8/09/2011 (Thursday)
Workshop by Van G. Garrett
Workshopping With a Metaphor
Workshop offers visual aids to help make teaching the craft of writing more tangible. A writer’s job is to unpeel material, examine it, uncover meaning, appreciate it, comment about it, and give an audience an opportunity to savor the work the writer worked so hard to create. Artist and poet Van G. Garrett from Houston will provide practical classes which will help to go through the writing process – from looking for themes and motifs till presenting the finished poem to auditory.
11:00 – 13:00 – Workshop
13:00 – 14:00 – Coffee / lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 – Workshop
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 – Workshop
9/09/2011 (Friday)
Workshop by Jacob Sam-La Rose
The Art of Performing Poetry
Poetry’s power is as much about the art of how it is performed, as the poetry itself. This is a workshop in poetic performance skills – an invitation to enhance your poetry in the expression, tone, color and movement of how it is performed. This workshop will be hosted by the acclaimed London-based urban poet, Jacob Sam-La Rose. Jacob sees performance as the defining feature of urban poetry, where movement and expression reflect the bold, vivid character of the city.
10:00 – 11:30 – Workshop
11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30 – Workshop
9/09/2011 (Friday)
Workshop by Aoife Mannix Sense of Place
Workshop “Sense of Place” will allow exploring a writer’s relationship to place. Who are you and where do you come from? How does your personal experience and imagined experience shape and flavor your writing. Are you to be believed? Irish writer Aoife Mannix will curate a fast-moving practical workshop exploring the fusion of memory, imagination and reality in the context of place and how it plays out in the written word.
14:00 – 15:30 – Workshop
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 – Workshop
Place: Totaldobže Art Center (territory of former factory VEF)
Group size: 20 people
Working language: English
Entrance fee: no
To participate in workshops you have to fill an application form, which you can download here Application_UrbanPoetry and please send it to katrina.vastlave@gmail.com until September 5th!
Van G. Garrett (also known as Fui Koshi) is an internationally celebrated artist and author. As a visual artist, Van’s / Fui’s photography, videos, and paintings have been on display or utilized by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the University of Rhode Island; Rice University; the International Film Channel (IFC); the Indie Black Film Festival; the Aurora Picture Show; HBO’s The Wire: Spoken Word Battle; The Source; and Capitol Records. As a literary artist, Van has received numerous awards and fellowships. Additionally, he has served as a judge for the National Poetry Slam.
His poetry has been published in journals and anthologies based in the United States, Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and London. Van has served as a referee for the International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association (IJAPA), and his reviews and articles have appeared in African American Review; Film and History: The Documentary Tradition (CD-ROM); and the Encyclopedia of African American History: 1896 to the Present; From the Age of Segregation to the 21st Century, Oxford University Press. His debut collection of poetry, Songs in Blue Negritude, is published by Xavier Review Press (2008). See www.vanggarrettpoet.com for more information.
Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer and poet based in London. Her first novel Heritage of Secrets was published in 2008. She is the author of four collections of poetry; The Trick of Foreign Words (2002), The Elephant in the Corner (2005), Growing Up An Alien (2007) and Turn The Clocks Upside Down (2008). She regularly features on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and the BBC World Service’s World Today. She has been writer in residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Poetry School, Spread the Word, All Change and Apples & Snakes. She has performed throughout the UK including at Latitude, the Big Chill, and Ledbury Poetry Festival. She has toured internationally with the British Council to Nigeria, Turkey, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Norway and Austria.See www.aoifemannix.com for more information.
A celebrated poet and performer in his own right, Jacob Sam-La Rose is also the Artistic Director of Shake the Dust — the national youth poetry SLAM initiative — and a poetry editor for flipped eye publishing. He has devised and facilitated literature-in-education, creative writing and spoken word programmes for schools, universities and institutions around the world, and is well known for building communities and creating opportunities for emerging poets and writers. He has developed poetry and performance programmes with organisations such as the British Council, the National Theatre, the Arvon Foundation, the National Gallery, Apples & Snakes, Tate Britain, the Roundhouse, Glyndebourne and the Barbican. Jacob Sam-La Rose has been published in Identity Parade – New British & Irish Poets; Penguin’s Poems For Love; I Have Found A Song; Learn Then Burn: The Ultimate Poetry Guide for the High School or College Classroom; and Michael Rosen’s A-Z: The Best Children’s Poetry from Agard to Zephaniah, among many other anthologies and journals. See www.jacobsamlarose.com for more information.