Adrian Spendlow's Online CV

Adrian Spendlow - Storyteller - Performance Poet - Writer - Presenter
6 Acomb Mews, Front Street, York YO24 3BQ
01904 789950
07787654511
adrian_spendlow@btinternet.com

DOB 24/03/1954

I have worked for such organisations as
The Poetry Society
Cape UK
Leeds Museum Services
Have performed at such festivals as,
Glastonbury,
Henley On Thames Festival of Music and the Arts,
Buxton Fringe,
Otley Black Sheep Festival
and Musicport
Have been represented by,
Tantara Arts,
Manilla PR
and Persula Touring among others.
I am currently writing for Hopscotch Educational Publishing

Please view:
http://uk.oocities.com/adrian_spendlow@btinternet.com
http://www.spendlowsyork.co.uk

Much of my work, particularly for schools and the community have been commissions, with many poetry dramas and activities still available.

Current projects include.
Co-writing / recording the Spendlow's York series.
Storytelling residency each week in York.
Poetry and music residency twice monthly in York.
Working within;
Mists of the Ancients,
Resonance and
Beat Poetry with Vers Libre Nights
Surprise Us, in schools and care homes with artist Jo Pullar for Arts Action York (in the planning stages).
Monthly residency on the Jerry Scott show.
Poet in residence at the Jorvik Centre for York Archaeological Trust.
(I have just been invited to do likewise for the Roman Museum in York)
Nordic Myth Writer - CD Rom.
Poemspotters (Hopscotch) covering over thirty poetry forms with a thousand writing ideas.
Access All Areas Music Awards.
The Kirklevington Stones Project for Stockton Museum Service.
I have two students on placements with me presently.

Recent projects include:
The Viking Banner Project for York Archaeological Trust in cooperation with Arts Action York and artist Jo Pullar.
Road to Ragnarok for the Jorvik Viking Festival.
Odin's Odyssey.
The Dolly and the Riverboat for York River Festival.
Streets Alive Concrete Poetry.
Path of Sleipnir for Joloblot.
At Adrinskald's Table for the Winter Festival.
Slavery for Arts in MIND with school placements and a Ferens Gallery showing.
Mists of Ancients and other performances for York Literature Festival.
Light of an Ancient City for the Festival of Light.

Adrian

Oh yes; I was a staff nurse in Psychiatry before giving up a position with a large team in the Social and Recreations Department to look after my two daughters on my own. It was then that my writing started leading places.

I have no criminal record and a clear CBI check.

I would be thrilled to be part of your project and I live by the tenet that poetry can go anywhere.

Adrian's CV info

Adrian Spendlow is established as a performance poet and storyteller working widely in education and in the community. He is adept at creating projects to suit your needs, be it poetry forms, group writng, personal development or mixed media.
He is described as writer in residence by both the Roman Bath Museum and the Jorvik Centre, ghost-teller in residence for the Jerry Scott show on Radio York and is a regular outreach worker for the education office at DIG. As well as being adept at stimulating quality writing and bringing creativity out of all, he works on chosen themes and with a wide variety of poetry forms; providing follow up activities, creating display possibilities and strongly believes in establishing outcomes.
Placements and commissions include ghosts and Greeks for St Olaves / St Peters in York, Preston Hall Museum; the Kirklevington Stones, Audio History CDs through Spendlow's York, Archeology for Holy Trinity church and in the future with Arts Action York and the Hungate project, Myth in our lives in Chester Le Street, Shakespeare and George and the Dragon for Halifax Piece Hall, Slavery with children, where English is a second language, now living in Hull. community development with the vulnerable housed in Sheffield and York, personal expression and writing in moderns forms with colleges and creative expression in prisons and safehouses, reminiscence for performance within residential homes and with blind and partially sighted people, as well as a wide range of themed poetry and storytelling commisisons from pirates to haiku.
Using his experiences as a community worker and staff nurse in psychiatry he works with all groups and levels of ability.
"I don't know what you've been doing in my kid's school today mate, but you are more popular than Father Christmas!" a parent.