The Writer’s Bloc presents Workshop 2: Turning Pain into Purpose Through Poetry with Toria Garbutt.
The event is free and held online, 15 September, 6pm-7.30pm. To book see here.
The workshop will be visiting some of our difficult past experiences and bringing them out into the light; considering how our painful life events can propel us into transformation and how we can make sense of our difficult emotions through writing. Let’s dig deep: vulnerability is the birthplace of connection.
Since bursting onto the scene in 2014, Toria has been a regular tour support for Dr John Cooper Clarke, most recently his ‘Luckiest Guy Alive Tour’ on which Toria performed her first European date.
In 2016, Toria released her Debut album ‘Hot plastic Moon’ via spoken word label Nymphs and Thugs and, in 2018, her first poetry collection ‘The Universe and Me’ published by Wrecking Ball Press.
Toria’s words have also been featured in Not Too Tame’s Northern Souls show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and recently in The Guardian for their feature on The Rise – and Rise – of the New Poets.