Creative Writing Workshop: ‘History Makers as Creative Inspiration’

Description

Create your own work inspired by objects and artworks within our History Makers: Unfolded Exhibition.

We are all History Makers, and this workshop accompanying Derby Museums’ exhibition helps to celebrate and explore that via looking at artefacts and pictures of Derby’s truly remarkable female makers and icons.  Hosted by award winning poet and short fiction writer, Deborah Tyler-Bennett, the workshop considers how themes and images from the exhibition can be used as inspiration for creative writing.  Over two hours (with a short break) writers will select their favourite and most inspiring museum objects/ artworks and create new work from them as one legacy of this exhibition.  So, come along, be creative – and make a bit of history of your own.

About Deborah Tyler-Bennett

‘Deborah Tyler-Bennett is an award winning poet, short fiction writer, visual artist and performer. As well as eight books of poems published by various presses including Smokestack and Shoestring, and three volumes of linked short fictions, she has also written text packs and co-edited books for museums, on creative writing. Museums and galleries she has worked for and/ or performed at include Keats House Hampstead, The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Wellcome Collection and The Usher Gallery, Lincoln. Most recent works include a project at Nanpantan Hall Leicestershire (Labours Lost) which led to a short film by Pudding Bag Productions and the chapbook Servants and Labourers (Time/ Place/ Memory, 2022) and Standing in this Place (Nottingham/ Writing East Midlands, 2022). Recent performances include one at Arundel Arts Junction (2023). She teaches adult education sessions for the WEA, including in Derby.’

Suitable for those aged 18 and over.

Paper and pens to be provided – participants are welcome to bring their own notepads and writing materials

Main Image (c) Pictoria Pictures

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