencesof living in the old world ofShakespeare surrounded by millions of people.

Find out how she gothere and why she decided to stay...

Click here to listen to episode 1 (http://peopletalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=40437 )
Click here to listen to episode 2 (http://peopletalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=430487 )
Click here to listen to episode 3 (http://peopletalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=446841 )
Click here to listen to episode 4 (http://peopletalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=450855 )
Click here to listen to episode 5 (http://peopletalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=503681 )

The LAST EPISODE will be out over the next couple weeks or so so staytuned!

Session three with Bernardine

My third session with Bernardine was the first session we looked at actual poems. My first task was to write poems as one of my characters and I chose to follow John's story. At first I only knew that I would write about the dates he went on but then it became more so I have him ones about him at work, dates, and meeting my main character Kathy.

The feedback was good - they needed work as first drafts usually to need to have. The one thing I could do was write more description which I realized I cut back on because I was trying to write in a more condensed way. Of course description can live in one sentence and be specific so I need to go through the poems and put more in.

Bernardine suggested that I add more to his character and the desciption of the world around him (through his eyes) by watching the type of men I thought would most resemble him. I think I can be up to that task ;) I am also going into Selfridge's to find his cologne - what does it smell like, why did he pick it, etc. and also to go through the suit section - feel the make, the cut, how did his suit, clothes, bag, shoes, hair cut, style show more about him. I never thought of actually feeling/ experience those parts of a character.

SO this weekend it's a trip to the shop and some coffee drinking/ people watching. Well cute boy watching actually. Hee hee.