Working with Community Vibe CIC in collaboration with Rosie Kay Dance Company. As assistant project co-ordinator, I am involved in working with service users and members of the public in devising a dance piece which addresses the stigma often surrounding mental health issues.
We will be performing this unique dance piece on July 23rd at The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome.
Funded by Legacy Trust UK, Arts Council England, Advantage West Midlands, this is a People Dancing project, part of West Midlands Culture Programme for London 2012
See Louise’s Family of the Grotesque as they seek their way to fame and fortune!
See the videos and place votes.
Louise’s newest work, a trilogy published by Chipmunka Publishing due out in paperback soon, dates to be announced
Tel: 07815 426 606
Email: louise@louiseland.co.uk
Cafe Laffacino, Comedy Fest
Margarett Rose Abri Cafe
Cheapside, Digbeth
October 6th
Twitchen's Topical Roundup, Comedy Fest
Red Lion, Hockley
October 8th
Funbags, Comedy Fest
Crescent Theatre
November 26th
LouDeemY Productions presents Laughter Lines Variety Night
Prince of Wales, Cambridge Street, Birmingham
Rhymes
Old Fire station, Highgate
October 14th
Pilot Light, Scratch Night
The Victoria, John Bright Street
October 16th
HOPE Charity Event
The Public, West Brom.
November 6th
National Poetry Slam, hosted by Mark Niel
Newhampton Theatre, Wolverhampton
November17th
Monologueslam UK - The Ultimate Actors Showcase Event
Yardbird, Birmingham
The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome
Working with Community Vibe CIC, funded by the Arts Council, I will be writing and performing in this exciting new play; research consultations take place March 31st, contact me for further details, performances in September, venue tbc and October, World Mental Health Day at The Chamber of Commerce
The following podcasts are available at Black Country Podcasting for download.
Click the quick links to listen...
Hear some of Louise's poetry including:
Epilogue, Inside Out, The Wrong Path, Dilemma, Feeling Better, Pictures and Celestine's Beans.
A feature on the theme of bullying with extracts from her book, Marooned, published by Kateshill Press.
Louise reads a short story, The Faery Dust Letters. A story about Lilac Rainbow.
Two poems by Louise; Epilogue and Bread.
Below are all of my current publications. I’ve always got a couple in the pipeline so keep checking back. There are links to purchase the books if you would like to. Go to the bottom left of this page to read some excerpts from my books.
A journey through bullying using poetry as the guide. marooned is the compelling story of one woman’s survival.
Cost: £3.00
ISBN: 978 1 904552 19 2
Kimmy Sue Anne, from the rough, tough streets of Dudley’s Kates Hill, overlooked as it is by the town’s ancient castle, waxes lyrical about her love of ancient military edifices.
Cost: £3.00
ISBN: 978 1 904552 22 2
In addition to her serious acting and writing, Louise is passionate about humour and comedy both as forms of entertainment and as powerful tools to keep us mentally, physically and spiritually healthy.
As a character comedian, she prefers to deliver her humour hidden behind tons of bizarre make up, costume and characterisation. She performs a whole family of larger than life, but unnervingly recognisable characters, including Kimmy Sue Ann, her street comedy poet who performs regularly (some would say constantly) in Birmingham and the Midlands, as well as making forays further out to London, Glastonbury, the Forest of Dean, Hereford, Derby, Liverpool, and the Edinburgh Fringe.
Other popular family members include Nicola Goff-the-Goth, Great Uncle Dirk o’t’dea, Nan Roz Coalstead, Aunt Pamela Mary Crabfish, , and little sister Lucietta Lollipop, with many others constantly threatening to cruel out of the wood work. (Or is it the wood worm?).
Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Hull, Leamington, Shropshire have all been treated to visits from various family members.
Her personal experience of being bullied to within an inch of her life by in her former existence as a nurse left her with loads of comedy material but no sense of humour whatsoever. Her subsequent vow to remain serious, pessimistic and depressed about the world and those within it for the rest of her life, came to a premature close when her sense of humour unexpectedly returned and she decided to turn tragedy into comedy and live off the proceeds.
Nicola Goff (the goth)
Great Uncle Dirk o't'Dea
Kimmy Sue Anne
As Company Secretary with Award winning Theatre and Arts In Health Company Community Vibe CIC, Louise’s roles also include writer, actor, project co-ordinator and sessional worker. The creative work with Community Vibe is varied and innovative, including theatre, dance and arts projects which aim to help change people’s lives for the better.
As a member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers Louise is a practicing Spiritual Healer, and has completed her second Degree Reiki Healer training. She believes that Faeries, Angels and all of her Guardians have guided her through the dark tunnels of life and led her out into the Light of a better world.
Louise writes and performs all her own work as well running drama and creative workshops for both children and adults of all ages and backgrounds .
As a freelance artist, most of her work is issue-based and awareness raising, using both humour and serious social comment through the mediums of literature and drama to try and challenge perceptions which are discriminatory, prejudiced, ignorant, or just plain unhelpful.
Her previous background has given her the opportunity to use her drama and writing training and skills to work creatively with people experiencing mental health issues, as well as with a variety of other people from many different backgrounds.
Pamela Mary Crabfish
Roz Coalstead (Nan)
COMPETITIONS
COMEDY CLUBS
FESTIVALS
This a powerful novel of self discovery which explores the pressure to comply and the spirit of individuality, and culminates dramatically as the two clash and only one can prevail.
Cost: £8.00
ISBN: 978 1 904552 30 7
Meet the whole family... Kimmy Sue Anne, Nan, Great Uncle Dirk, Nicola Goff, Pamela Mary Crabfish, Celestine, Arthur Striner Turner and Jean-Stefan de le Broadbean d’Urse au Mange Tout.
Cost: £3.00
ISBN: 978 1 904552 27 7
I have written and perfomed many plays with various groups, as well as my own one-woman plays. As with everything that I do the theatre work always has a key underlying message for health, education or community and aims to raise awareness of a variety of issues.
As well as working freelance I work with other theatre companies. You can see us in costume in the photos to the right.
Nine is a collection of nine short stories, each one looking at a different aspect of the human condition, from the depths of despair to the heights of ecstasy, from the very best to the very worst in human behavior.
Cost: £7.00
ISBN: 978-1-906357-35-1
Both Reiki and the National Federation of Spiritual Healing(NFSH) are forms of Natural Healing. They are Natural therapies whereby healing energy is channelled by the healer through to the healee.
Everyone is made of energy and when that energy is unbalanced in some way, it can result in illness or stress. The healer, calling in the energy from its 'source' simply channels it through and each individual's own inner wisdom then ensures the energy is sent where it is most needed. Since the energy knows where it needs to go, the healer does not need to know what may be troubling a healee, although if it helps to talk, then the healer is there to listen.
I work as a volunteer for the NFSH at Rushall Community Centre, which is free of charge, but welcomes donations to help cover overheads..for details access or call Sandy Edwards on 01922 627346.
I also offer private healing sessions, either NFSH, or Reiki, and again, I do not charge for this service, instead I suggest that healees may like to give a donation to something or somewhere that is meaningful to them, only if they wish to of course!
Enquiry Form
If you would like to contact Louise please use the details below or the form to the right.
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Other Contacts
Please use the following form to send Louise a message:
Community Vibe:
Rachel Green: 07772 572 060
Kateshill Press:
Visit the Kateshill Press website for details.
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The Lilac Rainbow concept began in the Faerie Dust Letters, which have been transformed into a novel, Faerie Dust (see the bookshelf on the right of the page).
The Lilac Rainbow Faerie Oracle is a deck of faery oracle cards for divination that have been created from watercolour paintings that I have done over the last few years.
I am working on the project with Russell Goffe. Together we are ascertaining the meanings within the cards and writing readings and poetry to depict them.
As with 'Faerie Dust', the oracle cards deal with understanding the relationship between the psychological and spiritual sides of life, which can become confusing and cause much suffering.
We all deal with this side of our Self at some point and tools like symbolism can bring understanding and guidance.
Left: Image taken from Measure to Measure with Rogue Play Theatre Company. Visit their site at www.rogueplay.co.uk.
Community Vibe is a one stop arts company catering for all needs, providing positive arts projects that can make an impact on social change and promote diversity.A main aim is inclusion into arts for those groups who can often be excluded for whatever reason; age, disability, social background, health etc. Community Vibe is run by Rachel Green. Check out the site for clips, blogs and lots of other stuff.
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