About this Event
Word by Word x asmaa jama present a multi-disciplinary workshop where you will explore themes of land and climate anxiety, different forms of writing exercises, examples of different performance styles, and have created a sound piece at the end!
This workshop is part of Lyra Festival 2024 's Community Collabs events.
See below for details:
This workshop is open to new, aspiring and established writers. No prior writing experience necessary!
We particularly welcome black and people of colour to join.
Timing:
Please arrive at Watershed at 2:45pm.
The workshop will run from 3pm - 5pm, with x 2 breaks.
Workshop description:
What trace do we leave behind? What new worlds are possible out of the old? What would they sound like?
Join multidisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker Asmaa Jama for a creative writing workshop exploring themes of land and climate anxiety, through words, sound and performance.
While these themes are increasingly pertinent, our aim is that the workshop gives space both for acknowlegement and also hope.
The outcomes of this workshop are twofold:
1) Asmaa will work with you to write and find confidence in your work, and offer examples of different kinds of performance styles.
2) Asmaa will bring words and sounds that participants have chosen to record during the workshop together with music that Asmaa has made, to create a collective sound piece.
Within the week after the workshop, you will be sent a private soundcloud link to listen back to the soundpiece!
The workshop will feature (in order):
- Written exercises that encourage you to engage with the themes in a light touch way.
- Examples of some of the ways that written works can be performed, including demonstrations from Asmaa.
- A short break - for you to pause, and have the opportunity to take time to record sounds that will be used in the soundscape, both in the workshop space and outside of the building (using voice notes).
- The opportunity to share any works you have written during the session (should you feel comfortable to do so).
- A second short break - for you to pause, while Asmaa pieces together your voice and sound recordings into a soundscape.
- A chance to listen to the soundscape and share reflections on it.
Ticket information:
We have 2 tickets types for this event, both are £PayAsYouFeel (from £0):
+ Ticket type 1: is open to black and people of colour only.
+ Ticket type 2: is open to all.
Aged 18 or over.
+ Let us know your accessibility needs! Our email is: [email protected], and we will do all we can to provide what you need!
+ Further information with directions on how to get to the workshop will be sent out closer to the time.
What to bring to the workshop:
+ If you're able, please bring a pen and notebook.
+ A phone that you can use to record (in voice notes of similar), if this available to you.
+ There will be some snacks available at the workshop, please let us know if you have any food allergies ahead of the workshop date (Watershed’s cafe will also be open.)
+ Feel free to bring already recorded sounds with you to the workshop to add into the soundscape!
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asmaa jama
Asmaa Jama is a Danish-Somali poet, artist and filmmaker based in Bristol.
Asmaa’s writing has been commissioned by Jerwood Arts, Hayward Gallery, Arnolfini and Ifa Gallery, Berlin. Their written works have been published in places like The Poetry Review, Nataal and Magma. In theatre, they have written for, and are performing in, Dorothee Munyaneza’s Mailles, and have written for Radouan Mrziga’s Akal.
Their first film work Before We Disappear (2021), was an interactive moving image piece commissioned by BBC Arts, followed by The Season of Burning Things (2021), in collaboration with Gouled Ahmed, commissioned by the Bristol Old Vic (2021) and Except this time nothing returns from the ashes (2022), commissioned by Spike Island. Their work has also been presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale in collaboration with the Goethe Institute and Theatre Neumarkt’s 100 Ways to Say We Programme (2021), and was the official selection at Blackstar Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival and Sharjah Film Platform 5 (2022).
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Word by Word
Word by Word is an online-first creative writing group created during lockdown as a space were new and aspiring writers could come together to support and encourage eachother. We have hosted writing workshops both online and in person, collaborating with leading writers from a range of literary disciplines including Inua Ellams, Ama Josephine Budge, Lola Olufemi, Nikesh Shukla, and Tom Stockley.
We host monthly online writing meets for our members.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Bristol, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00