RE/MEDIATIONS vision workshop with Mira Mattar Event
- Time:
- 11:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 22 June 2022
- Venue:
- Avenue Campus Confucius Boardroom, Room 2123, Avenue Campus Building 65.
Event details
RE/MEDIATIONS in conjunction with Entropics: vision workshop with Mira Mattar.
Come to listen, write, and rethink with two of the most exciting new voices in UK poetry. Bridging performance and practice, digital and physical, critical and creative readings, this exciting summer series of workshops and readings has been co-organised with Southampton's English Department and the Winchester School of Art, and will be co-hosted by John Hansard Gallery and the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.
Schedule
11am - 1pm Workshop 1: Vision
An open form, practical, writing workshop on observation and imagination. We will make studies of objects, creatures, places, memories and actions. All you need is a notebook and pen!
Please register via separate event for the afternoon workshop as detailed below:
3pm - 5pm Workshop 2: Voice
An open form, practical, writing workshop on style, narration and collective authorship. We will experiment with exercises around the self and writing, authority and intersubjectivity. No experience necessary!
This series of poetry of workshops will conclude with a poetry reading on Thursday 23rd June: Re/Mediations at John Hansard Gallery, 6.30-8.30pm. More details and sign up available soon.
Speaker information
Mira Mattar, writes fiction and poetry. She is an independent researcher, editor, and tutor. Her novel, Yes, I Am A Destroyer was published in 2020 by Ma Bibliothèque and her chapbook, Affiliation, was published in 2021 by Sad Press. Her first collection of poems, The Bow, was recently published by The 87 Press. A new chapbook is forthcoming from Veer2. She regularly reads her work in the UK and abroad. Mira lives and works in London.