Living Language Writing Workshop: translating real life into fiction
About this Event
We all have a story inside us to tell. Even if it is something highly fictional, there is often an element of our own experience woven into the words. This workshop explores how fiction is an essential way to talk about living moments that can be brought to the page.
Whether it is something challenging we need to talk about or a way to celebrate the mundane moments, the workshop will share techniques on how to focus in, expand and express how to take real life experience and translate it to practice. There will be generative methods and techniques to open your senses and allow the personal to arrive safely to the page. All languages welcome! The workshop will be facilitated in English but we encourage people to write in all languages
Kyla Bourgh is author and illustrator of “French Ending- Un fin Française” a book about her time at a residency in France, the stories chronicle her attempts to learn French and her connections with a group of artists and writers while there. French Ending- Une fin française was published in 2026 by Claraquel Ediciones a Argentinian publisher who focuses on creating books where the visual and narrative enhance each other.
This writing workshop will be followed by the exhibition opening of the illustrations and a trilingual (French- English-Spanish) reading of French Ending- Une fin française at 5pm. There is an opportunity to get your book or print signed!
Check-in 1:40pm
Workshop 2-4pm (with breaks)
Opening 4:30pm- browse the exhibition
Trilingual Reading followed by Q&A 5pm
Bulla Cafe closes at 6pm
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 10.83 to CAD 48.31
