Music and Mood: A Writing Workshop with Musical Inspiration

In this workshop, participants will produce and share writing that responds to music and the (virtual) presence of a live musician, saxophonist Janet Lumb. By listening and tuning in to their own creative reactions, writers will explore the interplay between music and mood as well as sound, story, and memory, using language to examine the soundtracks in our lives.

Janet Lumb, a Toronto-born, third generation Chinese Canadian, lived in Vancouver for ten years as a hippie punk and has since 1984 been in Montreal as a musician, composer, ecologist and community activist.

K.B. Thors is the author of Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House Books), the Icelandic-English translator of Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Stormwarning (Phoneme Media) and the Spanish-English translator of Soledad Marambio’s Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else (Ugly Duckling Presse). She has taught Poetry and Creative Writing at Columbia University, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in Manhattan, and the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.