YWF 2024 Workshop with Louie Leyson

YWF 2024 Work Shop with Louie Leyson

Join us for an exciting workshop with the one and only Louie Leyson at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre! This in-person event will be a fantastic opportunity to learn from a talented artist and gain new insights into the world of art. Don't miss out on this unique chance to expand your skills and connect with fellow art enthusiasts. See you there!

About the workshop Ekphrasis: Ways of Looking at the North

‘Ekphrasis’ refers to the practice of writing in response to visual art. The ekphrastic writer documents what springs in that mysterious space between an artist’s work and a poet’s gaze. I wield ‘ekphrasis’ to name a mode of attention. When we pay close enough notice, any detail in an artwork—whether in painting or in poetry—can gift us a glimpse into the world of an artist, the world we inhabit, and then into the realms of ourselves.

We twirl into a room of paintings, or a library of poems, and often find ourselves caught in a corridor of mirrors. Reflections of our waking and interior lives can wink at us from the startle of a colour, the surprise of a word. As an interdisciplinary practice ekphrasis teaches the poet how to look, and then look closer.

In this workshop we’ll examine the ekphrastic works of poets such as Victoria Chang, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kevin Young, and Anne Carson, and the poetic strategies that propel their responses to the works of artists like Edward Hopper and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Informed by our study of poetic modes of looking, we’ll together generate new writing in conversation with Yukon’s rich creative landscape, training our newly sharpened eye onto the works of local artists.

Brown Bag Lunch

While lunch at 12pm is free for all YWF attendees. Registration is required to reduce food waste. Please find the form here https://forms.gle/2fbEtXGb8D5txJ7T9

The only way to register for a brown bag lunch is through the google form! The first 50 people to register be guarenteed lunch.

Exchange and Refund Policy

Please choose your tickets carefully. There will be no exchanges or refunds except in the case of event cancellation.

Photographs and Recordings

No flash photography, video, or audio recording please.

Accessibility

Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre is our venue for Saturday and Sunday. On Friday night our venue is the Old Firehall. Both locations are wheelchair accessible. If additional accommodations are needed, please contact us at [email protected] with Accessibility in the subject line.

To see the full schedule of events please visit www.yukonwords.ca

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