Postcards from the World: An Urban Nature Workshop

Wild turkeys roaming the back alleys. Coyotes running down the street. Canada Geese roosting on rooftops. What does it mean to slow down and pay attention to the urban ecosystem? What lives in the urban forest with us? 

This workshop will be ambulatory, spending time with the flora/fauna/funga of the Caetani Centre grounds. We will be doing a variety of exercizes, including ones that draw on forestbathing invitations. We will focus on close observation of urban nature, writing about what we see/hear/smell/taste.

**This workshop is appropriate for writers of any level working in any genre.

Bring: Notebook and pen/pencil

When: Friday, August 29, 9:30am-12:30pm

Where: Caetani Centre grounds - 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon

Cost: $75

Attendees must pre-register. See HERE for more info and registration.

Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with Plume Winnipeg that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press. She is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are the essay collection Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) and the epistolary spec-fic novel Blood Letters, co-authored with graphic novelist GMB Chomichuk (Great Plains Press, 2025).