How to write a love poem, the *Lovers & Friends poetry workshop.
Pen a poem for a lover or friend & frame it as a gift of love.
Join us as we make poems for the people who love us & frame them for all to witness. Write a poem for your partner or come with your lover/friend & make a poem for each other this love season; a Valentine's special.
Birmingham Sat12th Feb 2022
17:30 - 19.00 @ Midlands Arts Centre Birmingham.
1 workshop of 3 for our Season of Love.
I Self-Love Poetry Session,
II Grief-IS-Love Poetry Session,
III Lovers & Friends Poetry Workshop.
Write a poem for your lover or friend <3 An alternative Valentine experience.
We have all wanted or imagined or contemplated - at some point - writing a love poem for someone we love during love season. It's with this energy I present a lovers&friends poetry workshop to help you pour your love for them into a work of art.
We'll begin the workshop with a heart-opening exercise and free-flow self-writing to set our intention to love, connect with our hearts, visualise our lover or friend, and invite the emotional and sensual energy of love to ignite our creativity.
We'll continue by responding to a series of writing prompts that give our connection and love a voice through metaphor and story. First, we'll explore the love we share, our fondest moments, our desire, dependency, and relational traits that attract us to each other to document our love.
We'll then go deeper into a more creative interpretation of our lover or friend through heartwarming and hilarious metaphor exercises guided by the poet and therapeutic practitioner Hayley Frances.
In the second part of the workshop, we'll edit our poems into works of art and mount them into frames as a gift to our lover or friend this love season.
The workshop includes feel good energy, guided meditations, free flow writing, intention setting, poetry prompts, biblio-poetry therapy, art supplies, frames, connection, refreshments & soundscapes inspired by the heart.
The Details
*There are no rules in this workshop. Though there are poetry forms, all poems are welcome here, whether limerick, mantras, lists, interpretations, sonnets, statements, lyrics or letters. *except I may ban red roses and blue violets.
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We'll provide all art supplies, a typewriter, a printer for those who would like to type and print their poems, and frames for the finished pieces. There will also be refreshments and a breakout room.
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Everyone of every ability is welcome, especially those who've never written a poem before and want to start or continue a self-love practice.
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For more information, please email poetry(@)hayleyfrances.com or contact us here.
£29
Full Price
Please allow others to take low-income places if you can afford the full price.
£19
Low Income
Bursary for low income use code ‘ILOVEME’.
LIMITED CAPACITY
‘I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”
— Pablo Neruda
Follow our journey.
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Self-Love Poem & Frame workshop.
Pour yourself into a poem and mount is as a work of art.
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Grief-IS-Love poem & frame workshop
Honour the love you hold in grief through the therapeutic power of poetry.
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Lovers & Friends poem & frame workshop
Pen a poem for a lover or friend & frame it as a gift of love.
