Join us for a 90-minute workshop exploring the art of poetry, visual collage and personal expression.
We’ll start with a "burning haibun" exercise - crafting a prose piece, then distilling it into a haiku through a process of elimination.
Next, participants will create visual collages inspired by their poems, using magazines, paper, and other materials.
This workshop encourages letting go of ego, embracing brevity, and expressing poetry through visual art.
All materials provided! But feel free to bring your own magazines, photos/images, stickers, markers etc. to incorporate into your collage.
No previous experience required.
This workshop is presented in partnership with The Squamish Public Library.
Drea Moothu is an artist, host, educator, spokenword poet and community organizer living on Turtle Island. Drea’s work has been featured in Pique Magazine, The Lupine Review, Squamish Zine Fest and Seattle Erotic Art Festival. She has performed across Canada at The Brackendale Gallery, Tricksters Hideout, ARTSPEAK Gallery, Vancouver Pride, Buddies and Bad Times Theater, Maury Young Arts Centre and more. Most of her time is dedicated to her true passion - Soul House, a community organization that cultivates diverse art culture in the Sea-To-Sky Corridor. You can find her running multiple events locally such as her longest running show Poet Next Door, your local spoken word cafe and Queergasm.
Drea believes that storytelling is a vehicle to transform reality into what we dream it to be.