Every Place Has a Soul: A Poetry Workshop
With Manisha Anjali
Dates: Choose either Sunday 12th June at 11am AEST or Thursday 16th June at 6.30pm AEST
Every Place has a soul, every street has a story. In this workshop, we will commune with our inner worlds in relation to the places we live, work and dream, as basis for writing poetry. The workshop will involve an improvised silent walk, creation of personal psychogeography maps, and writing what takes place in between psyche and space. We will discuss memory, dream and emotion inspired by architecture, signage, roads and objects, and philosophies on what constitutes the spirit of a place, as well as the spirit of a poem.
Poets will leave the workshop with:
personal maps, a draft poem, and a method for daydreaming and composing in collaboration with their environment.
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection
This workshop is suitable for:
Poets of any age or experience
Ticketing:
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession ($30) to full ($40) to generous supporter ($50, i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a bit extra).
Festival pass holders receive a free ticket to ONE of our upcoming professional development workshops. If you want to book a ticket for Every Place Has a Soul, choose Festival Pass Holder as your ticket option in the dropdown menu.
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Manisha Anjali is a writer and artist. She is the founder of Community Dream Project, a research and documentation platform for dreams, visions and hallucinations. Manisha has been a Writer-in-Residence at Incendium Radical Library, a Hot Desk Fellow at The Wheeler Centre and Artist-in-Residence BLINDSIDE’s Regional Arts & Research Residency at Mooramong.