As part of Say Anything/Something, a community-based performance and workshop series, Inspired Word Café is thrilled to present a multi-modal workshop lead by writer jaz papadopoulos!
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: We may read with our eyes, but we feel the text with our whole bodies. In this workshop, we will alternate between writing exercises, reading short excerpts of source material, and group discussion. The focus is how concrete visual imagery—especially colour—can bring abstract descriptions to life, and evoke senses beyond just the visual. Participants of all backgrounds (and all genres) are welcome! Feel free to bring a draft in progress, or nothing at all.
About jaz: jaz papadopoulos (they/them) is a queer diasporic interdisciplinary writer/artist/educator/party planner. A self-described emotionalist and avid Anne Carson fan, jaz likes talking about media, horticulture, lyricism, nervous systems, anti-Imperialism and erotics. Their debut poetry collection, I Feel That Way Too, is published with Nightwood Editions. They are currently working on their second collection, a chapbook on the sacred, in conjunction with the St. Boniface Hospital’s Spiritual Care Services and the Buhler Gallery in Winnipeg, MB. jaz lives in Canada on syilx land. Find them online at textualdealings.com.
The Alternator Centre is located in the Rotary Centre for the Arts and is wheelchair accessible. Bathrooms are gendered stalled washrooms, with a single, gender neutral and wheelchair accessible washroom available.
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.
Artwork by Gold Bard