Sensory & Mindfulness Poetry Workshop with Mimma Tornatora
Event description
As part of The Victoria Park Writers' Festival, join renown local published poet, author, editor and facilitator, Mimma Tornatora will demonstrate a sensory approach to stimulating the poetic writing process by creating and writing beautiful poetry that will leave an everlasting impact on its readers.
A mindfulness and mediative approach will also be used to allow for relaxation to reenergise the cerebral cortex to produce beauty on the page. Participants will leave the workshop with several early draft poems to be continued and explored in their own time and space.
Format:
1. Welcome and introductions.
2. Participants will be asked to write down their intentions for the poetry writing workshop. Intentions will be kept private and revealed at the end of the workshop.
3. Session 1: Participants will be invited to partake in a Cold Writing Poetry Task for appropriately 5-10minutes. The objective of this task is to gage the difficulties of writing without a stimulus and without preparing the mind, body and soul to propel creatively. Opportunities to share the experience will be encouraged.
4. Session 2: Participants will engage to learn how to prepare their mind body and soul to be ACTIVELY READY TO WRITE WITH PURPOSE AND CONVICTION. The use of a variety of mediums will be used to prepare, engage and stimulate the five senses to bring poetic creativity to the page.
5. Session 3: Participants will partake in a Post Meditative Poetic Writing Task. Meditative writing music will play for approximately 15-20 minutes and during this time, participants will write poetry. At the end of the session, a sharing opportunity will be encouraged with reflective questions to stimulate discussion.
7. Each participant will be encouraged to reveal and share the intentions that were set at the beginning of the workshop.
Key information
Saturday 13th April, 2024
2.00 – 3.30pm
The Connect Victoria Park Inc – 5 Mackie Street, Victoria Park. WA. 6100
Free Event 16+
Bookings essential
BYO: pen & note book
Light refreshments provided
Biography Mimma Tornatora
Mimma Tornatora wears many hats in the Town of Victoria Park community. She is a published local poet and author, teacher, editor, facilitator and lover of all things pertaining to POETRY.
Mimma recently won the 2024 Town of Victoria Park Arts Grant in which she has used to stage The Victoria Park Writers Festival this year. She hopes it will become an annual event.
Mimma is also the founder and facilitator of the newly formed Victoria Park Poetry Club which meets monthly at the Victoria Park Library. The next gathering is on Thursday 23rd May at 6.00pm.
To add to Mimma's credentials:
- She also co-edited Collectanae, an anthology written by the local Chapters Writing Group in 2023.
- Contributed to the Blackboy Hill Is Calling historical writing project in collaboration with the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre.
- Founded and facilitated Poets’ Corner in Carnarvon.
- Judged the Nestle` Write Around Australia competition.
Mimma is currently working on a collection of poems which will become her debut publication in the near future. Watch this space.
This event is proudly funded and supported by the Town of Victoria Park through their Arts Grants.