Writer's Conversations: Speak Your Work with Maria Carbunaru

This writer’s conversation is all about speaking. Not the ‘writer’s voice’ that we embed in our writing, but the voice we use to talk about our writing.

As writers, we are often called on to speak about our work – whether to promote our work, read a passage, perform a poem, or to record an audiobook.

This workshop, led by Maria Carbunaru, contains exercises from Spolin improvisation theatre methodology that prepare the body, voice and intuition to give voice and life to your thoughts.

You will experiment with a series of warm-ups that train your feet as well as your chest, and that you can do by yourself in a period as short as 2 minutes before starting a reading to a live audience or before a recording session. Bring 5 lines from one of your notebooks and let's play

Biography:
Maria Carbunaru is a Romanian poet, anthropologist, educator and improviser, living in Porto.Her poetry has been published in Magma Poetry [UK], Mnemotope[NL], Wax Poetry [CA], the European Literary Network, and elsewhere. Her spoken word poetry performances featured at the "Babel" multicultural poetry event in Cluj-Napoca, the multidisciplinary exhibition "Protected Areas” in the Azores and at Performance Art Zone Porto. Maria recorded audiobooks for visually impaired people at the "Travelling Book Foundation" and is the founder of Meadows Renewal Experiences where she supports individual and collective renewal processes in periods of uncertainty.

Attendance is free, but please RSVP.