"Speak your mind" - Publishing Workshop

Day 1: What’s on my mind?

• Morning 9 am -1 pm      Introduction in a group and individually
• After lunch –
• Setting up editorial teams
• Choice of subjects

Day 2: Is anyone out there interested in my thoughts and ideas? And do I want to share them?

• Intended reader / audience
• Selecting places and people for interviews, information, to be photographed
• Gathering of material

Day 3: How can I tell you my story? Communication as a dialogue with a reader

Once we understood What do we want to say (Day1) & Whom do we wish to share our thoughts with (Day2), it is time to choose the most effective way to have a conversation.

• Texts
• Photographs
• Illustrations
• Drawings

Day 4: Do you believe that someone will get excited, astonished, moved to tears, intrigued, be charmed, fall in love, laugh, learn new things, expand horizons of thinking by taking in your story?

• Morning - choose
• Articles
• Images
• Design

• Afternoon
• Designing 4 page “Generic Publication”

Mock-up design with texts & images pasted onto a board

Day 5:  A Generic Publication (to be assessed by a group and a tutor)

• Have I understood myself better by doing this? Did I become more knowledgeable about myself, the world around me, other people, ideas, emotions?
• Is there any point to expressing myself?
• What are the barriers, that keep people apart, restricting appreciation of each other?
• Was it the right way to say what I had on my mind? (technology, medium, nature of language, design, imaginary, ability to follow with updates)
• Mobile Electronic communication (PDA, Mobile Phones, Laptops, Blackberry, Plastic Logic tablet
• Internet inside a private home: blogs, web sites, YouTube, even Twitter
• Printed text on paper (books, magazines, newspapers)
• Radio
• Outdoor event & a family day out & carnival
• Dance & theatre & opera & film
• Television
• Speakers Corner and Loudspeakers
• Mass gathering including large screens (Orange Revolution, Rock concert)
• Street demonstration
• Exhibition & art performance
• Advertising on streets & Billboards

• How does it feel to work in a group? Do you feel that you embraced a lateral thinking, a team spirit, a concern for your “reader”?
• What do you think you had achieved? How do you feel about that?

Do you like what has happened?

A fee: £ 1000 plus Travel / Accommodation expenses

Stories from the "Speak your mind" Publishing Workshop