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Development
Haworth Hodgkinson has been involved in developing and promoting activities in the
arts for many years.
He is the founder and director of
North East Writers, the agency supporting and promoting literature
in North-East Scotland through activities including the annual New Words festival. Founded in 2006 as Wordfringe, New Words is a month-long
festival of poetry, prose, drama, storytelling, comedy and cross-artform collaborations
taking place in venues throughout Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
In 2007 he founded the theatre company
Wordfringe Festival Players, which exists to mount productions of
new writing at the festival and to tour new work to other events and venues.
The Blue Salt Collective
was formed in 2006 by Haworth Hodgkinson with fellow poets Catriona Yule and
Knotbrook Taylor to explore ways of presenting poetry in performance
through collaborations with other artforms. To date, they have performed in Edinburgh,
Lerwick, Pennan, Banchory, Dundee, Strontian, Fraserburgh, Banff, Aberdeen and Pittenweem.
From 1999 to 2005, Haworth Hodgkinson chaired the Lemon Tree Writers in Aberdeen, organising regular
workshop meetings, rehearsed script readings and performances in Aberdeen as well
as week-long retreats to Glenelg (2002, 2003, 2004), Culkein (2005), Rosbeg, County
Donegal (2007), and Achnacloich, Skye (2009), exchanges with writers' groups in
Dundee, Inverness, Huntly, Elgin, Arbroath, Banchory, Stonehaven, Lerwick, and Kyle
of Lochalsh, and visits by guest writers including Les Murray, Bill Duncan, Suhayl
Saadi, Gordon Meade, and Peter Troxler. Also with Lemon Tree Writers he edited
and co-wrote
Soul Traders, a play for 14 actors and 2 musicians, performed by
Spotlight Theatre in Inverurie Town Hall (2001).
During September 2009 he ran creative writing and cross-disciplinary workshops for
the Aberdeen 50+ Festival, and he
has also run writing workshops for the Broch Community Centre in Fraserburgh, Woodend
Barn in Banchory and Aberdeen Writers' Circle. In 2012–2013 he led
Writing on the Green workshops at the
Tolquhon Studio in Udny Green.
Haworth Hodgkinson has also written a column on literature for the Leopard Magazine (2004-2005), profiling amongst others
Les Murray, Grantly Marshall, Bill Duncan, Hilda Meers and Gerard Rochford.
With Kathy McArdle, Haworth Hodgkinson organised Playmakers, a series of
rehearsed script readings and discussions with theatre professionals (2003-2004).
He has worked with Inverurie
Music and Music Centeral,
organisations promoting concerts by professional musicians in venues in central
Aberdeenshire, since their respective foundations in 1999 and 2008.
From 1995 to 1998 he ran Ormiston Junior Theatre, a youth drama group in
Dundee, leading weekly workshops, directing productions including collaborations
with adult community drama groups, and organising a touring show visiting five community
venues in Dundee.
Haworth Hodgkinson was coordinator of Peterhead Writers' Group (1994-1995),
and during this period also ran workshops and directed productions for the Fraserburgh
PHAB Drama Group. He was Music Tutor on the Fordyce Junior Youth Drama Summer
School (1994), and Shadow Music Tutor on the Fordyce Youth Drama Summer School
(1994).
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