Sheryda Warrener
Activating the Archive

Taking inspiration from the works in the exhibit They Lift the Sky, as well as the archival practices of poets Diana Khoi Nguyen and Silvina López Medin, participants will gather 2 -3 personal items of emotional significance (photographs, scrapbooks, journals, notebooks, physical artifacts, etc). in advance to respond to via a series of generative writing exercises. Drawing on these notes and observations, and imagining a future archive, participants will create one new visual-textual item to add to their collection.

Sheryda Warrener is a poet and teacher. Her most recent collection, Test Piece (Coach House Books, 2022), was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She is a lecturer in poetry in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. In her course Pure Seeing: Thinking & Writing Through Art, artists and writers explore how art and writing disciplines can influence each other to evolve new forms and modes of making. She is the creator of The Provocation Collection:theprovocationcollection.com, a series of material prompts for writers designed in collaboration with artists.

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