About this Event
To celebrate Poetry Day Ireland, you are invited to join us for a creative writing workshop exploring the relationship between poetry and visual art. A collaboration between Excite and Eastside Cinema, the workshop focuses on ekphrasis, the art of writing in response to visual material as a way of opening up creative expression and discovering new forms of poetic engagement. We will use writing prompts, poetic material, and curated clips from Jacques Tati’s film ‘Playtime’ to find inspiration, play with the interaction between word and image, and take part in the annual island-wide celebration of poetry and imagination.
Open to present and future poetry lovers - no experience needed, just an open mind and willingness to create!
28th May, 6-8pm, CCA Derry~Londonderry, 10-12 Artillery Street, BT48 6RG
Attendance free, booking essential
About the facilitator:
Katharina Maria Kalinowski is a poet, translator, and researcher. From 2017 to 2020, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the universities of Cologne, Kent, and Dublin, where she completed a creative-critical PhD on ecopoetics and ecotranslation. She taught Creative Writing at Düsseldorf University and facilitated writing workshops with organisations including Void, Ulster University, Repair & Share Foyle, and the NI Screen Digital Film Archive. In 2026, she was selected for the Irish Writers Centre New Voices: North and the DCSDC Arts and Cultural Practitioners Award. She has published poetry and criticism in magazines and journals including The Honest Ulsterman, Feminist Translation Studies, The Irish Poetry Reading Archive, and The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.
What people have said about her workshops:
‘Beautifully facilitated.’
'Brilliant! My inner writer has been set free.'
'Katharina facilitated “Writing From The Archive”, Northern Ireland Screen’s partnership event with the University of Ulster and part of the Northwest Learning City Region Lifelong Learning Festival. Using the film archives as a creative writing prompt is a new avenue for us and Katharina was excellent to work with. At the event, she was positive and encouraging, listening carefully to the participants and leading the process with empathy and thoughtful guidance. We would be delighted to work with Katharina again and highly recommend her as a public engagement facilitator. '
Brónagh McAtasney, NI Screen Digital Film Archive, Public Engagement Manager, Heritage & Education
NB: The film ‘Playtime’ will be publicly screened as part of the Waterside Together Festival, Woodburn Urban Park, Friday, 29th May, 6pm. Free entry – registration advised, but you can also just show up on the day!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Centre for Contemporary Art, 10–12 Artillery Street, Londonderry, United Kingdom
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