Collected By The Dock: Poetry Workshop

Name: Collected By The Dock: Poetry Workshop
Start: 2024-07-06T14:00:54+1000
End: 2024-07-06T15:30:00+1000
Location: Library at The Dock

Sat, 6 Jul 2024, 2pm - 3:30pm AEST

Library at The Dock

Docklands VIC, Australia

Phoebe Thompson

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Event description

Join exhibiting artist and poet Phoebe Thompson in a gentle, inclusive poetry workshop.

Be guided in free-verse poetry techniques inviting you to draw inspiration from mundane minutiae, the awesome beauty of nature, and your rich inner world.
Participants will be led in writing exercises, and there will be time for those who may wish to share.

Open to young and old, the practiced and the rookies, and everyone who slips in between. No experience necessary!

Session runs 1.5 hours with a short break.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Phoebe Thompson

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Phoebe Thompson is an artist, poet, curator, and producer living on unceded Boon Wurrung land.

They graduated from the Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT, and currently work at RMIT Creative as a Senior Associate Creative Producer. They were recently a finalist in the My Brother Jack Awards, and their work has been published in Voiceworks, Soft Quarterly, Interior Journal, Et Cetera, and others. They have presented artwork in collaboration with organisations such as SIGNAL, Midsumma, City of Melbourne, City of Greater Dandenong, RMIT University, Deakin University, Chisholm TAFE, CAST, Platform Arts, and Connection Arts Space.

Their multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with ecology and sustainability, gender and personal identity, and the built and existing environment, whilst placing value on process, sentimentality, and connection. To them, poetry is a backbone & a revelation

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Sat, 6 Jul 2024, 2pm - 3:30pm AEST

Library at The Dock

Docklands VIC, Australia

Hosted by Phoebe Thompson