28th October 2024, 7pm-9pm GMT. Online via Zoom: Welcome and orientation - discussion and exercises to introduce the project and get the ball rolling

4th, 11th and 18th November 2024: self-led exercises and resources will be emailed out for you to engage with at your own time in your own way.

25th November 2024, 7pm-9pm GMT. Online via Zoom: We'll gather for a final meeting to discuss our experiences, share what we learned, offer our thoughts on where we might go next on our journeys of rest and restoration.

The Mourning Pages is a new kind of creative programme, designed to help you recover and rejuvenate after completing a big creative project, or when you feel creatively ‘spent’ and 'burned-out'.

Many creative writing workshops and programmes focus on getting started or keeping up momentum, but few workshops look at what can help you transition from the end of one big project to the beginning of another one, or if you're feeling stuck and 'in-between'.

This liminal space can often be uncomfortable, besieged by the feeling of emptiness, ‘spentness’, fatigue and a fear that you will never produce creatively again. Tina Sederholm and Ciarán Hodgers have both experienced this “creative-grief” after publishing poetry collections and touring shows. Through a shared experience and heartfelt conversation, they came to understand that if they traversed this period thoughtfully and restfully, it could in fact become a time of nourishment, inspiration and grounding.

Modern society today holds productivity on a pedestal to such an extreme extent that oftentimes the idea of rest or restoration feels unproductive, and through the messaging we are bombarded with constantly, invaluable; unworthy, unwanted and perhaps even a moral failing on our part. While productivity and discipline are important creative tools, we want to explore the ideas of rest as productive, of creative-grief as nourishment, of the inspiring quiet as a powerful antidote to the production line, burn-out, too-many-spinning-plates, frazzled minds we have begun too accustomed to.

Taking place from late October to late November, we will be aligning ourselves with the seasonality of the world around us during the time of Samhain and Hallowe’en in preparation for the deep rest that we may wish to take over the Winter Solstice / Holiday season.

So if you’ve just finished a creative project and want to embrace more fully this part of the creative cycle, join us for an interactive and participant-led approach in this exciting pilot project from two award-winning writers.

18+

Dates: 28th October - 25th November 2024
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: £35 (not including Eventbrite admin fee)

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