Let Me Tell You What I Love - A Writing Workshop

Let Me Tell You What I Love - A Writing Workshop

'I won’t be able to write from the grave / so let me tell you what I love' (Fanny Howe)

Join artist and textual flaneur Isabella Streffen at Mimosa Gallery to flirt with texts known and unknown, toy with constraints, and to explore love in all its forms, inspired by Victoria Canton’s new exhibition.

This two-hour workshop suitable for all writers of all types and experiences, borrows techniques from the visual arts to bring fresh articulations to our loves, as we make free with and take a deep dive into the love canon. We’ll make lists inspired by Fanny Howe, Roland Barthes and Sei Shonogan; feel the edges of our desires with Siken, Sappho, and June Jordan, and find new words for our unromantic loves too. Working individually and intuitively, we will create a mini-collection for the European Writers Salon 2nd anniversary.

Isabella Streffen is an artist living in rural Leicestershire. She is best known for her site-specific works, with text playing an important role in her practice. Her first book Fabulae, How It Begins, was published by Ma Bibliothèque in 2022. She is currently working on a book about kissing and a series of seven love-letter film-poems, A Speech Radical and Two Fires.

This workshop includes free entry to the salon, which takes place after from 8-10pm.

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