drawing stories

The first in a seasonal series of experimental days using psychogeography as a framework for creative practice with writer Dr Alison Clare Scott and visual artist Pip Lewis.

Psychogeography is both a way of moving through an environment; and the effect of engaging with the geographical location differently. What was initially an urban practice will be diversified into the wild, rural landscape of West Wales. We will explore the possibilities of navigating topography, identifying the palimpsest of the locale and expressing our responses through creative writing and visual arts.

An experimental approach will be encouraged, introducing ideas around memory, history, voices and narratives that emerge in response to place and the way they make us feel or behave.

The focus of this first session is related to the Celtic calendar – Samhain, letting go of the old (into the cauldron) to prepare new beginnings. Celtic spirituality named sacred places as thin places where the walls between heaven and earth seem especially permeable, and the worlds distinctly close to each other. They also believed that time was not linear but spiral. This place was not just beyond time but beyond space and actually re-forming space. This is the space where we start: we will walk the land, begin our engagement with this patch of earth, and form our individual relationship, letting our intuition draw us to the stories we want to express.

The workshop will be of interest to those who are interested in developing their creative practice and exploring the playful interplay between writing and visual arts in relation to psychogeography and the sense of place.

Cost £110 per person plus booking fee, inclusive of a fresh organically grown lunch, coffees, teas, cake and all art materials needed for the day.

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