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Poetry for everyday, Brislington – Creative Writing Workshop.
February 17 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Join writer Jack Young for a free Creative Writing Workshop at St Anne’s House.
Saturday 17 Feb, 11am – 1pm. Please RSVP here.
Poetry for everyday, Brislington – Creative Writing Workshop.
This creative and fun workshop will look at the poetry of the mundane, thinking through what it means to pay attention to small moments, things that are often left behind, and the intimacies of the world we live in. We will work with familiar objects and places and transform them through art-making, using techniques such as automatic writing, collage, and collective narrative-building.
No previous experience is needed. Open to all ages and abilities.
The workshop is part of the BRIZ programme 2024, and will help create ideas for the upcoming summer issue, with the opportunity to have your work published in the publication. BRIZ is the community newsletter for all things Brislington, to find out more about the printed newsletter please visit: stanneshouse.org/projects/briz.
Facilitator: Jack Young
Jack Young is a writer and socially-engaged artist living in Bristol.
He writes hybrid work exploring land justice, queer ecologies and hauntings of landscape and archive.
His debut chapbook is URTH (Big White Shed: 2022) and he co-edited the book Haunting Ashton Court: A Creative Handbook for Collective History-Making in 2023. He also co-hosts the literary podcast Tender Buttons in partnership with Storysmith Bookshop.
As an educator, he works with young people using arts-based critical pedagogy, applied theatre and creative writing to explore themes ranging from fabulist approaches to reanimating the gaps and silences in historical archives, to queer ecologies and speculative fiction.
He has worked with community spaces and cultural institutions in Barcelona, London and Bristol including MACBA, Institut Broggi, the Royal Academy, Horseman Museum, Tate, Gasworks, Spike Island, UWE Bristol, Acta Theatre and Artspace Lifespace.
Jack currently works at St Anne’s House, as the Youth Programme Producer, developing and faciliating the youth programme for 13 – 16 year olds living in Brislington.
