Teaching and Facilitating
Supporting young and adult learners to craft their own visual stories is at the heart of what inspires Marie Theresa’s practice. She is a passionate Arts professional with over 20 years of experience in creative roles predominantly in the education sector, and additionally for corporate brands, charities and the Arts. Marie Theresa has been teaching advanced digital media and vocational technician-ship to adults and young learners on many different platforms and for a variety of institutions.
Communal Projects with Schools
Year 6 Animated Poetry
Pupils crafted their own visual stories into moving images of their chosen poems. Pupils decided roles from director, to actors and animated their poems in short films. These were then screened at a Film Oscars evening to the school and local community.
Adult Collaborators
Community Projects
4-6 Week Interactive Online Creative Writing and Poetry Courses
Devised from scratch to facilitate open spaces where diverse groups of people can meet weekly to learn, try and discuss about creative writing and poetry. Let’s pause, listen to words, move and write together.
These workshops aim to offer tools to support and inspire creative writing and poetry practice. During the workshops, members collectively explore ways of conversing between their individual and collective bodies and that of the textual and filmic bodies
The workshop spaces seek to move through non-hierarchical conversations and to the unexpected sociability of the unknown encounters ahead, to pose a speculative space to think with the temporalities of creative writing and poetry practice. To offer a meditative space to explore together.
Courses in 2024 have been inspired by Dublin Art Book Fair, Ireland’s leading art book fair and Wendy Erskine's theme Polyphonic:
‘Erskine writes, "multiple voices; multiple narratives; multiple perspectives: the polyphonic. Whether it’s simultaneous or sequenced, whether it’s in visual art, text or sound, let’s celebrate polyphony in all its complexity and contrariness. Let’s explore this non-hierarchical, democratic mode which allows for plurality of expression and response. The polyphonic, a challenge to the controlling, totalising ‘I'."‘
The courses encompass LGBTQIA+ topics whilst decolonising, thinking with the power and joy of creativity and nature collectively. All sessions are full of inspiration from artists, poets and writers, as well as practical activities to try within and beyond, which includes online resources crafted especially for members of the course. The courses are aimed at all those seeking to be more mindful in their everyday and looking for tools to release their own creativity. Each week, there is space for members to share thoughts and their own creativity and ask questions.
Topics include:
Entering with joy - how to write with joy – practical activities
How to plant and write together - Vietnamese Immigration Garden at Documenta Fifteen 2022
Thinking kinship with Octavia E.Butler
How to navigate writing personal histories, looking to Saidiya Hartman for inspiration – ‘Wayward Lives, Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals’
How to write backwards - how to reorientate ourselves
Working with writing prompts to write within the session and to take beyond
How to structure narrative and holding readers
Delving into Point of View
Thinking with the work of Janet Malcolm, who has delved into biographical convention – starting with photos given, then using personal photographs as writing prompts (members to bring a photo to the session)
Exploring autopoesis, Denise Ferreira da Silva and ‘writing the self into being’
Exploring the stories of Irish writer Claire Keegan
Thinking with Irish artist Jesse Jones, how do we feel inspired by her work?
Nature and Haikus – lets write our own together
Pathways with Indigenous poetry
Thinking with flows of water – exploring ocean as archive and flowing writing, looking at the work of Phoebe Boswell, 2022 writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery
Embodied writing – activities within the session
Wake Work, with Christina Sharpe, how to deploy literacy terms as a methodology for resistance, attention and imagining