Multilingual Kinship with Nature
Wednesday November 5, 18:30-20:00
How do we cultivate kinship with the natural world and its more-than-human inhabitants through language? Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer's thinking on the grammar of animacyin Potawatomi and English, we will experiment with her recommendations to also include grammars of other languages brought to our conversation by those who will join us for the evening. We will read short excerpts from Kimmerer's The Democracy of Species, and try out various strategies in writing. Expect fun invitations to write mini-texts in order to help us reflect on Indigenous and our own ways of relating to nature.
Please bring something to write with and on. No knowledge of grammar required :) Texts only shared if you want to.
Hosted by Ela and Ruxy
preter/natural appetite for chalk (pamphlet launch reading and conversation)
Wednesday 19 November, 18:30-20:00
Join Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese (guest author and artist) and Ruxandra Chiujdea (host) for an informal conversation interwoven with readings from Elżbieta’s visual hybrid text, composed also as part of her creative ambassadorship for the Møn UNESCO Biosphere.
‘Chalk as compressed record-bearing strata: fossil texts of coccoliths’, glaciers’ and
cliffs’ movements, amended by flint, sea and storms. This work writes into our relationship with landscape. From private encounters to geological history, these site-specific “white paintings” choreograph our concern.’
Multilingual Kinship with Nature
Wednesday November 5, 18:30-20:00
How do we cultivate kinship with the natural world and its more-than-human inhabitants through language? Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer's thinking on the grammar of animacyin Potawatomi and English, we will experiment with her recommendations to also include grammars of other languages brought to our conversation by those who will join us for the evening. We will read short excerpts from Kimmerer's The Democracy of Species, and try out various strategies in writing. Expect fun invitations to write mini-texts in order to help us reflect on Indigenous and our own ways of relating to nature.
Please bring something to write with and on. No knowledge of grammar required :) Texts only shared if you want to.
Hosted by Ela and Ruxy
preter/natural appetite for chalk (pamphlet launch reading and conversation)
Wednesday 19 November, 18:30-20:00
Join Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese (guest author and artist) and Ruxandra Chiujdea (host) for an informal conversation interwoven with readings from Elżbieta’s visual hybrid text, composed also as part of her creative ambassadorship for the Møn UNESCO Biosphere.
‘Chalk as compressed record-bearing strata: fossil texts of coccoliths’, glaciers’ and
cliffs’ movements, amended by flint, sea and storms. This work writes into our relationship with landscape. From private encounters to geological history, these site-specific “white paintings” choreograph our concern.’
