Friday 8 May
Creative writing workshop with Carolyn Hashimoto
11.30am-1.30pm
Booking required
Tickets on a sliding scale: £8 | £6 | £3
Anderson Borba, Cave Head, 2026 (detail), Wood, paper, stone, bronze, oil pastel, shoe polish, wood stain, lacquer, 20 x 160 x 19 cm. Courtesy of the artist and The approach, London. Photo: Mike Bolam
We look forward to welcoming Dumfries-based writer Carolyn Hashimoto back to Cample this May. Carolyn will lead a creative writing workshop at CAMPLE LINE that takes the artworks in our spring exhibition as its starting point.
Carolyn will guide participants through Anderson Borba’s totemic sculptures, inviting them to find new and imagined worlds and beings to write about.
With prompts and support from Carolyn, you’ll explore and enjoy some creative writing techniques in a highly accessible and thought-provoking workshop.
What to expect: Carolyn will begin the workshop with a brief introduction to the exhibition and discuss how we might use Anderson Borba’s works as a portal and guide from which to write. Carolyn will then lead the group through the exhibition, providing prompts to help inspire some creative written responses to some of the works. The group will then come together to write and share work and reflect on the experience of writing in this way.
Who is it for? The workshop will be 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 we will provide refreshments. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when you book.
Access
If you have any access requirements or questions, please be in touch with our colleague Emma: 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.
