Creative Club workshops are limited to a maximum of 9 participants. Email me directly, if you would like to go on the reserve list and I will let you know if a place becaome available: re381@exeter.ac.uk.
Email: re381@exeter.ac.uk if you would like to be on the reserve list for the below event:
When | Wednesday 26th March 2025, 2 – 4pm
Where | Streatham Campus, Bryne House Seminar Room
One of the trickiest things in working across and between disciplines is sitting comfortably with the different kinds of language we use to talk about what we do. Not knowing what’s going on, or feeling that someone wants something from you that you just can’t provide, can sometimes drive you away from a project, when, in fact, it really is down to recognising each others disciplinary anxieties.
In this session we’ll play around with collaging texts we feel at home in with texts that are the equivalent of a shipwreck on an island of strange voices. In between these different ways of conceptualising disciplines and practices, we’ll try to write bridges, establish fording points, make kite strings to grab hold of that which will lift us and let us island hop. Metaphor and play will be at the fore as we grapple and melt each others disciplinary strongholds.
Please send in or bring along a text that you feel best represents the characteristics of your discipline and we’ll go from there. Mostly we’ll be talking between short acts of writing and doodling, licking sticking, but by the end of it we may have some writing that holds together an exciting range of texts that have become more than the sum of their parts through respectful and teasing negotiation.
About your workshop host
Professor John Wedgwood Clarke is a Professor of Poetry, English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. He is also Academic Director for Arts and Culture (Exeter Campuses) and a Co-director of Biodiversity and People Network at the University of Exeter.