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Workshop: Ecopoetry with Charlotte Baldwin at The Lab at Oaklands Rise
Sunday 23rd July 2023 , 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Switch up your tactics for talking about the climate crises in this exploratory poetry workshop open to all. Explore the rest of the Second Nature programme here.
Following the successful launch of ‘With My Lips Pressed to the Ear of the Earth’, join poet and author Charlotte Baldwin for a fresh and exciting ecopoetry workshop at The Lab at Oaklands Rise.
In our everyday lives, what could it mean to stay with the urgency of the climate crises? And how might it look to reject becoming desensitized to ongoing environmental catastrophe?
“With My Lips Pressed to the Ear of the Earth is a pamphlet full of secrets, whispered stories and confessions. Things that are buried deep frequently bubble up to the surface. As the title suggests this is a pamphlet with a strong eco-theme and the poems tackle serious issues, but never in a solemn way. These are inviting poems that delight in the strange and the surreal. The off-kilter approach can catch us off-guard at times, making us think in new ways about nature and our own relationship to it.”
Emma Simon, Poet
Join Charlotte to search for fresh angles to understand the climate crises through poetry. This workshop is open to everyone – no poetry writing experience required.
Second Nature: imagining climate future is a focused week of events on sustainable practices, reparative habits, and imagining climate futures.
Concessions rate applies to Bow Arts artists, students, over 65s, under 18s, National Art Pass members, and key workers.
More about Charlotte Baldwin
Access information
The Bow Arts Trust courtyard room has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Friday, 9am to 5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
