Next date: Saturday, 03 May 2025 | 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Historical archives and records are important places and materials for understanding past events, experiences and human values. But whose values make it into the data of ‘official’ records and how do these values frame the knowledge and materials being presented?
Such questions surge the new wave of critical archival poetry written by those whose personal or ancestral experiences are missing or mistold by the arbiters of history. This workshop is grounded in a deep place-based time that considers the chaotic 250 past years of settler-colonial invasion a violent and far-reaching palimpsest, full of gaps and contradictions.
In this workshop, we use the power of our individual and collective imaginations to sketch intimate human (and more-than-human) experiences that aren’t incorporated into ‘official’ histories. Looking to artists and poets as the great storytellers of history, we will practice techniques like ekphrasis, collaging and ‘archival imagining’ to imagine more nuanced and spacious historical worlds.
If you would like to come along and require Auslan Interpretation, please send us an email at writingprojects@darebin.vic.gov.au.
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Neika Lehman is a Trawlwoolway writer from Lutruwita / Tasmania, living and working in Naarm / Melbourne. Their poetry, non-fiction essays and criticism have been widely published. They are an RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Predoctoral Fellow.
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, 189 High Street, Northcote, 3070, View Map
189 High Street , Northcote 3070
Workshop Date
Saturday 3 May 2025, 10.30am
Venue
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre
189 High Street, Northcote
Cost
FREE to attend, bookings required
Duration
2hrs