The fruits of the land are ripening...get rooted with the earth.
Puddle Poetry Project's major objective is an open forum for creating collaborative poetry that decolonizes and re-indigenizes us, seperately and collectively. Here, with Seed to Poem, community shares the creation process in the forms of developing stories and poems in supportive and appreciative settings about growth and change in plants, and the mataphors for human life. Meeting online, we will contemplate seed, then seedling, plant, flower and fruit, the harvest, and the return back to seed. We will explore what these seasons do to reflect our own rhythms and patterns and create verses to share our meditations on these thoughts as we gather together.
Seed to Poem— A forum to collectively create poetry for nature...
Next session
Thursday, December 12, 2024
cost to participants
$30 per session (or PWYC options)
Apply a discount of 30% with CODE: EARLY
Event
We gather together to consider what the seasons tell us about our connections to nature, by contemplating seeds, seedlings, mature plants and trees through poetry and our five senses plus any extras you happen to be blessed with!
What to expect
One 1.5 hour online group writing session (Zoom) offered every 3-4 months for 1 year-round seasonal cycle with writing prompts surrounding the seeds in the crown of your metaphorical connection to nature, the growth that signals change and shift of seasons, and the natural cycles of everything. We write to become more aware and active in our responsibility to give back to the Earth.
About your facilitator— Sonya Littlejohn
I hold an SFU Community Capacity Building Certificate and a BA from UBC. I have been in poetry and activism Masterclasses with Saul Williams, d’bi young, and recently presented my poetry in Lillian Allen’s OCAD classrooms for first and fourth year Creative Writing students. I’m an SFU Continuing Studies co-instructor for the Leadership Program, the Inclusion Coordinator and Event Manager for Vancouver Poetry House, a workshop facilitator in creative writing, arts and community building, an artist, a poet, a gardener, a home chef and a mother.
I collaborate with other poets, artists, arts organizers, arts organizations, and social service providers within and between the communities and families throughout and between the lands of the Secwepemculucw, Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Səl̓ilwətaɁɬ, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh nations to engage in relationship building, community connections and event planning catered to growth and finding balance with all our relations throughout the seasons. In collaborations, wherever we write together, we have a good time.
Eventbrite Registration for session 1
opens 12 NOON PST, Sept. 19
session dates
(Note: 6pm PST start times, except Dec. 12, 2024)
AUTUMN Thursday, October 10, 2024
WINTER Thursday, December 12, 2024 (on sale now)
SPRING Thursday, April 3, 2025
SUMMER Thursday, June 12, 2025
The ANNUAL Stage: Seeds to Poems*
Thursday, July 17, 2025 7pm *Tickets will be available for The Annual Stage on Eventbrite, Dec. 13th, 2024)
Book a one to one session with Sonya HERE. (15 minutes free consultation or 1 hour writing sessions available by request)
