Sustaining the Planet – Original Creative Workshop

Sustaining the Planet – Original Creative Workshop

Steve Walter, a local writer and poet, is running an environmental workshop as part of the

Tunbridge Wells Friends of the Earth Arts Exhibition. It will be a workshop with a difference;

seeing the environment through the two lenses of creativity and mental health. This is an

extension of a series which has been running at Sankey’s.

While the theme of the exhibition is ‘Waste’ this workshop will invite you to consider any

aspect of the environment and respond in the written or spoken word.

As well as addressing fundamental environmental issues, the workshop will engage your

innate creativity. There will be led exercises and an opportunity for you experiment, to

forage and gather natural elements and incorporate them into your writing.

The workshop will provide an encouraging and safe environment and you will have the

opportunity to write as much or as little as you want, from poetry as brief as a 17 syllable

haiku to prose the length of a short story – you may finish a piece(s), or just find some good

ideas for writing up later.

You are Invited to share your work but not obliged to do so. This is not preachy

environmental content, but involves sensitivity and a mindful approach.

All you need to bring is a pen and paper.

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Attendees will be contacted with more information before the event. The cost of the workshop covers hire of the space and facilities required. This workshop is suitable for adults of all abilities.

This workshop runs alongside the art exhibition 'Waste', organised by Tunbridge Wells Friends of the Earth. For more information on this please see: https://www.trinitytheatre.net/events/friends-of-the-earth-waste/

We are also hosting other workshops, see our eventbrite for more information on these.

About the workshop leader

I’m combining my concern for the planet, with creativity to offer an opportunity for people to reflect on their relationship with Earth.

I’ve performed at the Edinburgh and Brighton fringe festivals, and run many seminars,

workshops and conferences. In these workshops I blend environmental issues with a creative response, and mental health awareness (having lived experience of bipolar).

My background is both within the public sector, and in business, in policy, enforcement and

global environmental management.

How would you summarise our relationship with nature?

Nature is life. We can’t live without the natural world. Naturally, we respond to all that is

living around us. We are as much a part of nature as nature is a part of us.

We are all interconnected; what we choose to do affects the web, nature’s web, ecology –

the interconnectedness of all life. For example, what we buy and the choices we make can

have global implications for people and the planet.

If you would like to know more, either email me directly, hello@makingconnectionsmatter.com or submit an enquiry form via www.makingconnectionsmatter.com or call 01892 357026.