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Creative Pollination: Exploration & Creative Writing Course (Free)

  • Woodlands Community Garden & Zoom (map)

As a part of Woodlands Nature Recovery Project, join in a creative journey out of lockdown and into enlivening relationship with the living world!  A four-week adventure of experiential herbalism, place-based explorations and creative writing. Combining personal, collaborative and free-flow approaches to writing, the project aims to inspire, catalyse and connect. Through one-to-one time to meet in the garden with your tutor and weekly group virtual group workshops, Creative Pollination nurtures the emergence of creative practice and supportive community as an exploration of our ecological belonging.


Free!
No previous experience needed.
Month long commitment required.

Application closes Friday 19 June at midnight.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFnMgjU5oLLSFHEbndAtoYbzdOl4Hb1DfTacGBspYnR8S0Sg/viewform

Thank you!

Weekly Rhythm:

23 June - 17 July

Tuesday Mornings - 15 minute, one to one (physically distanced) session at the Woodlands Community Garden. Each participant will schedule a slot between 1-4pm.

Wild Cards - Play with these exercises, prompts and inspirations in your own time.

Friday Afternoons (5pm - 6.30pm) - Virtual group workshop (using Zoom platform which is free to access). A space to share our experiences and writing as a creative community.

Through this course you will learn to:
Explore and establish nature connection practices.
Deepen your relationship with the neighbourhood and it’s more-than-human communities.
Play with exercises, prompts and inspirations in a diversity of creative forms.
Develop a creative practice and explore creative response.
Write a text: from inspiration to development, editing to publication.
Based on a foundation of herbalist approaches and including an introduction to foraging.

TUTOR
Amy Clarkson is a DFA Creative Writing researcher at University of Glasgow, exploring and writing about the reciprocal relationships between people, place and ideas of ‘wildness’.
A creative-ecology practitioner, Amy facilitates workshops, events and programmes. An enthusiastic forager, amateur naturalist, and a sensory explorer of local wildness, Amy delights in co-creating safe spaces of learning and sharing where the living world is our teacher

Imaginative + experiential
Ecological + creative
Personal + collective/ collaborative
Topographical + botanical
Fun, friendly + inclusive