Finding Stories: Collaging with Found Poetry

This workshop is about the creative play of words and pictures - combining found poetry with collage. All welcome! Found poetry is a beginner friendly, accessible way to curate and write poetry with existing words from magazines, old books and other sources of media, sometimes used as a way to combat writer’s block. The session will provide some guidance on how to experiment with word selection from existing sources, to make poems. We will then use our poems and words to inform joyful and beautiful visual collages based on the selected words and poems. This will be an opportunity for participants to explore how words and pictures tell stories. All equipment will be provided, but to make the experience more personal, you are welcome to bring your own personalised analogue ‘junk’ such as bus/train tickets, receipts, stubs, documents, photos, film, postcards, old notes, letters, food wrappers - anything from your daily life. ABOUT HAJRA: Hajra Mubashar is a multidisciplinary educator and creative working across design, education, art and poetry. She currently practises as a science teacher, with a background in graphic design spanning advertising, social media, marketing and branding. Collage became both an obsession and a source of joy during her transition into teaching, developing into an important part of her creative practice. Since then, she has shared that enthusiasm with others by running a thriving collage club for young people, facilitating collage workshops for adults, and exhibiting her own work in multiple exhibitions. ABOUT FUSE: Fuse is a Manchester-based collective uplifting underrepresented (ethnic minority) creatives. We run events, share opportunities through our newsletter, and actively showcase creatives across our socials. If you want to know more about Fuse, find us at fusemcr.com or @fusemanchester! ABOUT SAAN1: Saan1 is an art space in the Northern Quarter, Manchester. See what they're up to at @saan1mcr.