Writing With | Writing workshop in PeasPark

About A drop in becoming

We are delighted to welcome Catalyst Arts and artist Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe to PeasPark as part of a substantial events programme to accompany A drop in becoming: a living exhibition, transforming over the course of a month in response to the temporal world we inhabit. 

Curated by Catalyst Arts Co-Director Samar Nezamabad, and featuring the works of Annie Hogg and Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe, sculptures dissolve, absorb, and digest in an ever-changing encounter. The artists employ sustainable techniques and hand-harvested materials in intimate communication with their natural surroundings that question our changing relationship to the earth. Audiences are invited to become participants in the Catalyst Arts gallery space as the works engage all five of their senses.

The accompanying events programme engages in active listening, slow looking, creative writing, and speculative thinking. 

About the workshop

This interactive writing workshop will guide participants to utilise fiction as a tool to re-imagine their living surroundings.

Writing With invites participants to explore time as a material within their writing practice, utilising fiction as a tool to imagine, re-imagine, empathise with and explore the plants and matter living at PeasPark.

Facilitated by Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe, the workshop will consist of a series of facilitated short writing exercises with prompts and space for discussion. Between writing exercises the group will move through the garden exploring and weaving walking and interactions with the site into the writing exercises. The workshop uses fiction to explore and reimagine the life cycles, material properties and sensorial experiences of the matter living at PeasPark, considering time as a vital material to pay attention to in the practice of writing, but also as a vital presence when thinking with more-than-human beings, places, plants, and bodies.

Please note

• We will provide some pens and paper, but if you would like to use any specific writing tools, please bring these with you
  
• Tables and chairs and light refreshments will be provided
• PeasPark is a not-entirely accessible urban park. The site has patches of uneven ground, may be slippery following wet weather, and there are no bathroom facilities on site. We always ask that attendees bring appropriate footwear, outerwear and an open mind. 

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PS² is supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council's Artists' Studio and Makerspace Organisational Grant, Arts & Business NI's Blueprint Investment Grant, and Dormant Assets NI through The National Lottery Community Fund.