Creative Writing/Intergenre Funshops
We, quite rightly, call our times the Information Era, but I would like to coin the term In-Formation Era (first used by myself in June 2000), the time in history when, quite rapidly, something completely new and different is forming, on the global scale. We have no idea what is going to happen in terms of the future. How does one participate in that much unknown? My suggestion is through the revival our creative abilities, which have been schooled, institutionalised and sometimes parented and socialised out of us. A good place to start is to get involved in creative activities that allow free flow thinking, feeling and imagining. I have designed a series of intergenre writing funshops that could be of assistance.
To the first funshop, please bring:
- Your favourite poem or another piece of creative writing e.g. short story, description, paragraph from a novel, intergenre piece, anything experimental, your own piece of writing that you like or want to share.
- An object that holds a special meaning to you e.g. a photograph, an item of baby clothing, a letter, etc.
- Something that causes an intense reaction in you (not necessarily a good or bad feeling) e.g. a piece of writing or music or visual art that for some reason you can’t get out of your mind.
- And last, but not least, your creativity, willingness to experiment and experience, to share, to laugh and cry, to feel free.
Dates:
Sat 26.06.10
Sat 03.07.10
Sat 10.07.10
Sat 17.07.10
Sat 24.07.10
Sat 31.07.10
Time:
2.30pm-4pm
Place:
38 Suncroft Street, Mt Gravatt 4122
Fee:
$20 per hour. (Refreshments provided.)
For more information email me at niemira.agnieszka@yahoo.com or call me on 04488 43314.
I look forward to hearing from you.
With thanks,
Agnieszka Niemira
PS
My books of poetry "making the invisible transparent" (Post Pressed, 2008) and "waves whisper the shoreline to life" (Post Pressed, 2010) are available.
Short Bio:
Agnieszka Niemira is a poet, haijin, writer and learning facilitator.
Her collections “making the invisible transparent” (2008) and "waves whisper the shoreline to life" (2010) were released through Post Pressed.
Her poems have also appeared in Southerly, The Australian (Weekend Review), Social Alternatives, the poetry anthology “Up From Below” (Redress Press), Paper Wasp, Blue Giraffe, Stylus, the Mozzie, Haiku Dreaming Australia, Scope, SpeedPoets, Empowerment4Women, Radar, Slowo Powszechne, and on BRISSC (Brisbane Rape & Incest Survivors Support Centre) website as well as on Stachuriada.
She has performed her poetry at various events in Poland and Australia and read her work on radio.
She won two awards (First Prize and Distinction) during a prestigious Polish Poetry Competition, Lódz’s Spring of Poets, 1985, and an Encouragement Award from the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Queensland) in April 1989. In 2008, she was one of the finalists of the Paper Wasp Jack Stamm Haiku Competition and a runner-up in the Brisbane Heat of Poetry Slam.
Agnieszka has also published articles on learning and human rights, and presented talks on creative living, creativity and learning.
