Lawless: freewriting & art journaling

This is a workshop for writers who love experimentation. It mixes freewriting with mixed media art to produce an art journal, which encourages rule-breaking, unbridled expression, and multi-sensory explorations of emotion.

The session starts with freewriting, with a preliminary plunder of your emotional state and current concerns, and then prompted writing using the often-forgotten senses – smell, taste, touch. Then we incorporate pattern, layers, collage, colours, and objects - and more text.

You don’t have to be an artist – after all you can write in circles or invisible ink, paint over your words, punch the page with wild colours, or burn the paper. Stick the pages together if you want total privacy!
It’s a new form of daily journal, and can help with writing blocks, new ideas, lateral thinking, and self-discovery. It’s a repository of your state of mind over time and will help you tune into your varying moods. Mainly, however, it's a lot of fun and, unlike writing, you can occasionally chat while you're doing it!

• 8 attendees
• 1st Sat of the month (except Oct/Nov when it'll be held a week early), 10am -1:20pm, in The Write Place
• Coffee to start, ending 1pm, clear-up till 1:20pm
• Refreshments provided (coffee, tea, biscuits)
• All art materials supplied!
• Also bring your own materials if you'd like: mementoes, photos, photocopies, pics, tickets, special paints, anything you may want to use

Reservation:
To reserve a spot, please click on the link immediately below and it'll take you to the Eventbrite booking system. Note: not all attendees come from Meetup so sign up early to avoid disappointment.
Lawless: freewriting and art journaling
Event fee: £35 + booking fee (£38.62)
Please text me when you've booked so I can match your Meetup name to your booking name. Thanks!
This is a non-profit, volunteer-run event; spots can only be reserved through the link.

The Write Place - on the top floor of Black Swan Arts - has a writing room and an activity room where you can help yourself to tea, coffee and biscuits. There's also a café downstairs at The Black Swan Arts Centre that serves food.

Run by Carole Enahoro
I am a writer, photographer, and former artist who has used art journaling both for therapeutic purposes and to expand my writing style.