Friday 9 October | 14:30 - 17:30

Writing as Truth as Desire

Writing lab by Birds Without Gender

! English spoken

! Entrance is free. Sign up required through the form on this website or for students through https://goodmoodbreda.nl/activiteitenoverzicht/.

Writing as Truth as Desire aims to explore and bring to light the diversity, the complexities and the incompleteness of truth, as a methodology for writing rooted in the recognition of this which is alive in the present moment, which becomes also a permission slip for the elusive desire and a remedy for healing from oppressive, absolute truths.

We invite writers, artists, and everyone else who wants to explore truth as desire (as a story, as trauma, as hope, as pleasure, as dream...) to participate in a three hour writing and reading experience.

14:00 - 14:30 walk-in

14:30 - 17:30 Writing Lab

17:30 closure

What to expect?

A short introduction to auto-fictional writing
Participate in conversations about how texts attempt to navigate the complex nature of truth (with samples of favourite texts shared and read by the participants and by Birds)
To participate in short writing sessions and share your writings with the group
To participate in short sensory exercises and write and share your experience
The texts created during the writing lab will be documented and published with permission of the author on the website of Clublokaal. Have a look at the documentation of last year's writing lab here.

Bring along:

your favourite writing materials (laptop and/or notebook, pen/pencil, etc.)
one favourite text

About Birds Without Gender

Birds Without Gender is a healer, writer, and performance artist based in Rotterdam.

Their work focuses on intimacy and the complexity of the human condition.

They write auto-fiction, poetry, and text for performance.