Description
Open to all.
Limited to 12 participants.
We plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it, this workshop may transition to a purely online model.
What is the body returning to? If we are to call our meetings back in-person with each other following the ongoing upending resonances of pandemic years a return to something? To something we love, but something also unfamiliar, forgotten, and that we feel distanced in our bodies from? How to orient ourselves in poetry? In our bodily orientations to place, the city, intimacy of everyday objects, and with each other? In this in-person workshop, we will explore the poetic spaces that collect our stories, our memories, and also the orientation of our bodies. What is queerness in this context? What can be written and shared about the feeling of queer returns? Public returns? Returns to the surroundings communities that have defined our feeling at home while being stuck at home, longing for alternatives? We will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises, followed by a period of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets, artists, and activists. The latter half of the session will be guided on editing and revision. We will end with an art project to commemorate our writing in this workshop experience.
TIME: 13:00 to 16:00
DURATION: October 29, 2022
LOCATION: QWF Office—1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC
