Join Us for an Ekphrastic Scavenger Hunt!

Join us for a unique creative experience!

The Ekphrastic Scavenger Hunt is an asynchronous event. You will work independently on your own schedule over the weekend, while connecting in a private Facebook group. 

Lorette will respond to three stories or poems inspired by the discoveries you make. 

There will be a wide assortment of open-ended clues that you can uncover. This will unleash a wealth of inspiration to last the whole year and grow your ekphrastic practice in unexpected directions.

There will be a wine and zoom celebration Sunday evening for writers to connect and share.

Start your year off with a maze of ekphrastic inspiration.

This is our first event of this kind and we are excited about a new creative experiment!

The price is $100 Canadian dollars, or approximately $72 USD.

An Ekphrastic Scavenger Hunt: an asynchronous art encounter and writing experience

CA$100.00

Start the new year off with an interesting immersion in art with this unique asynchronous workshop. Join us for this unique writing experience where you will follow clues and prompts provided by the The Ekphrastic Academy to discover a variety of intriguing paintings and other works of visual art. You will use books of art you have on hand, online research, or even a gallery or museum visit to search for works that could fulfill the clues given. These will be open ended and open to interpretation, with suggestions curated to inspire an entertaining and thought-provoking search experience with multiple possibilities. From your discoveries, you will choose the work that speaks to you and use a prompt provided or your imagination to write a story or poem inspired by that work.

You can use your scavenger hunt finds to create poetry, flash fiction, or CNF.

The workshop will take place asynchronously on your own schedule, while connecting with others to share your ideas and discoveries, and your drafts, in a private Facebook group.

There will be an optional afterparty on Sunday evening at 6 pm to 7 pm eastern time on zoom, where we will discuss our search, the artworks we discovered, and how our writing was inspired.

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