Description
A Museum of Memories is a 10-week writing course that can be booked in two 5-week parts. The general framework for the course will be the museum, a space where different art forms are found and a journey through memories can take place.
The first five workshops will look at how images can inspire and help writing, how imagery works in writing, and what the organic connection between the fine arts and the art of writing is.
Participants will do writing exercises based on images provided in the classroom. Previous knowledge of art history is optional, and I am not planning any drawing or painting together. However, images and pictures can be part of the work produced at home.
The second part of the course will follow the theme of the museum but focus on memories. We will look at how memory shapes our writing, how memories can be told, and how objects, images, and sensations can initiate the process of recollection.
There will be no need to use personal memories if participants don’t feel like it. The focus will be on the interaction and parallel characteristics between writing and remembering.
The first five-week course dates are 10, 17, 24, 31 October and 7 November. (Followed by one week off.)
The second five-week course dates are 21, 28 November and 5, 12, 19 December.
Time: 1 – 2.30 pm Thursday
Place: The Trinity Centre, Meole Brace, Church Road, SY3 9HF