The Alpine Fellowship and The Outsiders Project
The Outsiders Project is an organisation that gives voice to the unheard and marginalised through working with outsider artists and supporting their creativity. Their vision is to show that people side lined from society can write, perform and create work at the highest level. They support the outsider community to push boundaries to prove they can create work of outstanding quality and worth.
The Alpine Fellowship will work collaboratively with The Outsiders Project to mentor emerging outsider artists who are writing prose, poetry and drama. Mentors will be Jane Feaver and Damian Le Bas, and this project is managed under the guidance of playwright, novelist and Advisory Board member Nell Leyshon.
Meet the Mentors
Jane Feaver
Jane Feaver is a novelist and short story writer. According to Ruth (Harvill Secker, 2007), was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award and the Dimplex Prize; Love Me Tender (Harvill Secker, 2009) was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Crazy is due from Corsair in 2021. Jane is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.
Damien Le Bas
Damian Le Bas is a writer. His first book, The Stopping Places: a Journey through Gypsy Britain, won the Somerset Maugham award, a Jerwood award, was Radio 4 Book of the Week and shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman travel book of the year. His next book, The Drowned Places, will be published by Chatto & Windus. Damian is a regular BBC broadcaster and presented the critically acclaimed BBC 4 film A Very British History: Romany Gypsies. Damian read theology at St John's College, Oxford and is a native speaker of the Romany (Gypsy) language.
“The Outsiders Project is a genuine route into writing and performing for people who wouldn't otherwise find their way into it. It's a magic world for a lot of people. Especially people who've had tough lives. Lives out of the arts. Outside the enchanted wall. The Outsiders Project is about breaking the spell. Smashing down the wall.”
Damian Le Bas, writer of The Stopping Places, A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
Gallery
We’re proud to share some photographs from our recent theatre sharing.
