Workshop | A Calling Card to Writing: Pitching with confidence

Workshop | A Calling Card to Writing: Pitching with confidence

Developing screenwriting language, identity and confidence, finding your own personal voice as a writer, developer and pitcher of stories.

By CRIPticArts

Date and time

Monday, June 16 · 10:30am - 12pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

The third and final in a series of three workshops with Genevieve Barr. Developing screenwriting language, identity and confidence, these workshops will delve into finding your own personal voice as a writer, developer and pitcher of stories for television and film.

About this workshop

How to talk about ourselves and our work. Writing well is one thing, but pitching is as  important, if not more. Preparing to pitch requires a different type of craft. For writers early  in their career, the chance of writing a treatment on their idea comes from talking a good  game. Troubleshooting how to pitch, what to do with the takeaways and all other things to  ask about this business.

About Genevieve Barr

Genevieve is a deaf writer and actor, most well known for starring in BBC’s ‘The Silence’, to most recently Channel 4’s ‘The Accident’. Her writing credits include co-writing ‘Then Barbara Met Alan’ with Jack Thorne for BBC/Netflix and an episode of the A word spin-off ‘Ralph and Katie’ for Peter Bowker. Genevieve's first greenlit original series ‘ID’ goes into production for Channel 4 later this year and she has projects in development with The Forge for BBC/Netflix, House, Bad Wolf and Warp Films.


About this season of workshops

To celebrate this year's Deaf awareness week we have curated an exciting 3 months of online workshops facilitated by leading Deaf artists across the UK. At CRIPtic, we wanted to celebrate artists creating incredible work in writing, dance, poetry & performance & our season is jam packed with free creative online sessions fully delivered in both British Sign Language and spoken English.

For the first time, we're programming a season for all deaf and disabled audiences, but entirely facilitated by Deaf artists. This coincides with Deaf awareness week 6-12th May. All events will be interpreted between BSL and spoken English, with autocaptions. BSL Interpreted & captioned.

Access Information

  • Auto-captions
  • Self Descriptions
  • BSL Interpretation
  • Comfort Breaks

About CRIPtic Arts

CRIPtic Arts exists to ignite disabled excellence across the arts. We provide active disabled leadership which advances world-class arts work with disabled creatives. From high-quality community activities to showcasing breakthrough performers; we’re blazing a revolution in accessibility.


Frequently asked questions

What is the access information for this event?

Auto-captions, Self Descriptions, BSL Interpretation and Comfort Breaks

Where do these workshops take place?

On Zoom! You will get an email before the workshop with a link to join.

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CRIPticArts

CRIPtic Arts exists to ignite disabled excellence across the arts

We provide active disabled leadership which advances world-class arts work with disabled creatives. From high-quality community activities to showcasing breakthrough performers; we’re blazing a revolution in accessibility.

We are a creatively courageous, accessibility-driven organisation, forging diverse disabled excellence, with community, ethics, and solidarity at the heart of our work.

When we talk about disabled people, we mean “people who face disableist [including audist] barriers”, or “people who identify themselves as deaf or disabled – or are identified by others as deaf or disabled in society”. We are also committed to supporting artists facing the highest barriers to opportunities, and/or whose access requirements are less likely to be met by other organisations.

In 2022, we were named as one of the 25 most influential disabled-led community organisations in the Disability Power 100.