Description
Saturday, Nov 8, 9:30am-3:30pm
Open to all
Limited to 12 participants
Hybrid Workshop*
Do you have an appetite for poetry and connection? For playing and writing with others to enrich your practice, push your limits, and make great things happen? Come collaborate with us!
Collaboration is standard in music, theatre, dance, science, and many other areas of creative and professional practice. Writers have long worked with artists in other disciplines. Some would even say that all writing is, in some way, collaborative: even when we write alone, we’re writing in conversation with the poetry of today and the rich art of the past. The last decade or so has seen a blossoming of writers writing together.
There are many ways to approach literary collaboration. In “Third Mind,” we begin by creating short sequences and move to editing together and practicing close listening to each other as we develop the ‘third’ or collective voice. We work with models offered by renga (Japanese linked verse) using the technique of link and shift, Surrealist collaborative experiments that seed the ground for gifts of chance, and applied principles of improv theatre, perhaps the ultimate collaborative practice.
In this one-day, hands-on workshop, we will write in groups and pairs to create the collaborative voice that sings together.
Please bring paper, pens, and a simple object that fits in a pocket. Note: you do not need to sign up with a partner/partners.
*This workshop will take place at the QWF Office (Room 3, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount, Quebec) with up to 2 virtual spots for participants who are unable to attend in-person because of distance or disability. By default, all workshop registrations are for in-person spots. If you would like to request a virtual slot, contact Riley at riley@qwf.org stating the reason for which you would need the virtual spot, then wait for a response before registering. Please do not register until you receive confirmation of a virtual spot for you.
