by Liz Ramsay | Jul 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Feeling the Word workshop was such fun, I clean forgot that I was meant to be blogging about it. Whoops! As promised in the flyer, choreographer and performance writer Dr Alys Longley invited us to think of our bodies as writing tools. Writing familiar names in...
by Liz Ramsay | Jul 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
For five days in early June, Bianca Rocca (Fine Arts Honours student) and Toyah Webb (English Honours student) offered an opportunity to explore this question experientially by participating in an open and collaborative google doc. Their project, working title, was...
by Sophie van Waardenberg | Jul 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
A workshop at Gus Fisher Gallery with Linda Tyler and Jess Douglas For someone who has never written about art outside the world of ancient Roman statues, to be asked to sit and write about an abstract painting at a relatively early hour in a late-semester week is to...
by Liz Ramsay | May 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
How might we navigate, be affected by, and transform our immersive world of signs? How do we construe and read literary and non-literary texts for different purposes? These questions lie at the heart of the paper ‘‘Modern Writing and Critical Thinking’, written and...
by Evija Trofimova | May 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
SEED Fund / “Creative/Critical/Collaborative” writing retreat Aio Wira Retreat Centre, Waitakere, New Zealand 13-16 December 2016 CLeaR’s year of “Writing, writing everywhere” started last December with some early-summer sowing of creative impetus. Our first...