Reader development
Reader development
What can reading do for you?
One thing reading can do is make you feel good. And if you're using reading to help other people feel good - you'll feel even better.
Here's a timely selection of ways to get more involved in reading for your own wellbeing and for others.
Reading for Wellbeing
A reading group at Glasgow Women's Library have been exploring poems to read for wellbeing. They're sharing this list of inspirational poems here, and some of their reasons for choosing them. Are you involved with a group that has made a similar list? Send it to us, and help build up a picture of the poems that help people feel good.
Download GWL readers' Poems for Wellbeing list
The Reader Organisation Conference
17 & 18 May 2012, London
The inspirational Reader Organisation's conference spans one day on 'Reading to Live Well' - explaining how and why their wide-reaching 'Get Into Reading' programme really works for groups and facilitators alike. The second day is for those who have completed initial GIR training, and are topping up practical skills and further learning.
Living Voices: Celebrating age and experience
9 June 2012, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
A training session to explore approaches to creativity in later life involving story, poetry, song and gentle movement. This is a day for all those working in professional or voluntary roles with older people, and for all those in arts or community projects who would like to become involved. Led jointly by the Life Stories project, the Scottish Poetry Library, and the Scots Music Group.
Living with Ballads
Skills (2)
Fri 25 May, 1.30-4.30pm
Sheila Stewart shares her unrivalled repertoire of Scottish Traveller ballads, and speaks about a lifetime of singing and interpreting words and music. At its core, Sheila's art searches for 'the conyach', the special energy or inspiration which unleashes the power of the song. A special opportunity for all those in love with Scotland's unique ballad traditions.
£28/£24 Network members
Scottish Storytelling Centre bookings 0131 556 9579