Lynn Whitehead Archives - Make, Do & Friends

Playing with Padlet

In February, Jacqui and Lynn ran a Talking Trees Connect intervention – using Zoom as a virtual car park for everyone to meet, and Padlet as the gallery space to…

Create#18 – Kennings and Red Kites

I am a thermal floater. A finger flutterer Calling for a takeaway treat. I am an alarm screecher. Lesson teacher, Not sneaky, you know I am near. A rampant rodent…

Create #18: Easy Poetry with Kennings

Just like the Anglo-Saxons and Norsemen before us, we litter our language with kennings—it’s the way we have of using two words where one would do! Who hasn’t described a dull…

Talking Trees: a conversation with remarkable trees

The Talking Trees sessions, run by Lynn Whitehead and Jacquie Campbell, have now concluded. Our thanks to everyone who took part and posted images of their favourite trees to the…

Create #10: Your Own Lyrics

Challenge yourself to write a new verse for a well-known song. Based on what you see when you walk out of your home into your village or town, write some…

Radio Drama Listening Club

Our next session will be on Monday 22nd February – and new members are always welcome. Have you ever listened to something on the radio and thought, ‘I wish I…

Community Skill Sharing

Join Lynn, via Zoom, on Monday, 30th November from 11:00am to 12:30pm, for a little light-hearted skill sharing. Zoom meetings can be fun – and this free skill sharing session…

Create #4: Off By Heart

Challenge yourself to learn a speech or poem off by heart. People often ask actors ‘How do you learn the lines?’ Well, there’s no magic elixir that makes it easier…

Connect in Clare

A walk in the Park – Clare County Park – with artist Jacqui Campbell and writer Lynn Whitehead opens up a whole new way of connecting with our a daily…

Out and about with The Rural Coffee Caravan

It’s been a great week to start travelling with The Rural Coffee Caravan; from a heat wave in Combs to umbrellas in Peasenhall – it’s been a joy to be…

Bring your surroundings to life with some dramatic creative writing. Hello, I’m Lynn Whitehead and for over 40 years I’ve worked as a professional theatre-maker and writer, creating dramatic characters…

Creative monologues

Here are some fabulous characters created in response to the creative writing activity – all inspired by a feature of people’s local area. You can see that some have the…