Coming up
Longer course: Poetics of place
Join me for a four-week long intensive exploration into the poetics of place. Drawing on thinkers such as Bayo Akomolafe, Sophie Strand, Robert McFarlane, Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and others, we will thread theory into practice with a variety of exercises, discussions and makings.
Essentially, we will co-develop an inquiry into what it means to become intertwined and entangled with the landscape around us over the course of four in-person gatherings.
Longer course: What if we learnt to slow down together? SWG x The Convivial
Sophie and Evelyn invite you to ‘grow ivy into the cracks’ with us in this hopeful and rebellious action inquiry. We’ll come together in the practice of slowing down as a form of radical resistance and transformational work.
Together, we’ll have space to be fallow, existential and messy, sit with both the ease and resistance we feel in doing this, and play with the possibilities and questions that dwell in the cracks. We offer a space for slowing down enough to feel, for dancing between learning, unlearning, reflection and practice, and for opening up enough to imagine alternatives…
Workshop: Writing the sensuous world
Oral language welled up from an ongoing and reciprocal call-and-response with the living, organic world. In turning to the page, we shifted into a mode of engagement in which we mostly talk only to and amongst ourselves. In this day-long workshop with Sophie Craven, we will explore methods for worlding the world through an approach to language which grounds it again in orality and a process of call-and-response with a sensuous world.
Using the Penryn woods as our ecological collaborator, we will explore deep listening practices, movement as language, ecological rhythm and meter and sounding, before finishing by putting pen to paper. We will ask: how might we attune to an already-speaking world? Is it possible to write with the world? Can the written word connect us to reality, rather than abstract us from it?
Why did the ancients make cave art?
Location: The Convivial, 18 Lower Market Street, Penryn
Imagine it: standing in front of the cave mouth. The nothing leading into nothing. Walking in and following the passageway as it becomes smaller and smaller. Contorting your body through foot-wide gaps, heart in your mouth, blood rushing in your ears.
And the question that we modern humans cannot answer - WHY? Why would they do this?
For me, this question is a deeply imaginative one, opening out into many different modes of thinking and feeling - including theology and the study of the sacred, somatics and trauma theory, art and ritual…
The poetics of place
Location: The Convivial, 18 Lower Market Street, Penryn
The etymology of ecology is oikos + logy, i.e., the study of house or home and family or kin. In this day-long inquiry, we will delve into what it truly means to study our home; i.e. to re-entangle ourselves within a wider web of interspecies relationships. For this we will work with the Penryn woodland as our ecological collaborator.
Join me for an intensive exploration into the poetics of place…
An interspecies creative writing workshop
Location: The Convivial, 18 Lower Market Street, Penryn
There is so much in the air we breathe – pheromones, spores, viruses, bacteria – that we always speak as hybrid selves, as holobionts, as mouth pieces for the air itself.
So, who really speaks when we speak?
Join me in a speculative creative writing workshop exploring interspecies communications, translations, and textual collaborations…
Encountering water via the Penryn river
Location: The Convivial, 18 Lower Market Street, Penryn
Join me and Dr Rebecca Sykes for an exploration of our relationship with water, using pilgrimage, art, ceremony and science. Following water upstream, we will bring attention to water through mythology, posthumanism, flows, tides, hydrodynamics and history, exploring water through both its site-specific particularity and its mythological and ecological universality.
Who is water? How can re-remembering water and its ways and pathways help us become bodies of water for future times?