Word by Word Presents: Writing Workshop with Lola Olufemi
Date and time
Join us this April with the amazing Lola Olufemi, for her workshop 'Writing back is not the same as fighting back' (After June Jordan).
About this event
+ This workshop is for black and people of colour only. No prior experience necessary (aged 18 or over).
Workshop description:
Using experimental methods, this writing workshop will encourage participants to write back to the conditions in which they live.
With a specific focus on the relationship between imagining, political organising and temporality it will use the archival prompts as basis for assess the value and utility of forms of political writing. This is a writing workshop about the things we want and what we will have to do to get them.
+ Let us know your accessibility needs. Our email is wordbywordcollective@gmail.com, and we will do all we can to provide what you need!
+ Further information with directions on how to get to the workshop will be sent out closer to the time.
Please arrive at the Bush Theatre at 12:45.
The workshop will run from 13:00 - 14:30.
At the end of the workshop we will ask those who can, to stay on for another 5 minutes to fill in our feedback forms - these are really important for the continuation of our funding.
What to bring to the workshop:
+ If you're able, please bring a pen and notebook.
After workshop: End of project Zine
By joining this workshop you are also invited to share any work you have written, whether during the workshop or in your own time to us for our Zine: Issue 2.
The Zine will be a celebration and showcase of you and your works, and will launch mid-summer at the end of the project with an event at The Bush Theatre!
Submissions are open now. Please email them to wordbywordcollective.com or contact us for more details. If you would not like to be contacted further about the zine following workshop, you can opt-out by contacting us at the above address.
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Covid Health & Safety Measures
+ We ask that everyone takes a lateral flow test no more than 24 hours before attending the workshop.
Hand sanitizer will be available. Further details will be sent out following registration.
In the event of Cancellation
Please note, should the workshop be unable to go ahead in person (e.g. due to a host or members of staff self-isolating), the workshop will be moved to Zoom and links will be sent out to all ticket holders to join.
Privacy Notice
Following the workshop you will be sent a feedback form and equality survey, which we would be grateful if you could complete as it helps us understand our reach and to make sure that our workshops are as welcoming as possible and. Please click the following link to view our privacy policy:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1swctdbGF8D4yBoJw5UFE7ECQKlxgiszZQTpd4vh6mjw/edit?usp=sharing
LOLA OLUFEMI
Photo by Robin Christian
Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and CREAM/Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London based at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity.
She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021) and a member of 'bare minimum', an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective.
