As part of a partnership between Inspired Word Café’s Say Anything/Something, a community-based performance and workshop series, and the SpokenWeb Institute, we are thrilled to present a two-part poetry workshop led by local artists and community organizers Erin Scott and Cole Mash!
This workshop invites writers at all stages and experience levels to engage in a learning and sharing environment.
No registration necessary—spots are first come, first served. This event is free to attend.
About the workshop: In this two-part workshop, award winning poets and community organizers Erin Scott and Cole Mash will guide participants through the process of taking a poem from a printed text up through the body to the audience (whether live or mediatized). Through play, practice, and dialogue, participants will explore the fundamental considerations of voiced, embodied, and mediatized poetic performance in order to begin creating and performing works of Spoken Word poetry.
Location: UBC Okanagan, CCS Building, Room 144
Time:
Workshop Part 1: 1:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Workshop Part 2: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
About Erin Scott: Erin (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar who works in time-based mediums, including writing, performance, and video/audio. With publications and performances across forms, they have made spoken word albums, books, exhibitions, drag performances, Fringe shows, scholarly articles, social and community art, videopoems and more. As a PhD student at The University of British Columbia Okanagan, her research enquires about the relationship between land, language, and belonging, noting the parallels and divergences between Scottish Gaelic people and Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. Using research-creation methods for Gaelic language revitalization, their dissertation proposes complex questions of belonging from a colonized and colonizer perspective. With a focus on the importance of language for diasporic and national Scottish and Canadian identities, her work asks: ‘where do you belong?’. Erin lives on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Syilx Okanagan peoples. Find more here: www.erinhscott.com
About Dr. Cole Mash: Cole is a poet, scholar, and community-arts organizer from Kelowna, BC. He has performed poetry locally and nationally for over 10 years, and his creative work has been published in magazines and presses throughout Canada. Cole’s critical work has been published in Scholarly and Research Communication and the SpokenWeb Blog, and he co-edited the collection of essays Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound from McGill-Queen’s University Press. He holds a PhD in English from Simon Fraser University, is co-founder of non-profit arts organization Inspired Word Café, and teaches English and Creative Writing at Okanagan College.
Our programming is made possible by the City of Kelowna, the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan, and the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.
We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work in the unceded, ancestral territory of the Syilx people. It is a privilege to be able to put on events as uninvited guests on their land.