Creative poetry writing workshop led by Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé, inspired by the Perth Museum exhibition 'Lessons of the Hour'.
Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé are leading a creative poetry workshop at Perth Museum on Saturday 27 February, from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. It's a morning session built around the museum's exhibition Lessons of the Hour, which looks at the life and work of the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the wider history of the transatlantic slave trade, and the links both have to Perthshire. The workshop takes those themes and turns them into something you actually do: the two of them will guide you through a series of writing exercises drawn from the objects, themes and descriptions in the exhibition, so you'll be working with the material on display rather than just looking at it.
There's a fair bit of weight behind the two leading the session. Dr Tawona Sitholé is a poet, playwright, storyteller and musician, and is currently artist-in-residence and lecturer with the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow. Professor Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts, is Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow, and chairs the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy. Between them, they bring a lot of experience in how language and art can be used to engage with these kinds of histories.
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If you've already seen Lessons of the Hour, this is a way to spend a few hours working with it; if you haven't, it's a good excuse to get into the exhibition and see it for yourself. The workshop runs from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm at Perth Museum, St John's Place, PH1 5SZ, and tickets are £15.
