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EAT YOUR WORDS: GROWING MUSHROOMS ON BOOKS
Bring an old book that will be eventually transformed into edible mushrooms. Learn how these beautiful living fungi (something neither plant nor animal) decompose organic material (even books). I’ll take you through the process of growing grey/blue oyster mushrooms in recycled books and start you on your own mushroom growing journey. The workshop will see each participant inoculate a book with mushroom spawn to take away and nurture, eventually producing beautiful edible mushrooms at home.
DELIQUESCENCE DELIGHT: MAKING INK FROM MUSHROOMS
I’ll guide you through the process of turning Shaggy Inkcap mushrooms into ink and then invites you to use this ink for writing, drawing and/or painting inspired by fungi. In the process, find out how inkcap mushrooms emerge as whole fruiting bodies and then gradually ‘deliquesce’ or liquify into a black ink in the process of releasing their spores: a sort of ‘death into new life’ performance. You will take away with you the instructions for creating your own ink from mushrooms, a jar of ink and your own writing or drawing/painting.
GROW YOUR OWN POETRY
In part poetry workshop, in part hands on gardening. Explore hope through playful prompts and visual inspiration. Write your hope filled poetry onto seeded paper and plant it, take it home with you and watch it grow.
NATURAL CORDAGE & MINDFUL MAKING
A slow, tactile workshop about making with your hands at the pace of your body. Learn to make natural cordage from plant fibres, engage in tactile meditation and sensory grounding, and explore “materials that hold”.
NATURAL INK MAKING
Make inks from foraged materials and use them for creative experiments. Create natural inks from berries, spices and plants, learn simple mark making techniques and explore the concept of “what leaves a trace”.
ECOLOGICAL CREATIVITY AND MYCELIAL THINKING
A conceptual and making workshop exploring networks, interdependence, and alternative ways of understanding connection. Learn ecological metaphors, map your own personal/mycelial networks, create “network artefacts”.
MAKING FROM/FOR BED: Creative Practice for Disabled & Low Energy Artists
A disabled-led workshop about how to make work while honouring disability, chronic illness and access. Learn pacing tools, explore low-energy creative strategies, reflect on alternative timelines.
HOLDING SPACE: Facilitation and Gathering
Learn how to hold accessible, inclusive conversations in community. Learn the principles of assemblies, practice holding space, understand consensus building and access- forward facilitation.
ECOLOGICAL STORYTELLING/POETRY
A gentle, sensory storytelling or poetry workshop exploring the stories, metaphors and inner worlds hidden inside ecological systems. Writing as an act of noticing, ecological patterns, nature as narrative, ecology as metaphor and the natural world as co-writer.
PRODUCE WITH CARE
Disabled led producing and access in practice. Access producing frameworks, low energy project planning, how to build access into budgets and timelines, sustainable working for chronically ill artists and creatives.
