Join us in the Perennial Garden at Olbrich Botanical Gardens on Wednesday, August 12, 5:00-7:00pm for a poetry workshop with Aurora Shimshak, part of NeuroArts Festival organized by the community curation project, LAB^4. There will be 12 spots available.
In this workshop, writers will be encouraged to ground in place. We will cultivate awareness of all five senses in Olbrich’s Perennial Garden. This workshop includes a walking tour led by an Olbrich gardener. After learning a little bit more about the plants and animals around us, we will each find a spot to write poems inspired by our experiences in the garden. In closing, we will share our work with one another, at each of our chosen spots. If participants agree, composer JG Everest will print and mount the poems written during this workshop and place them at each writer’s spot, as part of the larger Sound Garden installation events later in the week.
There will also be an opportunity for participants to read their poems live in a poetry walking tour as part of the sound garden event on Saturday Aug 15th at 3pm! Please reach out to mattsky75@gmail.com with questions or interest.
No previous experience necessary. Registrants under 16 years of age are to be accompanied by an adult.
This event is full but you may join the waitlist below.
