Sasha Bates
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Languages of Loss has been getting great coverage across different media.
Cheltenham Wellbeing Festival
Cheltenham Wellbeing Festival starts this week. On Saturday May 9th, I am being interviewed by Dipti Tait about Languages of Loss, and about all the new losses we are all experiencing thanks to Covid-19.
This feels like loss
Some random thoughts on how reminiscent this time of lockdown and isolation is to bereavement. Here are some lessons I learnt in the early days of grief that might be helpful now.
Online April Grief Workshop
“Finding Ways to Express Grief” – my one-day workshop for therapists will now be taking place online on its original date, April 18th, 2020.
Latest news about the Award and the book
Latest news about The Bill Cashmore Award and the publication of Languages of Loss in the light of the current Covid-19 situation.
The Bill Cashmore Award 2019: Screwdriver
In March 2019, we chose the first ever recipients of the first ever Bill Cashmore Award – writing partners Eve Cowley and Elin Schofield, recently graduated from Sheffield University. And I couldn’t have hoped for a more suitable pair to kick us off.
The Bill Cashmore Award 2020
In December 2019, forty-five applicants arrived on our desks, and were whittled down to twenty. These lucky twenty were given the opportunity, in February 2020, to perform a nine-minute Scratch piece revealing their idea, in front of a paying audience, at this year’s Evolution Festival.
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The Bill Cashmore Award 2019 and 2020 – latest news
Inaugural winners, Eve Cowley and Elin Schofield ended their year-long bursary in style by headlining this year’s Evolution Festival with their winning play Screwdriver, set in a women’s prison.