Workshops in creative writing for women

Inizjamed, in collaboration with the British Council, will be holding a series of four workshops in creative writing for women at St James Cavalier.

The workshops will be held between 6.30 and 8.00 p.m. on consecutive Mondays from next Monday.

The last session is on June 17.

Inizjamed said these workshops would seek to unite the different mediums of poetry and photography into one activity that drew on both.

The photographs that would provide the "inspirational springboard" for these writing sessions were self-portraits by the controversial British photographer, Sarah Lucas.

Some workshops would focus more on the art and technique of photography whereas others would focus more on writing itself. Women attending the workshops would be encouraged to discuss the portraits exhibited, to write down their reactions and eventually to process their writing within the group.

On June 29, the British Council will launch an exhibition of these provocative self-portraits by Sarah Lucas at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta.

Apart from these workshops, Inizjamed has also announced a number of activities.

On June 7, Belgian environmental activist Eric Van Monckhoven will be the main speaker in a public forum at Bay Street on reusing discarded materials and links between environmentalism and cultural initiatives.

Between July 15 and 21, leading Welsh female writer Menna Elfyn will be in Malta to give writing workshops and performances and to take part in a public forum with local NGOs.

In the last week of August, writer Miro Villar and critic Rosa Salgueiro from Galicia in Spain will be in Malta to give workshops and take part in artistic events at Bay Street and in Vittoriosa with local writers and artists.

For more information about the writing workshops for women phone 21388995 or 21376941.

inizjamed@maltaforum.org