ONLINE Writing the Summer Solstice
Saturday | June 17, 2023 | 10-12pm
Instructor: Jenna Butler
Update: This class is full. Email us to be added to the waitlist.
MEMBER PRICE: $45.00 (with member coupon AWCSM25)
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $60.00
The longest day of the year brings with it great expanses of light and warmth, as well as a powerful shift in the energy of the land. Instead of allowing this generative time of year to slip by unnoticed, as so often happens during busy June days, this workshop will ask you to attend carefully to the turn of the summer solstice in the land and in the rhythms of your own creative practice.
The workshop occurs a few days before the solstice to provide you with writing ideas to carry with you over the days that follow, building up to the solstice itself on June 21. We’ll do some season-specific goal-setting for our writing practice, observe the shifting energy in the land around us through simple writing exercises, and discuss ways in which we can become more attentive to seasonal change in our land-based work and our daily lives. This will be a wonderful workshop for writers wanting to explore place at turning points in the year that are particularly rich in diversity and life, and for anyone wanting to hold space for their creative practice at an energetically powerful time.
This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.
Dr. Jenna Butler is an award-winning poet, essayist, and editor. She is the author of three books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and the Arctic travelogue Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Her newest book, Revery: A Year of Bees, essays about beekeeping, climate grief, and trauma recovery, was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction and a longlisted title for CBC Canada Reads 2023. A BIPOC writer committed to diverse narratives of place, Butler is a retired professor of creative and environmental writing and farms off the grid in northern Treaty 6.