Hayley Frances
Tues, 17th Sep, 19:00
Working together, we’ll develop strategies for bringing our bodily selves into our creative processes through practical exercises.
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:00 - 21:00 BST
‘Writing the felt self’ begins from the premise of our bodies being our personal strongholds, and the starting places of our creative adventures. Working together, we’ll develop strategies for bringing our bodily selves into our creative processes through practical exercises. We’ll begin by writing freely to discover what we have waiting and ready inside us. We’ll then work with sound, hearing, and aural memory, and finally connect with our visual and instinctive selves by making hand erasures. All exercises will be carefully guided and aim to leave you with drafts of new poems as well as tools to take forward.
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alice hiller’s debut, bird of winter, explores the agency and transformations that art-making can generate, and how exercising our creativity opens channels beyond individual and societal silencings. Published by Liverpool University Press, it was short-listed for the 2021 Forwards and 2022 John Pollard prizes. A former features journalist, alice founded Voicing Our Silences to resource poets responding to complex materials.
Alice debuted at VERVE in 2024, performing at our Saturday Headline event alongside Rebecca Goss and Nicole Sealey. It is wonderful having Alice as part of our 2024 workshop series.