Six One Hour Weekly Sessions

This course aims to offer tools to support and inspire your own creative writing and poetry.

This course entwines art and nature to experience the wonders of wildlife and green spaces all around us in a more mindful way, this includes our gardens, city parks, woods, nature reserves and beyond. Nature will tangle and entwine throughout the six-week sessions in varying ways, as it speaks to Poetry, Creative Writing and Art. Yet, Poetry, Creative Writing and Art will also be explored beyond the themes of nature, to converse together with literary devices such as ekphrasis, in which a visual work of art is described in detail, how to structure narrative, holding readers, writing backwards, writing with joy whilst learning from British, Irish and Indigenous poetry and creative writing.

The course will encompass LGBTQIA+ topics whilst decolonising, thinking with the power of creativity and nature collectively whilst having fun. All sessions will be 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 course is 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.

Week 1: Art and Nature – Part 1

Week 2: Art and Nature – Part 2

Week 3: Creative Writing

Week 3: Poetry

Week 4: Art and Ekphrasis

Week 5: Reflecting on interactions between nature and human beings

 Week 6: Bringing together Art, Nature, Creative Writing and Poetry