Discover the "Cloak for Courage" with Fellows Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler. Join us for an inspiring talk and an engaging writing workshop to explore the RSA’s 2024 theme of courage. Feel free to join for just the talk, or both!
Talk: 1-2pm, The Steps, RSA House London:
A Cloak for Courage: eco-poet duo kin’d & kin’d (Kay Syrad & Clare Whistler) will give a talk about the conception and making of their Cloak for Courage, currently on display at RSA House. A Cloak for Courage in the Anthropocene was devised to coincide with the RSA’s theme of courage this year.
Writing Workshop: 2.30-4.30pm, Collaboration Room:
The talk is followed by a Writing Workshop in which we will explore some eco-poems and generate writing exercises that bring our attention to courage in relation to the many-more-than-human world.
All welcome: you don’t have to be a writer to join!
About the creators:
Kay Syrad FRSA has published two novels and three volumes of poetry; her fourth volume is due out next year. She is a former Poetry Editor of the longstanding poetry journal Envoi. She also writes about art, with three Thames & Hudson monographs, and has collaborated with artists and musicians, for example with composer and saxophonist Trevor Watts on a libretto for a choral work. Her art-text work, work of the lightship men: 1000 tasks, was purchased by the National Maritime Museum.
Clare Whistler FRSA is a collaborative artist who makes work in the landscape with poetry, performance, music and visual art. Current collaborative projects include kin’d & kin’d with poet Kay Syrad as a composite eco poet; Waterweek & Watercycle with visual artist Charlotte Still; Turner & Whistler with visual artist Nichola Turner; and Elephant Press for collaborative books with Raphael Whittle.
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