A weekly, in-person, embodied voice workshop for anyone interested in exploring their vocal capacity particularly in relation to embodied movement.
I have trained with Alessio Castellacci & Irena Tomasin (The World is Sound) for over a decade and, more recently, with Kate Smith (The Embodied Voice) to re-integrate my voice within my body. As a teenager, I sang in multiple choirs and achieved my Grade 7 singing exams with merit only to start to lose my voice when I came to perform. My formal voice training taught me to freeze my body. My voice followed suit. I came to a freer relationship with my voice through embodied performance in my mid thirties and was profoundly impressed not only by how my body remembered so much of its vocal training but how expansive and grounding it was to bring the body into play as an active collaborator. This is what I hope to offer in these sessions.
This group is designed to settle you into your self, to expand your creative capacity and confidence, to bring you back together. Each session will let your voice play in and out of the movement and sensation, to re-integrate your body and voice, to explore what combinations arise from your particular body as a soloist and in relation to the group. We will start slowly and gently, tuning into sound and movement within your body and gradually expanding into playful combination with the group.
Sessions run from Fri 11th Sep until Fri 16th Oct.
Please arrive at 9.45am to settle yourself in the space before the session starts at 10am.
£20 a session / £60 for a six week block.
Very small group. Places are limited.
forthcoming…
I am delighted to announce my fourth poetry book is forthcoming
from Knives Forks & Spoons Press (Alec Newman)
due to hit bookshelves in January 2027,
with thanks to Arts Council England.
Get it on your Christmas lists!
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Camilla offers mentoring for poets, artists and researchers in Creative Writing, Experimental Poetry, Performance, Interdisciplinary Arts & Creative Ecological Approaches - online and in person. More info…
TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF LINE
~ online exhibition ~
from Carbon Bodies / Rachel Smith
SINGING APPLE PRESS STANDS WITH PALESTINE
On November 29th, writers from around the world will gather, for the third year, for a 24 hour reading in support of Palestinian writers, Palestinian voices in diaspora, and their allies. We gather in the spirit of fundamental respect for life and liberation. As individual poets, artists & writers, and representatives of independent arts organizations, we call for an end to all ongoing genocidal aggression globally. We condemn the collective punishment of Palestinians, we condemn actions that perpetuate cycles of violence, and we call for a global commitment to protect freedom of expression and critical dissent.
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Founded in 2014, Singing Apple Press is devoted to the material investigation of poem production, particularly in relation to plants. This small, West Country press produces hand-crafted, limited edition poem-prints, books, events, exhibitions and other language objects.
Camilla A Nelson is an artist, poet, small press publisher, creative programmer and freelance academic currently formulating her ideas into an "Experimental Ecology of Line". She has a PhD in Performance Writing from Falmouth University/Dartington College of Arts (2012) and teaches in person and online. Her work expands page-based poetry into mark-making, soundwork, installation and performance. She is founding editor of Singing Apple Press, a Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University and member of the PLACE Collective. Her fourth poetry collection, dedicated to the memory of John Hall and Dartington College of Arts, A Mending Piece (in four parts), will be published by Knives Forks & Spoons Press in November 2026.
