Beginning a Creative Workbook: Using “Illustration” or Mark Making to Think Through Writing
In this workshop we will begin to think through a few pieces of writing, or a larger writing project using paint, found and cut up images, and words. Through play with images and texts, we can loosen our ways of approaching our written work and find new ways of writing, editing and thinking through a small or large project. I will offer writing prompts to help generate poems and prose, and provide instruction on playing with colour and images using watercolour paint, pencil crayons and pens. Through writing and mark making, you can explore multiple ways of creating and editing. We will create 2 full spread pages of writing and visuals while working on several new pieces of writing in this play-based class.
**This is for all writers who want to explore using multimedia.
Bring: images from magazines or old photographs printed on paper for cutting and tearing, questions from a project you are starting or struggling with and 2 rough drafts of poems or prose.
When: Friday, August 22, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Where: Caetani Centre Gallery - 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon
Cost: $75 per person
Attendees must pre-register. See HERE for more info & registration
Yvonne Blomer has published six books of poetry, most recently Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press, 2024). Her work has won awards and appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Japan. She has an MA with Distinction from the University of East Anglia and lives on the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) speaking people. She was the City of Victoria’s poet laureate from 2015-2018.
“I have been teaching in-person and online classes in poetry and creative nonfiction for over 20 years. During the past few years, I have focused on editing, teaching, mentoring and writing. With the pandemic I moved to online teaching on Zoom, and I continue to offer classes this way, to students who zoom in from across Canada and into the U.S. The classes usually run for four weeks, are focused on specific aspects of poetry and prose, and are well attended. Carolyn Forche writes in Modern American Poetry that she is “dedicated to holding the classroom open as a space for critical and creative thought.” I too strive to create such a space by fostering mutual respect and deep engagement.”