The Still Room runs a curated programme of events and workshops – drawing on the quality of the space, the particular character of Keswick Hall, and a community of outstanding practitioners and makers in Norfolk. The sessions are designed to offer something genuinely worthwhile: time to make, to listen, to draw, to move, to develop – in a setting that takes the work seriously. All abilities and levels of experience are welcome.
Acting Masterclass Season – Autumn 2026
- Working with Shakespeare’s Language with Kirsty Bushell, Sun 4 Oct
- Music and Listening Masterclass for Actors with Jules Maxwell, Sun 11 Oct
- Musical Theatre Audition Masterclass with Phil Cornwell & Ashleigh Harvey, Sat 17 Oct
- Shakespeare Monologues with Kirsty Bushell, Sun 1 Nov
- Verbatim Theatre with Joseph Arkley, Sun 8 Nov
- Shakespeare Duologues with Kirsty Bushell, Sun 22 Nov
- Acting for Camera with Joseph Arkley, Sat 28 Nov
- Getting Comfortable in the Uncomfortable with Matti Houghton, Sat 5 Dec
- Acting Through Intention with Matti Houghton, Sat 12 Dec
Regular Workshops and Events at The Still Room
Life Drawing
Sunday Mornings
10.30am to 12.30pm
£25 per session inc VAT
A monthly taught life drawing session at Keswick Hall, guided by an experienced tutor, with a different live model and focus each time.
There is something particular about a Sunday morning. The building is quiet, the light at Keswick Hall falls clean and unhurried across the room, and that quality of stillness tends to carry into the work itself. Each session begins fresh: a new model, a new set of constraints, a different invitation to look closely and respond honestly.
Your tutor will guide you through each session with clear instruction and individual feedback. All abilities and experience levels welcome. Materials are provided, or bring some of your own if you choose.
2026 dates:
- 13 September
- 27 September
- 25 October
- 15 November
- 13 December
Sound Journey
Sunday Afternoons
3.00pm – 5.00pm
£25 per session inc VAT
Each session is beautifully designed specifically for the room and for the month: rooted in the seasons, the landscape and the particular character of Norfolk, its topography, its history, the quality of its light and its long, quiet stretches of land and water. Poetry and song are written for each occasion. Nothing is repeated. Nothing is generic.
You will be guided through breathwork and a short meditation before moving into an immersive sound bath, using a range of instruments chosen for the session. The experience is designed to slow the body, settle the mind and open a very different kind of attention.
2026 dates:
- 27 September
- 25 October
- 15 November
- 13 December
Print Making
Saturday Mornings
10.30am to 12.30pm
£25 per session inc VAT
A monthly printmaking session at Keswick Hall, guided by an experienced printmaker.
There is a particular moment in printmaking that is unlike anything else: the lifting of the block, the peeling back of the paper, the first sight of what you have made. You cannot entirely predict it. That is part of what makes it worth doing.
Each session is open to everyone. No experience is needed and no particular outcome is expected. You will be guided through the process, supported at every stage, and given the space to work at your own pace. The atmosphere is relaxed and the guidance is skilled. What emerges is entirely yours.
2026 dates:
- 19 September
- 24 October
- 7 November
- 19 December
2027 dates (10am – 12pm):
23 January, 27 February, 20 March, 24 April, 29 May, 26 June, 24 July, 21 August, 25 September, 23 October, 27 November, 18 December
BookYin Yoga & Sound Bath
Saturdays
2.00pm – 4.00pm
£25 per session inc VAT
Yin Yoga & Sound Bath with Gongs
Slow down, soften, and let the sound do the rest. This session opens with an hour of yin yoga, holding gentle, supported postures to release tension held deep in the body and quiet a busy mind.
We then move into a sound bath, where the rich, resonant tones of gongs wash over you, guiding you into deep relaxation and stillness.
No experience necessary. All levels welcome. Bring a mat, blanket, and anything that helps you get warm and comfortable, you’ll be lying down for the second half.
2026 dates:
- 7 November
- 19 December
2027 dates:
23 January, 27 February, 20 March, 24 April, 29 May, 26 June, 24 July, 21 August, 25 September, 23 October, 27 November, 18 December
BookActing for Confidence
Confidence through Acting
You walk into a room and make yourself smaller. Or you’ve wondered for years whether acting might help, but it seems terrifying to find out.
Perhaps it’s the same old feedback you keep hearing, a change in life that has knocked you, a comment that stuck, and you’ve never had anywhere to properly explore what that means and how to move forward, until now. This is the space to try it all out.
Research into confidence consistently shows: doing is what builds it, not being told to feel it. That just makes things worse.
Using acting exercises, guided activities, and time to reflect, working with a highly experienced acting coach and a psychotherapist in the room.
Led by Jacqueline Silver and Catherine England Johnson. Jacqueline is the founder and director of The Still Room, trained as an actor in London and qualified to teach at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, with nearly thirty years of experience in education, coaching and the arts. Catherine is UKCP Accredited Psychoanalytical Psychotherapist with over thirty years of clinical experience. She is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists, and Spotlight.
Get in touch to have an initial conversation and explore how we might work with you.
Acting for Confidence
Imposter Syndrome
You’ve done the thing. Got the job, passed the exam, earned the praise. And some part of you still thinks it was luck, or timing, or that nobody’s looked closely enough yet.
For anyone who has succeeded and still feels like it was an accident, who over-prepares to cover a doubt no one else can see, and has never had anywhere to properly explore what that means. And for anyone who has simply wondered, for years, whether the voice in their head is telling the truth. This is that space to try it all out.
Using acting exercises, guided activities, and time to reflect, working with a highly experienced acting coach and a psychotherapist in the room.
By the end, you’ll have real evidence, not just a feeling, that the voice has been wrong before. That’s what you take with you.
Get in touch to have an initial conversation and explore how we might work with you.
The Critical Studio: a day for Artists, Actors, Musicians & Writers.
Saturday 21st November 2026
10.30am – 3.30pm
Calling artists, actors, writers and musicians. This is a day for creatives to come together, using talks and conversation to explore how theory can shape your practice.
Where theory stops being homework and starts being a creative instrument.
A day of short talks and long conversations for people who make things and want to think about why. Structuralism on arrival. A critique of ideology over coffee. Psychoanalysis before lunch. These ideas already show up in your practice whether you invited them or not – this is a chance to get properly acquainted.
Afternoon tea brings open exchange, work-sharing, and the kind of cross-pollination that only happens when an artist, writer, actor, director, a poet, and a musician are turning over the same idea from uniquely different angles.
Your facilitator is Dr Mark Hobbs of UEA.
Le Relais at The Still Room
Saturday Evenings
7.00pm – 9.30pm
Le Relais was an arts club set up and run between 2013 and 2019 by composer Jules Maxwell, dance artists Charlotte Darbyshire and Henrietta Hale and film maker Tony Wadham when they all lived at Relais de la Baie in Noyelles Sur Mer, Northern France.
At Le Relais people came to share food, music, dance, film and ideas. The word “relais” comes from the old French word “relaissier” (to abandon, release).
In earlier times, a Relais was a place where riders could stop to switch from tired horses to fresh ones in order to continue their journey.
Le Relais at The Still Room is an opportunity to experience the concept anew in the delightful surroundings of The Still Room.
BookAuthentic & Experiential Movement
Coming Soon.
Saturdays
Get in touch to find out more and register interest.
Independent Sessions
If you would like to discuss using the space to run your own session or series and feel it would be a good fit for the space, please get in touch.
