This workshop will introduce you to field journaling as a technique to experience and learn about the local environment and how to translate that into attendance to and care for place. Field journalling is an excellent tool to enrich your writing practice, and a powerful art technique on its own. We’ll use pen and ink, watercolour, and writing exercises to attend to the local landscape. Bring supplies (a waterproof drawing pen, good sketching or water colour paper, paints) if you have them; if you don’t, some will be available to borrow. For all levels, especially those who don’t think they’re visual artists!

Maleea Acker holds a PhD in Geography, an MA in Literature, and aBFA and MFA in Writing. She has been a funded arts fellow in Canada, the USA, Latin America and Europe. Maleea serves on the editorial board of the Malahat Review (non-fiction) and as a Director for Suddenly Dance Victoria. She has taught English and Creative Writing at Camosun College. She currently lectures at the University of Victoria and serves as faculty at Thompson Rivers University. She lives in the unceded territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples.

Registration Fee: $50.00 + GST
To confirm your registration please send $52.50 as an e-transfer to mcloughlingardens16@gmail.com. Or you may send a cheque to McLoughlin Gardens, PO Box 1223, Comox, BC V9M 3W7