The Outsiders Project: Writers on Writing with Kate Beales

Overview

Join us for the next session in our workshop series, Writers on Writing, hosted by The Outsiders Project at TOSH. The Outsiders Project runs workshops throughout the year with marginalised communities in Boscombe. This workshop series is open to anyone who identifies with the Outsider Artist Criteria below. If you have any questions, please contact our Community Project Coordinator, Caroline, at caroline.bjohnson@recreatedorset.co.uk.

About this Workshop

Between November 2025 and May 2026, professional writers visit TOSH to discuss their pathways, inspirations and practice, answer questions about the writing process, and lead practical workshops on specific aspects of writing.

This session features Kate Beales, a novelist, director and theatre maker with an extensive background in teaching and creative facilitation. Kate has worked with the Learning Department at the National Theatre in London for more than thirty years. She spent twenty years as a visiting professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in London, teaching Storytelling and Studies in Shakespeare.

As a freelance director and theatre maker, Kate creates shows and arts projects for children, young people and communities. She teaches writing and devising for performance, collaborates with playwrights, edits scripts and supports students of all ages with their creative writing.

Kate has been an Associate Artist with Project Phakama, where she worked with refugees in Paris and Athens. Her projects have included a performance created by toddlers in a giant bed, and award winning storytelling and photography work involving pop up darkrooms and pinhole cameras.

She is currently developing writing, storytelling and theatre projects with wounded veterans through The Drive Project. Recent work includes Stories of Service, performed by veterans at the British Museum. Kate is also part of the Routes for Women facilitation team, working with female refugees and asylum seekers.

Her novel, Broken Horses, was published by Linen Press this year.

About Kate Beales

Kate Beales is a novelist, director and theatre maker with a long standing relationship with the National Theatre in London. She has taught Storytelling and Studies in Shakespeare for New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in London and has supported writers and performers across a wide range of ages and backgrounds.

Her work spans theatre making, script editing, community projects, refugee engagement, veteran led performance and innovative visual storytelling. She continues to develop creative work that brings people together to explore identity, narrative and lived experience.

Her novel Broken Horses explores themes of rebellion, love and resilience.

About the Outsiders Project

The Outsiders Project began with a performance created for BEAF Arts Co Festival in 2018. Four artists who had previously taken part in writing workshops came together to make a site specific storytelling show combining words and music. Every word was written, spoken and performed by the artists themselves.

Since then, The Outsiders Project has grown into a project shaped by the artists it supports. It has produced performances, toured to prisons and created publications and exhibitions. The project focuses on amplifying the voices of people who are unheard and marginalised. Work is first shared locally before being taken to wider audiences.

Outsiders Project Workshops

The Outsiders Project runs free creative writing and photography workshops throughout the year with marginalised communities in Boscombe. These workshops help participants develop skills, confidence and self belief.

Outsider Artist Criteria

Workshops are open to anyone over 18 who has been sidelined from society and whose voice has not been heard. The Outsiders Project welcomes participants who have experienced challenges such as physical limitations, addiction, low income, domestic or sexual abuse, homelessness or insecure housing, leaving care or prison, institutional abuse, displacement or seeking asylum, or long term use of mental health services.

See more information at gotbeaf.co.uk

Getting to TOSH

If you are coming by foot or by bus, take the M2 bus and get off near Boscanova if travelling from Southbourne, or the stop after Aldi if coming from Poole or Bournemouth. If you are coming by car, we recommend parking in the Sovereign Centre car park. There is limited free on site parking at TOSH which is first come, first served.

Pokesdown for Boscombe train station is a 15 to 20 minute walk to TOSH along Christchurch Road.

TOSH has accessible toilets and kitchen facilities. If you have any access needs you would like to let us know about, please email contact@toshspace.co.uk.

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