Words for Wellbeing Workshop for 16-18 year olds

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Aston Stylistics Research Centre

An opportunity to take part in a poetry workshop focusing on lockdown experiences. Part of the 2023 ESRC Festival of Social Science.

Aston University

Words for Wellbeing will be a friendly and accessible workshop exploring our experiences of reading during the Covid-19 lockdown and discussing the types of reading material we were drawn to. We will think about practical ways people coped during lockdown: from the perspectives of those shielding or isolating, through to frontline workers thrust into the heart of the pandemic, and hear a variety of poetry, exploring some of the ways these might create empathy and solidarity – or any other emotion – through creative techniques such as colour imagery, metaphor and personification.We will discover or refresh a variety of poetic devices to help us paint vivid pictures with our own words and communicate effectively through poetry as a creative outlet to reflect on our own lockdown experiences and those of others.Everyone will be encouraged, guided and supported during the workshop to take part in the creative activities and to write their own poems. The workshop is suitable for anyone who would like to take part – you do not need to have written poetry before!All resources will be provided in a dyslexia friendly format to make the workshop as inclusive and accessible as possible.A﻿ston University is easy to get to - we are close to New Street Station in the centre of Birmingham. See <a href="https://www.aston.ac.uk/about/visit" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here </a>for details of how to reach us! This event is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

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