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…

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…

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…