Care Tag Poetry Workshop
February 10, 2024
1:00 - 2:30 pm
5th floor, The University of Winnipeg Library
NOTE: The workshop is now full.
Gallery 1C03, in partnership with the University of Winnipeg Students' Association and the University of Winnipeg Library, are pleased to present this hands-on, crafty poetry workshop. Multi-disciplinary artists Christine Fellows, Chantel Mierau and Jennifer Still will lead participants through tactile, rhythmic, physical composition techniques such as handwriting, typewriting, stitching, and collaging. Together we will write (and sew) our own care tag poem. A poem to be worn and carried.
Bring your own garment or tote-bag to sew your poem into!
The workshop is free but you must register to attend at the link above.
The Care Tag Poetry Workshop is organized in conjunction with the Gallery 1C03 exhibition legs featuring a collaborative short film and sculptural installation by Fellows, Mierau and Still.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Christine Fellows finds music in sounds we tend to take for granted: the voices of the people we love, the sounds of the spaces we move through as part of our daily lives. Although she identifies primarily as a songwriter and performer, her practice includes poetry, spoken word, paper collage, stop motion video, sound design, and composition. Over two decades, she has released 8 solo albums, and toured internationally both as a solo artist and as a collaborator, from the Canadian Arctic to Southern Australia. For her latest solo album Stuff We All
Get (2022) she created 13 songs alongside 13 stop-motion videos.
Chantel Mierau is a visual artist working in video and performance. Her work examines the everyday, and a frequent focal point in her work is the body and clothing. By strategically using repetition to either lull and comfort, or to build tension and suspense, Mierau reckons with the comfort and discomfort of living in a body. Since graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, she has exhibited locally and nationally. Her recent work "3 Chores" was exhibited in Winnipeg at Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Art in 2019 and was subsequently featured in BlackFlash Magazine in 2020.
Jennifer Still composes poems with physicality. She is the author of several handmade chapbooks and three poetry books, Comma (Book*hug), Girlwood (Brick Books) and Saltations (Thistledown). legs is a limited-edition chapbook with Baseline Press (2022) and winner of the 2021 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. In 2020 she collaborated with Christine Fellows on "I Write with Fossils", a video-poem exploration, and the live-action sewing video "Close Call" with Chantel Mierau. She was the 2015 Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence at the University of Winnipeg where her first line of legs remains looped through a ceiling tile.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Gallery 1C03 is on Treaty 1 Territory, the homeland of the Red River Métis and the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Ininew, Anishininew, Dakota and Dene peoples. Our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.
Gallery 1C03 is grateful to for the support of the University of Winnipeg Students' Association in co-presenting this event and to the University of Winnipeg Library for hosting the workshop in their space.