SEGMENTS: Voices on paper

This stand-alone session will aim to explore the personal, the collective, and the poetic out loud.

Through telling stories, the world will keep living, and through voicing the truth, the world will have to listen. In phonetics, a segment represents the “smallest distinct part of a spoken utterance, especially with regards to vowel and consonant sounds rather than stress or intonation”.

A sequence of segments can be small, and scattered, but loud. In this session, we are invited to form a circle of equals and use our voices and our words to talk about the world as it unfolds in our presence. Following that, we will co-create a poem that will carry our voices across to a more liberating future that will begin from our collective creative experience.

Background:

The Muted Minds therapeutic poetry sessions invite participants to delve into an exchange of words, punctuation marks, and experiences thereby co-creating a poem alongside others. “Docupoetry”, or else documentary poetry, is a form of socially engaged poetry that combines non-literary forms of writing with personal observations, and it is based upon the universal character of the language.

Grounded in the universality of language and the use of the poetic, the sessions aim to provide a collective experience that captures the essence of “Docupoetry” facilitating an exploration of the interplay between words and personal encounters that can offer a ‘healing’ outcome. The universality of language shared inclusively amongst the participants, lays the groundwork for the therapeutic essence of the process.

Participants are not required to prepare or bring anything as all materials will be provided. There is also no requirement for familiarity with creative writing, as no prior experience is necessary. The session will be guided and stand-alone, but time-sensitive in respect of everyone's schedules, thus you are kindly asked to be punctual.

Extra details:

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Therapeutic poetry workshop with Muted Minds

Saturday, 29 June*

2 PM - 4 PM

HOLYROOD PARK

Wooded Area, opposite the Holyrood Palace

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Muted Minds ( IG: @mutedmindscircles, email: [email protected]) is a creative community project that takes place in themed cycles of stand-alone sessions and aims to empower our realities and inspire creativity. It is driven by the therapeutic purpose of language and poetry when shared equally and explored evenly by recording narratives of the present and hopes for the future.

*In the event of rain, the session will be moved to Sunday, 30 June, and if Sunday is rainy, then it will be moved to the end of July. Refunds will be issued to those unable to attend the rescheduled session at the organiser's earliest convenience. For further inquiries, please contact [email protected].

Host or Publisher Muted Minds