JKD and MN reflected over "old" Barcelona model at the Maritime Museum |
Michelle Noteboom and I are in Barcelona, Spain this week on a sort of nostalgia return trip here after our last Oct visit in 2013 when we were also joined by Bonny Finberg. We find the city fabulously warm and welcoming and of course the sun lingering into the fall with its welcome warmth is not to be missed. But we are also honored to be reading here again, and I am also doing a writing workshop: see here is some key info for those events should you be here and want to join, and a few pictures for those who just want to bask in the beautiful Barcelona air vicariously!
LECTURE / READING:
Michelle Noteboom and Jennifer K Dick
+ open readings for interested authors who want to share work!
9pm Oct 30th at Collage, 96 Sant Salvador, Barcelona
Two American poets, Jennifer K Dick and Michelle
Noteboom, will read their poems on Friday, October 30, at Collage. All
Collage events are must-see, but Jen and Michelle aren’t in Barcelona
nearly often enough, and you don’t want to miss this opportunity to hear
them. Please bring work to read in the open reading. For more information or to RSVP: see the Facebook event invitation: https://www.facebook.com/events/999618416776113/
WRITING WORKSHOP: GENERATIVE WRITING
with JENNIFER K DICK:
5-7pm Oct 31st at Collage, 96 Sant Salvador, Barcelona
DESCRIPTION: Open to authors of prose, poetry or mixed genre works,
this Saturday afternoon workshop is about starting, and starting again,
providing tips, techniques and some triggering exercises to get ink
onto and into the white page. For authors, each day, each page brings us
a sense of accomplishment and the excitement of getting somewhere even
when we battle to find a single line that works for us. So, to generate
and work at attaining some tips that can be used to generate new
writing, we will try our hand at a variety of exercises and techniques
to warm up, redirection, and get going writing prose, poetry or prose
poems/flash fiction. We will also read some short texts by other authors
as part of some of the writing exercises we will try our hand at this
afternoon. At the end of the workshop, you will leave with a few
beginnings, and perhaps also a finished draft or two. A course for
writers at all levels.
LOGISTICS/FEE: To sign up, contact "Emilie" via her email at:
collagebarcelona [at] gmail [dot] com / or call 93.284.6520. 20€ fee
covers photocopies, space and the course.
ADDRESS: Barcelona, Spain at Collage
(Sant Salvador 96, metro: Lesseps).
RSVP on the Facebook event page, too, at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1693181307583637/
Valerie Coulton and Ed Smallfield--poets residing in Barcelona--with Jennifer K Dick and Michelle Noteboom at Palmera Restaurant |
Me (Jennifer K Dick) in front of an old map at the Barcelona Maritime Museum |
Michelle Noteboom at work writing in our Barcelona flat |
Michelle Noteboom and Jennifer K Dick playing "divers of yore" outside the Barcelona Maritime Museum |
In the Parc Juan Miro which we discovered is not near the fondacio |
The Amazing fountains descending in front of the Museo of Catalan Art |