NWP writing workshop at the Whitechapel Art Gallery
A Handful of Dust Writing Workshop for Teachers
Thu 22 Jun, 5–7pm
Free, booking required (click here to book your free place)
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Led by the Jeni Smith and Simon Wrigley of the National Writing Project, this informal workshop will give teachers the opportunity to write personal responses, reflections and ideas inspired by A Handful of Dust — an exhibition with strong literary connections. NWP say: ‘Teachers who meet and write together gain particular understandings of the nature of writing and their subsequent confidence and personal knowledge has a powerful effect in their classrooms.’
Provisional programme below:
A handful of dust
Whitechapel Gallery
NWP teachers’ writing workshop, Thurs 22 June 2017, 5-7 pm
Leaders: Jeni Smith and Simon Wrigley (nwp.org.uk)
(photograph from the exhibition – Photographer unknown Press Print 1959. A man takes a nap on a bench in Peace Park Hiroshima, while across the river stands the ruin of the Industrial Exhibition Gallery which stood immediately beneath the explosion point of the bomb)
Outline programme
5:00 Study Studio: Welcome and introductions – a chance to discover writing in a trusted space.
The context of NWP (UK) – how teachers benefit from writing together - in galleries and elsewhere
5:10 Words on the air – a list of perspectives, symbols, sounds, echoes, patterns, associations, connections ...
5:20 Moving into story - TSEliot, John Hersey, Naomi Shahib Nye – our own personal stories within literature and history
Titles – sharing, talking and writing – contours, distances, layers, voices, places and displacement ...
5:45 Galleries: Scavenging and responding in ‘A handful of dust’ – rediscovering words and phrases in different settings – writing from the inside out
6:30 Study Studio: Sharing the writing process in pairs – starting points, difficult passages, next steps - awareness of writing’s breaks, births and bridges
6:45 Whole group sharing and responding to each other’s writing – divergence and convergence
6:55 How teachers might take things forward – for themselves and for their pupils/students
7:00 Finish
Whitechapel Gallery
NWP teachers’ writing workshop, Thurs 22 June 2017, 5-7 pm
Leaders: Jeni Smith and Simon Wrigley (nwp.org.uk)
(photograph from the exhibition – Photographer unknown Press Print 1959. A man takes a nap on a bench in Peace Park Hiroshima, while across the river stands the ruin of the Industrial Exhibition Gallery which stood immediately beneath the explosion point of the bomb)
Outline programme
5:00 Study Studio: Welcome and introductions – a chance to discover writing in a trusted space.
The context of NWP (UK) – how teachers benefit from writing together - in galleries and elsewhere
5:10 Words on the air – a list of perspectives, symbols, sounds, echoes, patterns, associations, connections ...
5:20 Moving into story - TSEliot, John Hersey, Naomi Shahib Nye – our own personal stories within literature and history
Titles – sharing, talking and writing – contours, distances, layers, voices, places and displacement ...
5:45 Galleries: Scavenging and responding in ‘A handful of dust’ – rediscovering words and phrases in different settings – writing from the inside out
6:30 Study Studio: Sharing the writing process in pairs – starting points, difficult passages, next steps - awareness of writing’s breaks, births and bridges
6:45 Whole group sharing and responding to each other’s writing – divergence and convergence
6:55 How teachers might take things forward – for themselves and for their pupils/students
7:00 Finish