WORKSHOPS
Becky trained in workshop facilitation with Artlink West Yorkshire in 2002-3. The course involved practical advice on being self-employed as well as talks and role-play on working with different community groups and a placement with a group of adults with mental health issues.
For over seven years, Becky has worked independently and in conjunction with other artists to facilitate creative writing and combined arts projects and courses with a wide variety of community groups and schools. She also runs one-day workshops, drop-in sessions at festivals, and enrichment days. Her experience includes facilitation of drama and performance workshops and editing and compiling material for publications.
Sessions are tailored to organisations’ requirements, held in an open and supportive environment and are often themed. Becky creates a warm yet challenging environment for her participants. She uses a variety of techniques and stimuli to provoke written responses from participants. These include literature, discussion, visual art works, objects, exercises, games, guided visualisations, cut-outs, photographs and music.
Becky was trained in community arts by Artlink West Yorkshire in 2003 and in Child Protection in 2007. She obtained her PGCE in Adult Education in 2008 and is qualified to deliver The Bronze and Silver Arts Awards.
‘Creativity and playing are intrinsic to us as human beings. As children, we use our imaginations instinctively. Yet in this stressful and technological era, our imagination is a part of ourselves which is often lost long before we reach adulthood.
I run creative writing workshops with the primary aim of reviving the imaginary lives of those I work with. I work on the philosophy that creative writing is something to be explored not taught. I aim to facilitate sessions as opposed to teach them in a traditional sense, to allow people a little space to play because through play we move closer to realising our full potential, through play we learn to become more ourselves’ – Becky Cherriman.
If you are interested in discussing how Becky could work with your organisation or school, please call her at 07792266816 or email her at write@beckycherriman.com
Artlink Assertive Outreach Project 
CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING PROJECTS
Becky teaches creative writing courses for the WEA at Headingley and Deepdale Community Centres and with adults with disabilities at Osmondthorpe Resource Centre for twenty-thirty weeks per year. Along with Michelle Scally Clarke, she is one of the facilitators for the Ilkley Literature Festival Young Writers Group. She regularly works with other organisations including Artlink West Yorkshire and West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Becky is available for other work on Mondays, Wednesdays, Tuesday mornings, Fridays and most weekends and evenings (except Mondays). During school holidays she is also available on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
At this stage of her career and because of her experience with a wide range of community groups, Becky is happy to take on further work in training professionals to facilitate creative writing workshops with different community groups.
If you are interested in discussing how Becky could work with your organisation or school), please call her at 07792266816 or email her at write@beckycherriman.com
Artlink Project at The Howland Centre, Dewsbury.
PAST PROJECTS
Becky has facilitated courses and projects with the following schools, organisations and groups.
Organisations and schools Becky has worked with include West Yorkshire Playhouse, Artlink West Yorkshire; Leeds City Art Gallery; Shire View; Scope; CASAC; Leeds City Council; GATE; Burley Lodge Centre; Shelter; Ripon Community Link; Ataxia UK; Yorkshire Art Circus; Canopy; Education Leeds; Candystripe; First Floor; Lifeforce Productions; Leeds Health For All, Ebor Health Matters; Bracken Edge Primary; Hillcrest Primary; Moortown Primary; Priestthorpe Primary; Agnes Stewart; Kettlethorpe High; Outwood Grange College; Rossington Hall; Humber Mouth, Ilkley, Bradford and Morley literature festivals.
Groups Becky has worked with include children and adults with learning disabilities, older people, Key Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 children, 9-10 year-olds from inner city schools, 13-17 year old writers, young people with ataxia, young travellers, young women leaving care, gifted and talented year 7s, children’s holiday club, adults with mental health issues, women, adults with physical impairments, homeless people, ex drug users, over 55s, unemployed people, blind women and women with visual impairments, voluntary sector and mental health workers, writers, young refugees and asylum seekers, parents and carers of children with disabilities.
Work produced during her workshops has been performed at several venues including The Leeds Town Hall and Leeds Civic Hall, published in ‘One Thing Leeds to Another’ (Lifeforce Productions, 2005) ‘Waiting for the Future’ (Shelter, 2006), ‘Urban Fusion Fashion’ (2006), ‘Create 07 Anthology’ (2007), ‘Sleepless at Dawn’ (2009), ‘Bridging Words Bridging Worlds’ (2009) ‘Write To Change’ (2010), ‘Forgotten’ and online at the Scope site. (insert link http://www.childreninthepicture.org.uk/ Several of Becky’s students have been published or won competitions and films of her work have been exhibited in Leeds City Art Gallery and Tate London.
If you are interested in discussing how Becky could work with your organisation or school, please call her at 07792266816 or email her at write@beckycherriman.com