Friday 8 May
The Unearthed: Creative writing workshop
With Carolyn Hashimoto
11.30am-1.30pm
Booking required
Tickets on a sliding scale: £8 | £6 | £3
Dumfries-based writer Carolyn Hashimoto returns to Cample this May to lead a creative writing workshop developed alongside our current exhibition, The Unearthed by Anderson Borba.
Taking Borba’s sculptures, forms and beings as starting points, the workshop will invite participants to explore new and imagined worlds, voices and narratives through creative writing. Moving through the exhibition together, Carolyn will offer prompts and exercises inspired by the textures and atmospheres within the works.
The session is designed as an open and supportive space to experiment with writing, generate ideas and respond creatively to the exhibition – whether you write regularly or are simply curious to try.
What to expect: Carolyn will begin with a brief introduction to the exhibition and discuss ways of using Anderson Borba’s works as as a portal and guide from which to write. Participants will then spend time in the exhibition with a series of guided prompts before coming together to write, share work and reflect on the experience of writing in response to art.
Booking required, tickets available on a sliding scale: £8 | £6 | £3
Who is it for? Suitable for all abilities. No previous experience of creative writing is required.
What to bring: All materials will be provided.
Refreshments: There will be a short break in the session, and refreshments will be provided. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when booking.
Access
If you have any access requirements or questions, please contact Emma at emma@campleline.org.uk or 01848 331 000
Reaching us
CAMPLE LINE, Cample, near Thornhill, DG3 5HD
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Any questions?
Email us: info@campleline.org.uk
Call us: 01848 331 000
About Carolyn Hashimoto
Carolyn Hashimoto has worn many hats. After living and working as an ESL teacher in Japan for 20 years she returned to her home in Dumfries and Galloway where she worked as a tour guide, waitress and a local newspaper reporter before studying for a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. During her time as a student she founded Skirting Around – a journal that explores the politics and social and cultural issues that surround women’s clothing.
Carolyn is the author of two collections of poetry The Chips are Down Here in Lockdown (OrangeApple Press, 2021) and COW (Osmosis Press, 2022) and her work has appeared Gutter, 3:AM Magazine, From Glasgow to Saturn, Tentacular and perverse. In 2022 she was one of six emerging writers selected to work on the Dumfries public art project The High Street Multiverse with The Stove.
