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"Celebrate the legacy of queer joy and resilience throughout history in this writing workshop hosted by local poet, community activist and artist T.S.Idiot."
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A event on Saturday 2nd April. The event starts at 13:30.
This workshop is now sold out.
13:30 - 15:00pm. £5.
Joy Against The Machine: Writing from a place of queer joy, resilience and otherness
Join artist, poet and community activist T.S. IDIOT to share your thoughts on using queer joy as a form of resistance and what that means to us, our writing, and centuries of outsiders (from Virginia Woolf to Ocean Vuong). Learn to write from a place of joy and resilience rooted in our collective queerness and the experience of anyone who has felt othered or outside the mainstream. All welcome.
https://tomstockley.weebly.com/
Joy Against The Machine was designed in 2021 for the Palace International Film Festival and subsequently delivered across the UK. Informed and inspired by centuries of artists and writers who have used their otherness as a form of resistance and celebration (from Virginia Woolf to Ocean Vuong), poet and community activist T.S. IDIOT wants to ask where we find our own joy, and how to harness our otherness through our writing.
Suitable for groups of up to 20 participants, this workshop is focused on those with a lived experience of being LGBTQIA+, but no questions asked and everyone is welcome! The workshop begins with a brief and dynamic exploration of the history of queer writers, from the ancient Saphiccs to the underground gay writers of the 19th and 20th century ot the present day. Throughout history, artists who have felt othered by their gender or sexuality have created their own rules, breaking boundaries and celebrating their differences through writing and performance.
Our collective task within the workshop is to do the same - to ask ourselves what our own queer joy looks like, how to find it and how to use words and voice to share it. We will achieve this through group discussion, word association games, free writing tasks, collaborative writing and a final guided writing and editing session. After concluding and sharing our thoughts and our work, the workshop facilitator will edit and produce a shareable image of our collected writing - this can be digital or printed as an optional extra)
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.
Entry requirements:
13:30 - 15:00pm. £5.
Joy Against The Machine: Writing from a place of queer joy, resilience and otherness
Join artist, poet and community activist T.S. IDIOT to share your thoughts on using queer joy as a form of resistance and what that means to us, our writing, and centuries of outsiders (from Virginia Woolf to Ocean Vuong). Learn to write from a place of joy and resilience rooted in our collective queerness and the experience of anyone who has felt othered or outside the mainstream. All welcome.
https://tomstockley.weebly.com/
Joy Against The Machine was designed in 2021 for the Palace International Film Festival and subsequently delivered across the UK. Informed and inspired by centuries of artists and writers who have used their otherness as a form of resistance and celebration (from Virginia Woolf to Ocean Vuong), poet and community activist T.S. IDIOT wants to ask where we find our own joy, and how to harness our otherness through our writing.
Suitable for groups of up to 20 participants, this workshop is focused on those with a lived experience of being LGBTQIA+, but no questions asked and everyone is welcome! The workshop begins with a brief and dynamic exploration of the history of queer writers, from the ancient Saphiccs to the underground gay writers of the 19th and 20th century ot the present day. Throughout history, artists who have felt othered by their gender or sexuality have created their own rules, breaking boundaries and celebrating their differences through writing and performance.
Our collective task within the workshop is to do the same - to ask ourselves what our own queer joy looks like, how to find it and how to use words and voice to share it. We will achieve this through group discussion, word association games, free writing tasks, collaborative writing and a final guided writing and editing session. After concluding and sharing our thoughts and our work, the workshop facilitator will edit and produce a shareable image of our collected writing - this can be digital or printed as an optional extra)
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.
Entry requirements:
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