Poetry Workshop - Orbits

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Join local writer and poet, Catherine Collin, as she leads a poetry workshop to explore our relationship to movement, visual and audio description, based on and in response to the film, Orbits. All abilities welcome. About Orbits Orbits (2023) is a forty-minute film created by Scotland’s leading disabled theatre company Birds of Paradise that features the astonishing Portuguese disabled dancer Diana Niepce. The film embodies the company’s vision where disabled artists are recognised for the excellence of their work and celebrated for the stories they bring to the stage. Orbits is a film about how we feel and what we experience when we lose something that we have been in a relationship with, that orbits us. It considers how this can affect our experience of ourselves. When we lose someone, how far will we go to feel ‘in their orbit’ again and what fragmentation occurs in this out-of-relation place – is it just loneliness, this dislocation from the other, or an awakening to life? Orbits does not have any spoken dialogue and has been produced to play on a loop across gallery opening hours. It is accompanied by an audio description version for blind or visually impaired viewers. Created with choreographer Rachel Drazek, Orbits was filmed by Hugo Glendinning and features an evocative soundtrack by Scottis composer Scott Twynholm. About Catherine Collin "Having grown up involved in the arts, poetry was a stepping stone in my creative journey, and only became a very significant part of my life just a few years ago. And since then I’ve worked with the Jersey Festival of Words (2024), holding a workshop for Hautlieu students with the aim to jolt their interest in unseen poetry, and to make it fun; and I was published in a Jersey collective anthology (2022), entitled Small Island, Big Dreams, with my local poetry group, La Poèt’tie. Since I began writing for myself during Covid, I found it has been a great outlet. Its storytelling aspects and connection to shared human experiences makes it such an accessible art. I draw inspiration from people and nature, which to me are the most interesting and varied subjects for writing." Accessibility You won't need to have seen the film 'Orbits' already as viewing will form part of the workshop. However, it will be showing at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House from Thursday 3 April to Sunday 13 April 2025, 12pm-6pm (closed Mondays) if you want to visit beforehand. Please see the ArtHouse Jersey website for accessibility information for Capital House. If you have any specific access questions or requirements, please contact Gallery & Events Manager, Katherine Wood - [email protected] or 01534 851442 (weekdays).

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