I welcome everyone into the workshop.
With my students there’s no need to introducing each other so we chat informally for a few minutes.
We start 5 min after with the icebreaker.
They write uninterruptedly for 5 minutes about anything that comes to their mind. Some of my students wrote about the weather, their breakfast, their cats, their mental health, what they could see from their window.
We share. There’s often crossovers and it makes it a good introduction of writing and personal.
we go for the next exercise.
Choose a paragraph from a piece of text (it can be a stanza of a poem, a chorus of a song, a paragraph from book, a sentence from a review). It can be from a book you are reading now; from an exhibition you saw last week, etc.
You start by copying exactly what is written and then you continue what´s written in the same style, the same tense with the idea of incorporating your interests.
We then share with each other and this opens up a conversation of ways of writing. What forms of writing can we do in our practices?
We also posted what are the emojis that we most use =)
We then move one to the exercise that is making their writing and practice.
I encourage the students to write while they are discussing the topics and to finalise it at home.
Some of the topics are from the Unit Guidelines of Unit 3 BA Fine Art and some are from a session on PGCert by Laura Knight.