About this Event
Aye Thrive: Visualising the Landscape
Calling new and seasoned poets looking for an experimental space to write and draw the landscape with guided exercises to prompt eco-poetry. Come along with an open mind and use the arts to express your climate anxieties in this writing and zine-making workshop. No experience with writing poetry or zine-making is required.
Eco-Poetry and Zine making
Join Alice Eaves, a community-engaged writer and artist living and working in Edinburgh. She is Editor-in-Chief of the translated poetry chapbook 'Tiny Flames' forthcoming with Forest Publications, recipient of a Peshkar Artist Development Award and a Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature virtual writer in residence. She holds an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh.
This session will last 3 hours. If you have any questions about this workshop, please free to get in touch. Contact details below.
Meeting point: The Scottish Storytelling Centre (Library), 43-45 High St, Edinburgh EH1 1SR
Meeting time: 12:00
What to bring: crafting materials, pens, pencils, anything you would like to use
What will be provided: art supplies will be provided for those who don't have, along with tea, coffee and biscits
1 8+ | Open Access | No prior knowledge required
Contact: [email protected], or IG @aye_thrive
More details will be sent out closer to the workshop from [email protected] - keep an eye out for emails that may end up in your spam box.
This is a Spit it Out (SiO) community event held by the.
Spit it Out is an award-winning organisation (SCIO) dedicated to opening conversations around consent, mental health and healing through creativity, accountability and community care. We realise the overarching goals of our project by collaborating with our community in delivering free activities and resources to learn together. We work on creating lasting change in our community through an intersectional Transformative Justice lens.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 5.00