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Surrealism and Writing: the All Day Sesh!
Sat 23 Mar
|Finch's
A stimulating, fun-packed day of food, drink and writing. New friends, new exercises, new writing.
Time & Location
23 Mar 2019, 10:45 – 18:00
Finch's, 12a Finsbury Square, Moorgate, London EC2A 1AN, UK
About the Event
This is a special, SURREAL edition of the All Day Sesh!
Surrealism is the most dramatic and thrilling of the modernist cultural movements of the 20s and 30s. It is best known for its dream-like visual artworks, but it’s writings are also magnificent, marked by strange juxtapositions, tangential ramblings, partial or broken meanings and oblique allusions to political or emotional states.
To work in the surrealist mode is to dream big, to unearth the most exciting and hidden elements of the unconscious, to access hitherto latent parts of what feels like a foreign part of the psyché.
For this special edition of the All Day Sesh! will be looking at parts of the surrealist manifesto by Andre Breton, some poems by Paul Eluard, some surrealist prose fiction, and examples of surrealism in contemporary writing. You will also have the opportunity to try surrealist writing for yourself!
“Surrealism is destructive” said…
Tickets
FULL DAY TICKET
This ticket entitles you to a free breakfast, a 2 hour workshop on narrative perspective and tone, an afternoon of writing and socialising with your peers, and a free evening drink.
£30.00
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