Dreaming Ecosystems: Film Poetry Workshop

Mar. 14 & 15, 11 am – 5 pm at Common OBJECTS

Zoom in on plant matter as an inspiration for poetry and a material for film. Join Cadence for a poetry workshop, a dream matrix, a discussion of video poetry, and a 16mm film collage workshop that will seed new understandings of native and invasive plant species, deepen our relationship with biodiversity, and dig into the impact of personal roots on ecosystems.

During this generative workshop, we will interpret our changing environment and our role within it. Across millennia, media, and art movements, flowers, ferns, and mosses have provided creative inspiration for their beauty and symbolism.

As the consequences of our changing climate become visible within our lifetimes, we’re bringing a new lens to plants and what their presence or absence reveals about human nature and the natural world.

**Free community access is available, please contact us at [email protected] if cost is a barrier.**

Info: From the beginnings of video poetry to the contemporary and local, Cadence co-director Chelsea Werner-Jatzke shares examples of video poetry for conversation and inspiration on the themes and creative approaches to combining your poetry generated on day one, to the 16mm film workshop today.

Info: Share your night dreams (recent and/or distant) in a supportive, collaborative space hosted by dream worker Rana San and explore the collective associations and insights that arise. This reflective process is designed to unlock new cognitive pathways and seed new perspectives.

Info: What can we grow in the spaces between word and image? Guided by artist and poet Mita Mahato, participants will take inspiration from how plants breathe, feed, communicate, attract and repulse, grow and move, in order to make poems that echo, ease, and answer ecosystemic longing. Activities will be both individual and collaborative, and participants will be invited to experiment with several visual-poetic forms, including comix, collage, erasure, and concrete poetry.

Info: Seattle-based filmmaker Caryn Cline introduces the “botanicollage” technique, made famous by Stan Brakhage and his film, “Mothlight.”

Info: Participants will create handmade film frames using local botanicals, art materials and film supplies to produce a short film that will screen during Cadence Video Poetry Festival in April. Botanicals and filmmaking materials will be supplied. Participants are invited to bring their own botanicals and a willingness to experiment and make mistakes.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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