Shell as threshold: Creative writing workshop
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Use creative writing to explore kinship and care with the oyster.
Join curatorial collective Boats Brings Bonds and writer Megan Hullander for a creative writing workshop exploring the oyster's significance in London.
As a poetic device, oysters filter, absorb and host our metaphors and desires – even our solutions to environmental catastrophe.
Taking artist Astrida Neimanis’ idea of 'watery commons' as a starting point, this workshop will use creative writing and mark-making to explore co-existence, kinship and care with the oyster.
We'll aim to ask: what future worlds can we imagine when we write from the threshold of the oyster’s shell?
The material generated from this workshop will then form part of a sonic piece, co-created with musical artist Frances Glass.
Need to know
Writing materials and refreshments will be available.
We welcome participants of all levels of experience and background.
You can find us at London Museum Studios, First Floor, Studio Smithfield, 1 East Poultry Avenue, EC1A 9PT.
We're just a few minutes away from Farringdon station.
