Angel, a film by Nigel Moffatt

Local playwright, poet and musician whom I first worked with at Castle Vale radioin 2000, the editor of MultiCutural magazine also published extracts of my book, Faerie Dust, were published. He was actually my mentor when writing this book.

We shot Angel at Easter and the film is now completed and under distribution . It's been brilliant making it I have to say, and great fun when trying to do some of the location scenes in pubs, or parks or the street... even a taxi.

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This video clip is actually a music video using some of the footage from the film.

To view a second music video, featuring further film footage, visit

www.youtube.com/MoffiMedia and click onto More Videos from this Channel

Louise writes and performs her work and runs drama and creative workshops for both children and adults. She is co-director of Black Country based Fizzog Theatre Company.

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.

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.

She currently lives in Handsworth Wood, with her husband Robin, four sons, and four crazy cats

Faerie joy

The most important part of the Faerie Day

Includes laughter, party, fun and play

Dwelling on tears and dark dismay

Is really not in the spirit of Fey

Quick and nimble, bursts of Light

Shining in the day, glowing in the night

Elf or Gnome, Faerie or Sprite

Life is one round of sheer delight

If you glimpse them, hold this thought...

You have been honoured by the sight you sought

Since a Faerie sighting can never be bought

Nor can a Faerie ever be caught

But seeing them will set you free

And freedom gives you the sight to see

That you can be who you want to be

I know this is true...it happened to me!

A journey through bullying using poetry as the guide.

MAROONED charts a course through that process of bullying. It isn’t about the bullies as such. While it is important that the existence of bullies in our public services is broadcast, MAROONED is above all the compelling story of one woman’s survival.

American psychologist Martha Stout, author of The Sociopath Next Door has written, “living well is the best form of revenge.” Bullies do not like people who are truly alive and beyond their power. In writing MAROONED, Louise Stokes has shown them that she is now living well.

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You can hear extracts from Marooned in the podcasts area below.

BA in Philosophy and Politics

1984 - Training in Birmingham as a psychiatric nurse.

Individual and Family Counselling

MA in Sociological Research in Health Care

Diploma in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing.

Theatre studies course at Birmingham Theatre School in 2000.

HND in Community Theatre at Dudley College.

Open Access Theatre Course, Certificate of Credit

Reiki Natural Healing First Degree 2005, Second Degree 2006

National Federation of Spiritual Healing (NFSH) Healer Training Parts 1-4

Kateshill Press

Tel: 07815 426 606 (Me)

  01384 816 280 (Fizzog)

E-mail: louise@louiseland.co.uk

SYNOPSIS

The reader is invited to accompany 'Sally' on a journey through the physical, spiritual and ethereal experiences of her life, as she leaves behind the familiar and embarks upon a quest to find out who she really is and what meaning her existence has.

Through letters to her family, her journal entries and her poems, the reader learns about Sally's hopes, dreams, fears, failures and achievements, as she travels from her conventional beginnings to her unexpected destination. As we learn about Sally's relationships with beings from other dimensions, (Faeries, spirit guides etc),as well as those of the physical world, and how her past affects them, we are invited to question for ourselves whether we are witnessing Sally's 'crazy' world as she heads for a breakdown, or a spiritual experience in which she truly believes.

This novel is aimed at exploring the idea of questioning ourselves in terms of illusion and delusion. Are dreams any less real than waking experiences; Are disembodied (or indeed 'embodied') voices which give reassurances, comfort, hope and unconditional love any more imaginary than a telephone conversation? Is a vision less real than physical people, especially if those voices and visions comfort and guide us, whilst their material counterparts criticise us and make us unhappy?

The end of Sally's journey (or Lilac Rainbow, as she has now become), whilst unexpected ,is a destination which we all at some point must contemplate….this story relates this particular woman's contemplations and some of her resulting conclusions.

Funded by Arts Council England

Faerie Dust was accepted for publication on September 6th 2007. NOW AVAILABLE VIA THIS SITE OR KATESHILLPRESS..

The Stepmother

A true pantomime villain, brought up to date, in a Fizzog anti-bullying drama based loosely on Cinderella.

Violet

A Pitbank Wench. A down to earth, hardworking Black Country wench (not averse to the odd fight with her sisters!) at the turn of the last Century, part of Fizzog's historical drama work with the Black Country Museum.

FAMILY OF THE GROTESQUE *

*Kimmy Sue Anne

Teenage Chav pwoet, who makes social comment, innit, within her writings.

Click here to visit Community Vibe and see a clip of Kimmy.

*Nicola Goff

Kimmy Sue's Goth cousin who writes and 'sings' her own brand of gloomy songs.

*Nan..Roz Coalstead

Roz, Nan to Kimmy Sue and Nicola.

*Great Uncle Dirk O' T' Dea

A bad tempered old git who hates all young people,brother of Nan Roz's late long deceased husband Stanley…and thinks his dreadful jokes constitute stand up comedy

*Arthur Stringer Turner

Second Cousin twice removed. Angry Young Man Wannabe

*Jean-Stefan Broadbean De La Hurst au Mange Tout

Young French Artist, intended groom-to-be of Nan Roz Coalstead

*Celestine

 Some long distant aunt or other.A bizarre philosopher of all things trivial.

Claire

A fictional receptionist in a fictional hospital who has no social skills. Fizzog's mental health trust awareness training piece 'Violins at Dawn' uses this character to explore bad practice.

Joanne

Another character from 'Violins at Daw'n. Joanne is a woman in hospital experiencing eating difficulties. She shows the audience that people are still human beings and should be treated as such, whatever problems they may be trying to overcome

Angelica

A seven year old in Fizzog's 'All in the Balance', a piece commissioned by Dudley Health Promoting Schools to explore healthy living issues through the use of a 'Blue Remembered Hills' style comedy piece

Iris

Life as a child during the second world war is explored through the eyes of three elderly women, including Iris, whom we see as a child and as she is today, in Fizzog's piece 'Idle Women'

Sally

This nurse demonstrates bad practice in Fizzog's Sexual Health Education piece for health professionals, and then gives the audience the opportuniyt to alter her practice for the better by means of forum theatre

Angel

The actress in the film of the same name.

Kimberly Knight

The most inept, 'un-pc' interviewer you will ever watch! See the DVD from Multicultural magazine Issues 1,2 and 3

Helena

A woman escapes a domestic violence situation only to be confronted by her ex-husband a year later in Fizzog's intense Domestic Violence awareness play, 'A Rock and a Hard Place'

Joan

A Black Country woman is encouraged to question her prejudices about other cultures in Fizzog's Community Cohesion piece 'The Good, the bad and the balti'

Sharon

A reluctant user of women's health care services in Fizzog's awareness-raising pieces , 'Slide Show', and 'Slide Show II'

Candy

A hypochondriac who wants every health test going in this comic piece of awareness raising drama, again around women's health care, but specifically designed for women within the Asian community. Originally called From Smear to Eternity, Fizzog's play eventually went to performance re-named 'Blossoms and mangos'

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!

To find out how I made my journey along this path, click the link and scroll to the right to read extracts from my spiritual biography,

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.

www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/948079 

www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/1222604 

www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/689708 

www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/529090

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of these poems and stories

Kimmy Sue Anne video clip

See Kimmy Sue Anne clip at www.communityvibe.co.uk, the website of my good friend Rachel Green. Click here to see the video. 

Kimmy Sue Anne in press, Birmingham Mail, August 1st 2008

NOW AVAILABLE!'The Forts of Kimmy Sue Anne' and 'Conversations with the Family of the Grotesque' Go to Kateshillpress website, or type into Google for details and purchase. ALSO FAERIE DUST THE NOVEL

Coming soon NINE...a collection of short stories published by Wrote Under publishing Co-Op

Switching on the Light.

Telephone: 07815 426 606

Email: louise@louiseland.co.uk

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Fizzog is a community theatre company specialising in Theatre-In-Education, Theatre-In-Health and issue-based projects within non-theatre settings. We work with a comprehensive cross-section of the community from pre-school to senior citizenship on an intercultural basis, using performance and workshop techniques to explore, raise awareness and tackle issues in an entertaining, non-threatening and informative way.

All of our projects are originally commissioned by professional bodies who we work closely with to develop informed and thought provoking performance based projects on a diversity of issues. Our current range of projects cover the following range of issues:

Sexual Health, Citizenship, Senior Safety, Domestic Violence, Intercultural and Race Relations, Rape And Sexual Assault, Mental Health, Social Inclusion, Managing Difficult Behaviour, Bullying, Eating Disorders.

All members have experience in working with a wide variety of groups including excluded young people, probation and prison services, youth groups, primary and secondary schools, people with learning support needs and general audiences. The company also write, devise and perform alternative and mainstream theatre.

All of our projects are suitable for performance in non theatre spaces and carry no special technical requirements.

Visit www.fizzogtheatre.co.uk

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