Gayle Letherby's Blog

 Creative Imaginings of Space and Place at Fish Factory Art Space, Penryn 

I've very much wanted to get involved in more local community arts events in or close to my home town of Falmouth and I'm very grateful to the Fish Factory Art Space, Penryn, Cornwall for helping me achieve this. On Sunday 27th October 2024 I facilitated a creative writing workshop focusing on Space and Place. Amongst other exercises we played about with free writing, responded to pictorial prompts, proverbs and song titles and spent some time imagining the connections and the differences between space(s) and place(s). As well as writing there was quite a lot of (focused) chatting and sharing and a bit of art work too. Some wonderful pieces were produced. 

Personally I enjoyed the afternoon enormously and I'm really looking forward to the next workshop I'm running on the 27th of November. This one is aimed specifically at academics and activists. You can sign up here if you're local to the area and interested (and be sure to check out all the other great events and exhibitions at the Fish Factory) https://www.fishfactoryarts.space/

One other lovely thing has been seeing posters advertising the workshops all through the town; in arts shops and bakeries, even on the counter of a cafe and pasty shop that I often pop into. .