Mycoverse: RETURN ADDRESS - Connecting to the Natural World

Organized and hosted by Aaron Tupac Sponsored by Arlington Garden

Join us as we explore a contemplative writing exercise developed by the poet Erin Robinsong to connect with the natural world around us. We will wander around the garden to practice noticing and responding to the beings we encounter in the garden.

This workshop builds on our work thinking about how we can get involved and promote the . We've learned that it will take all disciplines, including the creativity of the arts and writers.

Aaron learned this exercise from a workshop they attended two years ago on Cortes Island and has been waiting for the perfect time to share this exercise!!

👋 📝 For this workshop, please bring your own notebook and something to write with (pen or pencil). ✏️📕

📝 About the creator:

is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. She is the author of Rag Cosmology (Book*hug, 2017) and Wet Dream (Brick Books, 2022), both winners of the AM Klein Prize for Poetry.Her readings and performances have been presented by the More Than Human Life (MOTH) Festival, The Architectural Association School of Architecture, Toronto International Festival of Authors, OFFTA Live Art Festival, Fierce Festival, Blackwood Gallery, and more. Collaborative dance works with Andréa de Keijzer and Hanna Sybille Müller include This ritual is not an accident; Facing away from that which is coming; and Polymorphic Microbe Bodies.A PhD candidate at Concordia University (Montreal), Erin’s research-creation work focuses on regenerative, relational and embodied poetics.Erin grew up in Coast Salish Territory, on Cortes Island.

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📣 NOTE: We will be back at Arlington this month after their shed burned down containing our tables and chairs. We will be walking around the garden.

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