Poetry Workshop · A Ballad of Transformation with Ella Frears
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Poet Ella Frears will lead a workshop in response to the animated films and drawings of French artist Christine Rebet. During this three-hour session, participants will look at texts by writers who deal with similar themes of history and trickery as well as personal, political and environmental traumas. Drawing on our individual and collective histories create new poems that shift and transform, that resist stillness and refuse to be quiet.
Poetry workshops at Parasol unit are produced in collaboration with Poetry School. Founded in 1997, Poetry School is a national arts organisation providing inspiring tuition and opportunities for poets and poetry audiences.
Suitable for 16+, Writers of all levels and styles welcome – no prior experience with poetry necessary.
Ella Frears is a poet and visual artist based in London. She’s had work published in the LRB, Ambit, and Poetry London among others and currently has poems on show at Tate St Ives. Ella was a finalist for the Arts Foundation Poetry Fellowship and was commended in the National Poetry Competition. Her first collection is Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books 2020).
Organiser Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
Organiser of Poetry Workshop · A Ballad of Transformation with Ella Frears
Founded in 2004, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is a non-profit art institution and registered educational charity that does not bear the founder’s name and operates purely for public benefit. Every year the foundation organises four challenging and thought-provoking exhibitions by British and international contemporary artists working in various media, and are usually documented by an accompanying publication. The foundation also holds various artist projects and engages with the public and neighbouring community through a full programme of educational events for children, young people and adults. Thanks to an innovative model between private funding and public support one of London’s most vibrant contemporary art spaces has come to exist and thrives. Admission to all exhibitions at Parasol unit is free of charge.
