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Lapidus Cornwall email: lapiduscornwall@yahoo.com
Lapidus Cornwall recently delivered a programme of exciting events under the theme of Wonderful Words as part of the National Year of Reading Initiative. Please see below the current programme of Whats ON in this region. Download the most recent committee meeting minutes click here (.doc file) HobnobsLapidus Cornwall members organise regular 'hobnobs' in members' homes. Members come together, share a writing or related activity and discuss aspects of practice. The meetings are structured but informal and may involve biscuits Members: donation of £2 towards coffee, please Non-members: £5. Places are limited - booking ESSENTIAL If you would like to host a hobnob, contact the co-ordinators at lapiduscornwall@yahoo.com Writing GroupsFalmouth Poetry Group was founded thirty years ago, by Penelope Shuttle and the late Peter Redgrove. It meets fortnightly for critical workshops, and acts as a discussion forum for work-in-progress. We still follow the workshop method used by The Group founded by Philip Hobsbaum, of which Redgrove was a founder member. See www.falmouthpoetrygroup.org.uk for more details. Words and MeaningsWhy a Hob Nob? 'Hob-nob' once had another entirely different meaning, now obsolete - 'hit or miss' or 'give and take' from 'to have or not have', from the Anglo-Saxon 'habben' have, and 'nabben' not to have. 'Hab' and 'nab' survive in the dialects of Devon and West Somerset in the phrases 'hab or nab','hab nab' and 'habs-nabs', meaning 'get or lose, hit or miss, succeed or fail'. Today's modern 'drink with' meaning of 'hob nob' derives from the custom of pubs having a 'hob' in the fireplace on which to warm the beer, and a small table at which to sit cosily called a 'nob', hence 'hob and nob'. By Shakespeare's day the phrase hob, nob had progressed from its literal meaning of 'to have or have not' to mean 'give and take'. Another shift of meaning occurred around 1750 when 'hob or nob', 'hob a nob', or 'hob and nob' came to refer to two people drinking toasts to each other alternately or taking wine with each other with clinking of glasses. There is also an obscure noun, a 'hob-nob', which is a toast used when hobnobbing. In Britain, Hobnob is a brand of biscuit or cookie. The next change of meaning came around 1850 when hobnob lost its specific reference to alcohol but retained its connotations of intimacy, good-fellowship and close companionship Past EventsPrompted to Write - Three Years of Words for Well-Being
Lapidus Cornwall launched an exciting new book in September 2007 at Truro Waterstones.
Prompted to Write contains articles, poems and stories by over 30 contributors who participated in a three year lottery-funded series of workshops and training events. Some of the contributors are renowned in the field of reading and writing for health and well-being. For other contributors, the book contains their first published piece of writing.
Previous WorkshopsSurvive and Shine!- Working with Young People led by Claire Williamson, author of Ride On, a narrative, autobiographical book of poems. Her essay, ‘Working with Young People. Survive and Shine’ appears in ‘Poetry, Therapy and Emotional Life’ by Diana Hedges. Loss of Dreams led by Ted Bowman, a US National Association of Poetry Therapy trainer A Workshop with John Killick
Colour me a hobnob workshop led by Moira Andrew, September 2008
Hobnob news
A Lottery-funded Words for Well-being programmeincluded:
Zeeba Ansari undertook marketing and administration, which has greatly facilitated communication, and the use of some of our training funds subsidised travel for Lapidus Cornwall members to the national conference in Cirencester. The following people gave 10 minute Floorspots:
Committee & ContactsIf you would like more information or minutes of meetings, email lapiduscornwall@yahoo.com Caroline Carver - ChairMoira Andrew - SecretaryVictoria Field - TreasurerLapidus Cornwall is its members so do get in touch with ideas for future activities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
During the three years programme, Lapidus Cornwall worked with a variety of partners including the Peninsula Medical School, Mount Edgecumbe Hospice, Cornwall Care, Arts for Health, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly and University College, Falmouth
The book is edited by Zeeba Ansari from Truro and Victoria Field from Falmouth, both local writers with experience in running writing groups. The foreword is by acclaimed contemporary poet, Moniza Alvi, who describes the book as 'luminous'.
The evening at Waterstones was lively and included 
Prompted to Write is available directly from Lapidus Cornwall (send a cheque for £4.50 plus £1 pp payable to Lapidus Cornwall to 2, Burley Court, New Street, Falmouth TR11 3HJ), from bookshops and www.amazon.co.uk
It is published by fal: ISBN: 978-0-9544980-9-2