ExPLORING GRAPHIC POETRY: WHEN THE FORM BECOMES THE CONTENT

A Planet Earth Poetry Workshop
with Chantal Gibson

Saturday April 30, 10:30–12:30

WHERE? A comfortable private Victoria home by the Gorge. Directions upon registration.

WHAT? Chantal writes: What does it mean to make a poem? This 2hr workshop explores the idea of making poetry and what happens when written text becomes an image. This workshop will merge the writing studio and art studio into a blurred space where hand writing and graphic design combine to visually represent meaningful, emotional content. 

About CHANTAL

Chantal Gibson is an award-winning artist and educator living on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. Working in the overlap between literary and visual art, her work confronts colonialism head on, imagining the BIPOC voices silenced in the spaces and omissions left by cultural and institutional erasure. Her visual art has been exhibited across Canada and the US. Her collection How She Read won the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and was nominated for that year’s Griffin Poetry Award

REGISTRATION: $45.00.
Max 10 participants, full vaccination required.

Contact Barbara Pelman barbarapelman@gmail.com 
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Make out cheques to Planet Earth Poetry, e-transfers to pepoetry2@gmail.com. Your cheque or e-transfer will hold your place. Please be aware of PEP’s cancellation policy: no refunds after April 25. Make sure there is room in the workshop before you send your cheque or email.

INDIGENOUS BURSARIES

PEP workshops reserve two bursaries for participants who identify as Indigenous and who register by April 21. Please identify yourself to Barbara Pelman when you register. Please note that bursaries will be given on a first-come first-served basis, and are open to all who identify as Indigenous with no further adjudication.