The Pleasure of Resistance
Resisting injustices and pushing progress can be exhausting. How do we invite people towards change?
The Pleasure of Resistance is a free online workshop with award winning Bristol City poet Caleb Parkin exploring ways in which creative writing can be used to amplify messages.
In the workshop you will explore resources you need to 'resist', you’ll be invited to think about joyous, creative ‘marks of resistance’ in your day-to-day life, celebrating their details. Participants are encouraged to bring magazine articles or other forms of writing for inspiration.
This workshop is for writers at all stages, ages and abilities. If you would like to take part please sign up using the ticket link. A Zoom link will be supplied closer to the event. The workshop is free but spaces are limited.
About Caleb Parkin
The works of Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, have been published widely in journals. He has also won/been shortlisted in major writing competitions across the UK. Caleb tutors for Poetry Society, Poetry School and Cheltenham Festivals, and holds an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. His debut pamphlet, Wasted Rainbow was published with Tall Lighthouse in February 2021 and his debut collection, This Fruiting Body, with Nine Arches this October.
About Art of Resistance
Art of Resistance is a two year Heritage Lottery Funded Project exploring 100 years of social activism, protest and civil disobedience in Bristol and the art that underpinned each movement.
