Poetry Writing for Nature Explorers – GET WILD ABOUT WETLANDS
Event description
Poetry Writing for Nature Explorers
Read, write, and create your own nature poetry
Have a play with language and words as we explore a bush trail around Bibra Lake. Uncover beautiful nature, interesting plants and animals, and their cool features that spark the imagination. Express your joy with little poems that you get to take back home with you!
The activity also includes playing a game of wildlife bingo to add more fun to the fun!
Age: 8-12-year-olds accompanied by adults
Schedule: Saturday, 21st January 2023
Duration: 2 hours, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
What to bring:
- sunscreen
- full water bottle
What to wear:
- closed in shoes
- long trousers
- raincoat/umbrella
Price: $10 per child, adults to accompany children (concession/free tickets available, please contact us)
Parents/accompanying adults must register adult tickets. Please note that registrations are essential for everyone attending.
GET WILD ABOUT WETLANDS
The Wetlands Centre Cockburn conducts Get Wild About Wetlands school holiday programs every school term break. offers a range of exciting educational sessions, hands-on activities, and eco-walks, talks and night stalks, activities which focus on our wetlands! Registrations are essential. Be quick as sessions book out fast!
This program is made possible thanks to the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, Lotterywest and State Natural Resource Management Program WA.
Supported by the City of Cockburn.
About the Presenter
Lakshmi Kanchi is an emerging Western Australian poet of Indian descent. Her poetry explores love and its tumultuousness, fantasy and zest in nature, and allegories that provoke thought and evoke tender feelings. Her writing anatomises the complex linkages between history, language, culture, perception, and nature.
She is a Centre for Stories fellow and the recipient of the 2021 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets. Her poem "Watermarks" was shortlisted for the South Coast Writers Centre's 2022 Poetry Prize. She is the current Poet-in-Residence at The Wetlands Centre Cockburn where she is working towards making poetry accessible to everyone in the wider community.