Creative writing workshop with Rebecca Beinart and Wallace Heim
FREE online event. BOOK HERE
Join us for a series of creative writing workshops to explore the local landscape from multiple points of view. These sessions are open to anyone who knows Crow Park, the Isthmus and Derwentwater, and no previous writing experience is necessary. The workshops will open up space to explore and reflect on our relationship with familiar landscapes and with the future, through imagination and story making. We’ll use a series of creative exercises to play with words and explore different viewpoints, including other-than-human perspectives and non-linear time. You’ll create your own short pieces of writing in each session.
You can sign up for all three sessions or just attend one.
We encourage you to visit Crow Park before the online workshops if possible. In each session we’ll invite you to bring something along as a starting point – please read the workshop descriptions for more details. There’s no pressure to share anything that you write, but we’ll talk about what comes up from each session.
Session 1: An archaeology of the future
Wednesday 10 March, 5.30-7.30pm
In this session we’ll use real and imagined objects as a starting point for our writing, and create an ‘archaeology of the future’ to think through different time frames. Bring a container of some kind – it could be a bowl, basket, plastic bag, glove, cup, plastic box, tool tray, glasses case, anything. If it’s something that’s hard to share through a screen, you can describe your object instead.
Other events in this series:
Discussion: Slippery time and other-than-human perspectives Thursday 3 March, 5.30-7pm
Workshop Session 2: Eating the landscape Wednesday 24 March, 5.30-7.30pm
Workshop Session 3: Writing a Crow Wednesday 7 April, 5.30-7.30pm
This event is part of Desire Lines, a place-based art commission at Crow Park in Keswick with Trust New Art, the National Trust’s programme of contemporary arts. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Through the project Rebecca Beinart is working with local communities to explore the site’s history and everyday uses, to collectively build stories for the future.
