Get inspired. Get creative. Keep the conversation going.

In the lead up to COP26, the climate debate is becoming louder and we want to keep the volume turned up! This is a pivotal opportunity for world leaders to step up and commit to concrete action to implement the Paris Agreement.

The COP 26 conference signifies a moment of crisis and a moment of hope.

So why a poetry workshop?

Art is an important part of a healthy, dynamic, and compassionate culture; a way that we can connect with and communicate our feelings. Where facts and science form the basis of a logical argument, art allows us to connect with that argument on an emotional level - to feel and express what it means to us. We need both. We need people to understand the gravity of the emergency we are facing, and we need to inspire them to action.

So with that in mind, we invite you to join us and our neighbours Studio KIND. to keep the conversation going at our poetry workshop: URGENT! An ecopoetry screening and workshop.

The workshop will involve:
A screening of a series of short films as part of the Hot Poets project, run by Liv Torc and Chris Redmond and featuring a plethora of poets from across the country who have been tasked to produce poems that will what’s really going on in the fight for the planet and their visions for a better and possible future
Short break to allow for discussion and tea drinking
One hour workshop hosted by our own resident poet Tia Meraki (aka our Operations Assistant), creating collaborative and individual poems on the theme of climate change and sustainable behaviour change, taking inspiration from the films and also from some of our beach and community clean finds

Everyone is welcome whether you’re a practicing poet or have never knowingly rhymed a couplet.

Date: 14 November 2021
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Location: Kind Studio, Unit 3, Velator Way, Braunton, North Devon, EX33 2FB

Suggested Donation: £5 with all profits going towards Plastic Free North Devon’s work protecting our local environment for generations to come.

Spaces are limited so please book in advance here