RESCUE! Eco-poetry at the RNLI, Newhaven

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Free to BN9 residents but all tickets must be booked! 

 Join the composite eco-poet kin’d & kin’d upstairs at the beautiful RNLI building for a poetry workshop and performance on Sunday afternoon, 4th September. kin’d & kin’ddefine eco-poetry as a poetry that aspires to be conscious of what we are doing when we describe, record, interact with or take from what we call nature. It is a poetry that recognises the natural world as source, not resource.

 All are welcome to the workshop (3.00 – 5.00pm), which will include reading, writing and conversation about local and global issues, and will be followed by an hour (5.30-6.30pm) of poetry readings by local eco-poets

Come to the workshop only, or the performance only, or preferably both!

 Fee: workshop £5/£10; free for residents of BN9.  Performance: free.

To book your place or ask for more information contact

 enquiries@kaysyrad.co.uk

Since 2018, kin’d & kin’d (Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler) have led a series of eco-poetry workshops at ONCA Gallery in Brighton ,at the re-wilded estate, Knepp Wildland, the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, the environmental art gallery, Groundwork, in Norfolk, and their 6-week course this summer took place at Paradise Park. 

Part of the Newhaven Festival