In this online workshop, found-object poet and artist Prema Arasu will guide you through the process of finding your own voice through destruction, experimentation, and re-creation.
We will combine several 'found object' artforms including blackout poetry, and collage, and shared online platforms to remake pre-existing textual and visual material into new pieces. You may choose to work digitally, on paper, or both.
If working on paper, please come prepared with the necessary craft items, including scissors, glue, a black marker for blackout poetry, and paper items that are no longer required for their original purpose. This may include old magazines, rejection letters, love letters, books you don’t like, blood test results, and grocery receipts.
Details
When: Tuesday 26 May, 2 - 4pm
Platform: Zoom (link will be emailed to you the day before the event)
About Prema Arasu
Prema Arasu is an Own Voices writer/artist and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Western Australia. They co-ordinate the SFF Collective at the Centre For Stories and run other community arts events aimed at empowering people from CaLD backgrounds. Prema has both academic and creative publications in the areas of fantasy literature and speculative fiction, queer and feminist postmodernism, the body, performance art, and diaspora studies.
About KickstART Virtual
22 - 29 May 2020
For 10 years KickstART has been the flagship event for Youth Week WA, however things are a little different in 2020.
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent live event cancellations, Propel Youth Arts WA is presenting KickstART Virtual: a week-long online festival of free workshops, talks, and hangouts, specifically tailored to young creative people in WA, and developed by Creative Coordinator Kobi Arthur Morrison with the Youth Week WA Planning Committee.
KickstART takes place on Noongar Boodjar. We acknowledge the ownership and are grateful for the custodianship of the people who originate from the Whadjuk nation. We acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia. We pay our respect to Elders past and present. We are committed to reconciliation and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people.
KickstART Virtual is presented by Propel Youth Arts WA and is funded by the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Communities and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. KickstART is also sponsored by Lotterywest and the City of Perth.