A Love Club Love Affair: Writing the Underworld. A creative writing session drawing upon myth, folklore and the shadows.
Step into the depths of Love Affair Basement this autumn into a candlelit underworld of myth, folklore and poetry. Together we will explore stories and myths related to the dark, the deep, the sensual, and explore different writing prompts inspired by the stories. At the end there will be an optional open mic moment, where you can share words, poems, stories, songs, anything that compels you- something written in the session or outside of it. The night will take the shape of:
The Descent: Arrival grounding and initial prompts to explore the mythological concept of the underworld (think Hades and Persephone).
The Depths: We’re in the soil and the dirt, we’re meeting mythical spirits who linger in the dark, and writing about them.
The Emergence: We are beginning to see the light, we crawl up out of the underworld and meet a lighter story and writing prompt for a soft landing. This part of the night will also lead into the optional sharing/open mic.
This poetry workshop and open mic will be facilitated by Polly, the founder of Love Club- a trauma-informed wellbeing facilitator, who believes that we are inherently creative beings, but don't often given our adult selves the opportunity to explore this.
Everyone welcome! Whether you’ve only heard of Hercules from the disney movie, everyone is welcome here, and there is no requirement to have written before! It’s an exploration of myth and stories, and how we can use them to inspire our own writing, or indeed explore our own minds to draw the juice, if you want to go there! The stories are just an entryway, and will only take a short time as we open each prompt, most of the time will be available for you to write.
Any more information feel free to email polly@love-club.org, and if you need any financial assistance please get in touch, no one turned away due to lack of funds if we can xx