The Present Page: WORKSHOP 5

Workshop 5: Letting your ears wander – with Martin Parker

By exploring ways of listening and mapping out what we have heard, this workshop offers a way to silence the chat within and start a new conversation with the sounding world around us. We will note the difference between passive and active listening and find ways to listen beyond ourselves whether at work, in the middle of an argument or trying to get to sleep. Expect to develop new approaches to enjoying music and the soundscape of daily life.

Creative forms of journalling offer an accessible, personal and often genuinely illuminating reflective practice, with the potential to make a quiet but lasting difference to our wellbeing. But how do we make space for these kinds of activity in daily life, and how might we expand them beyond conventional, diary-like narratives?

Beginning with the core idea of journalling and the page, expanding outward to where journalling meetings drawing, movement, storytelling and sound, The Present Page offers a series of 6 practical workshops, each led by experienced artist-practitioners. In each session we will explore a new creative practice together in a friendly and no-pressure environment, also considering how each practice might be folded into busy daily routines.

Thanks to Create Berwick funding, we are delighted to be able to offer The Present Page free of charge to Berwick residents. All materials and refreshments are provided, and no previous experience is needed. Places are limited; please book early to reserve a place.

Other workshops in this series:

Workshop 1: From writing into drawing – with Anna Chapman Parker

Workshop 2: Drawing with mind and body – with Kate Temple

Workshop 3: Storytelling and personal narrative – with Chris Adriaanse

Workshop 4: Journalling and the book – with Lucy Baxandall

Workshop 6: Writing and movement – with Chloë Sayers

Martin Parker is a composer and sound artist based in Berwick-upon-Tweed. He is a senior lecturer in sound design and composition at The University of Edinburgh. tinpark.com