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Events & Forthcoming Meetings

Central London |  Projects

London AT Friends

Tuesday 20th April

6:30-8:30pm, Friends Meeting House, 8 Hop Gardens,
St Martins Lane, WC2N 4EH.
Entrance fee: £5 (concessions £3)

Guest Speaker: Glenna Batson

(Details to follow)

If you would like to come to this event then please contact Friends administrator Janey Goodearl in the STAT office on 0207 482 5135 or email janey@atfriends.org

For map click here.

Tuesday 15th June

6:30-8:30pm, Friends Meeting House, 8 Hop Gardens,
St Martins Lane, WC2N 4EH.
Entrance fee: £5 (concessions £3)

Guest Speaker: Peter Ribeaux

Everything you wanted to know about the Alexander Technique but were afraid to ask: an evening with Peter Ribeaux

 

Please bring lots of questions and Peter will work with people as well as responding to questions.

If you would like to come to this event then please contact Friends administrator Janey Goodearl in the STAT office on 0207 482 5135 or email janey@atfriends.org

For map click here.

Projects

The Performing Self

The Alexander Technique has for many years been firmly established in colleges of music, drama and, more recently, dance. We have within our community many experienced teachers working in those fields and there have been several special events with an opportunity for teachers interested in working with performing artists to exchange with others and develop their knowledge: the International Congresses and the Conferences for Alexander Teachers in Music Institutions particularly come to mind.

However, these events are very ‘in-house’ and give little scope for sharing our knowledge and experience with people outside the profession. AT Friends is keen to play a part in raising awareness of what the Technique has to offer to performing artists and also to provide a forum in which we can exchange with and learn from others working in that field: voice coaches, speech trainers and therapists, performance psychologists, movement teachers, etc.

We plan therefore to host an event entitled The Performing Self, offering themed workshops for performing artists and a forum for exchange with people who practise and teach other disciplines. To explore ideas around this theme, we are bringing together people experienced in this field to form an ad hoc steering committee: John Hunter, Dorothea Magonet, Peter Buckoke, Judith Kleinman and Penny O’Connor. We would be pleased to hear from anyone wishing to get involved with this exciting project: as an organiser, a presenter, with a good idea, or suggesting a good contact who might be interested to join us.

Alexander Orchestra

An ongoing project is to form an "Alexander Orchestra", made up of musicians who are teachers or pupils of the Technique, which will perform at a Friends Event. Judith Kleinman and Peter Buckoke are beginning to gather together names of potential participants, so if you are a musician and would like to become involved please contact Judith at judeklein(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk