Sat 14 Sept
|The Observer Building
WORKSHOP: Craig Jordan-Baker - Nature Writing Workshop
Noting, Noticing and Knowing: With a few new words, you can see nature differently. By paying closer attention to leaf, weed and bough, we can also pay closer attention to ourselves.
Time & Location
14 Sept 2024, 10:00 – 13:00
The Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Rd, Hastings TN34 1DT, UK
About The Event
Noticing the natural world is key to writing about it.
This three-hour workshop is about engaging with our immediate environment and deepening that engagement, in terms of both our senses and the many ways language and story ‘open up’ space.
We will focus on developing vocabularies of the natural world, and how, in doing this, we can come to see nature and natural spaces with more precision, nuance and wonder. Starting inside with some observational exercises, we will then take a walk around Cornwallis Gardens to test our knowledge and descriptive skills.
The workshop will allow some time for all participants to work on a short piece of writing, before being given the opportunity to share your words and insights with the group.
NB: There will be an opportunity for an outdoor element (weather permitting). However, if for any reason participants do not wish to go out there will be…