Swim Wild, Write Free
An event on Saturday 9th August. The event starts at 14:00.
Join Fra Beecher for an afternoon of writing in response to the river, with an invitation to swim too!
Writing prompts and exercises will be shared, but will not be mandatory. There will also be an invitation to share what you create during the workshop. You are also invited to perform during part 2 of the workshop, on 14th August, and/or display your writing in the exhibition at The Launderette.
Fra will wait at Conham River Park, with a blanket and a sign. After introductions and a few warm up exercises we will then set off for a walk along the river footpath, to the ferry crossing steps (opposite to Beeses).
Writing materials will be available, but please feel free to bring you own.
Tickets are available on a pay what you can afford basis, with a £3 minimum.
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Fra Beecher is an artist and life model, and co-founder of United Models Life Drawing CIC. Her creative practice is informed by her modelling work and the weekly life drawing sessions she facilitates in Bristol. Through her projects, including Body of Work (2018-2020), Fra challenges the misconception that female life models are passive objects.
As a longstanding wild swimmer, Fra has begun to explore the physical, emotional and psychological experience of swimming in the River Avon through photography, writing, drawing and sculpture.
This residency and exhibition is an opportunity to experiment, and reflect, making new work and collaborating with artists, writers and fellow swimmers. Through a series of creative workshops, attendees will have the opportunity to share their own personal connections to bodies of water, which will become part of the works on display.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Writing prompts and exercises will be shared, but will not be mandatory. There will also be an invitation to share what you create during the workshop. You are also invited to perform during part 2 of the workshop, on 14th August, and/or display your writing in the exhibition at The Launderette.
Fra will wait at Conham River Park, with a blanket and a sign. After introductions and a few warm up exercises we will then set off for a walk along the river footpath, to the ferry crossing steps (opposite to Beeses).
Writing materials will be available, but please feel free to bring you own.
Tickets are available on a pay what you can afford basis, with a £3 minimum.
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Fra Beecher is an artist and life model, and co-founder of United Models Life Drawing CIC. Her creative practice is informed by her modelling work and the weekly life drawing sessions she facilitates in Bristol. Through her projects, including Body of Work (2018-2020), Fra challenges the misconception that female life models are passive objects.
As a longstanding wild swimmer, Fra has begun to explore the physical, emotional and psychological experience of swimming in the River Avon through photography, writing, drawing and sculpture.
This residency and exhibition is an opportunity to experiment, and reflect, making new work and collaborating with artists, writers and fellow swimmers. Through a series of creative workshops, attendees will have the opportunity to share their own personal connections to bodies of water, which will become part of the works on display.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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