Creative Progression - Online Resource
The Great North Rnu
During 2010, Bob Beagrie and Andy Willoughby led a series of creative writing workshops with a group of adults who were homeless or at risk of homelessness. Together, they created a drama piece, The Great North Rnu (pronounced renew), that weaves together the stories of several characters in the hours leading up to the Great North Run. The play was performed to a live audience by participants and support workers in the Learning Space at Theatre Royal in September 2010.
Some of the activities led by Bob and Andy, together with The Great North Rnu script, are now available for download. We hope this resource will both inspire, and provide practical support for, staff in the use of the arts within a group setting to explore issues of personal and collective identities.
The Great North Rnu Full Resource (pdf)
The Great North Rnu Activity 1 (pdf)
The Great North Rnu Activity 2 (pdf)
The Great North Rnu Activity 3 (pdf)
The Great North Rnu Activity 4 (pdf)
The Great North Rnu Activity 5 (pdf)
Hidden City
Prior to the Great North Rnu, the creative writing workshops produced a series of powerful poems and prose, brought together in an anthology entitled The Hidden City that was launched at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. Several of the pieces of writing were also been selected for publication in The Big Issue.
We have made a read-only copy available below. Please contact us if you would like a hard copy of this publication.
