Blindside x Emerging Writers Festival: Ekphrastic Writing Workshop
Autumn Royal
8–8 Aug 2024
Ekphrasis is the practice of emotionally or intellectually representing the aura of an artwork through words.
Blindside and the Emerging Writers Festival are coming together in 2024 to present the inaugural Ekphrastic Writing Program.
Naarm-based poet and critic, Dr. Autumn Royal will illuminate the relationship between the visual and written, steering you through the history and form of this literary device as a conduit for appreciating and understanding a marriage of art forms.
Coinciding with the celebration of Blindside’s 20th anniversary, this workshop reflects on the afterlife of ephemeral exhibitions. Writers will be invited to consider the ability for new textual responses to reactivate and revise the legacies of artworks in temporary contexts.
Join the cohort of Blindside & EWF’s Ekphrastic Writing Program at the FREE workshop, held on site at Blindside - Thursday 8 August, 6-8pm.
LIMITED CAPACITY, PLEASE BOOK VIA EVENTBRITE TO CONFIRM PLACE.
Blindside & EWF will host a Poetry Reading as part of the Ekphrastic Writing Program, held on site at Blindside - Saturday 7th September, 2-4pm.
Texting Images
Ekphrasis is the practice of rendering an artwork as text. As part of Blindside and the Emerging Writers Festival’s 2024 Ekphrastic Writing Program, Naarm-based poet and critic Dr Autumn Royal will reveal the history of ekphrasis to illuminate the relationship between literary and visual realms. Participants are invited to expand on this form by writing their own ekphrastic text in response to original artworks.
This workshop, coinciding with Blindside’s 20th anniversary celebration, reflects on how text can evoke an afterlife of ephemeral exhibitions. Writers will consider how new textual responses may expand, reactivate, and revise artworks in Blindside’s archive.
Join the cohort of Blindside & EWF’s Ekphrastic Writing Program at this FREE workshop, held on-site at Blindside on Thursday, 8 August, 6-8 pm.
Limited spots are available. Register now to avoid disappointment via the link in bio.
Autumn RoyalBorn 1987, Mildura/on the unceded lands of the Latji Latji and Nyeri Nyeri people
Lives and works Naarm/Melbourne
Autumn Royal creates drama, poetry, and criticism.