This workshop will approach sustainability in writing: how can we avoid writers’ block and reliably create inspiration where there isn’t any?
Ellie Hoskins will be sharing her go-to method of harvesting examples of others’ writing and language that she likes and using them as the starting point for her own writing. They will be using a spider diagram/mind map format, using quotes that she has found in books and on the internet as prompts to expand upon with your own thoughts. When you have filled the paper and generated enough of your own words, you will form a poem out of them.
More about workshop leader: Ellie Hoskins
Ellie Hoskins is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer from Cumbria, now based in Liverpool. Her work is diaristic and frank, combining slapstick millennial nihilism with an immersion in the rituals and details of everyday working life. Making and sharing her visual/text works online, she seeks to capture moments of private absurdity with self-deprecating clarity, emphasising their universality as she brings them out into the light.
Ellie founded and facilitates the unofficial online art/writing school Phlegm, which culminated in an exhibition at The Royal Standard in 2021 and is currently in its second year. Other recent projects include a text installation on the exterior of Bluecoat, a collection of short texts commissioned by Montez Press, a reading at the ICA London, and a solo exhibition at OUTPUT.
Where: Pink Sands Studio
Time: 6:30pm
What to bring: Just yourself for this one!
More about the CRAFTBAR programme:
CRAFTBAR is a new innovative programme of free access to creative workshops and labs focusing on sustainable and circular skills, thinking, practices, making and design. The labs will take place at venues across the town of Birkenhead including: Pink sands studio, Birkenhead Park, Pilgrim street arts centre and Open Door Charity.
CRAFTBAR is free and open for everyone to attend and take part in a range of fun and inspiring creative activities including: Ecology and foraging, herbalism, fermentation and sustainable cooking, creative activism, puppetry making, weaving, writing, sculpture and building from waste materials.