Ink-led storytelling: splash ink, read the shapes, write fast from what emerges. Let the mess guide the poem or story.

Ink Storytime & Poetry

Come and find out more about UpFront Survivors Gloucester and take part in making stories and poetry from inky mess, led by Danielle.

We'll use:

Ink

Watercolours

Or just a pen and water

All materials provided

How?

Splash, smear, or drip ink onto the page.

Let it dry — or don’t.

Sit with the shapes. What’s looking back at you? A flock of birds? A busy city? Trees moving in the wind?

Write fast. Write instinctively. Let the story come only from what the ink blot reveals.

Don’t edit. Don’t explain. Follow the image.

Bonus

Write while the ink is still moving.

Let it bleed through your words.

Let the mess interrupt the sentence.

Let the page decide the ending.

All of our workshops are open to CSA survivors, friends and allies, aged 18+

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Venue: Gas Project [art room], top floor of East gate Shopping Centre, 22 Eastgate St, Gloucester GL1 1PA

Click here for our venue info and access guide.

If you have any questions, please email hello@vivgordon.com

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Part of 'UpFront Survivors Gloucester', a free Creative Workshop & Events Programme for Adult Survivors Of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), Friends & Allies across Gloucester by Viv Gordon Company, funded by Barnwood.

More project information via: https://vivgordoncompany.co.uk/

About Danielle

Danielle uses poetry to make dark things beautiful. She describes her style as classic tragedy. She wants to create work that is beautiful and disturbing at the same time so that the audience can feel connection to the beautiful side and compassion for the disturbing.

Description supplied by the event organiser.