ExpiredWalking Backwards Into The Future

In te ao Māori, we say that we walk backwards into the future. We look forward into the past as the promises of the future blossom behind our backs, their petals blowing past us on the winds of time. 

Time is often thought of as one of the main elements of story. But what happens when we remove it? What happens when we look at time in writing outside of the Western scope? What happens when we show the movement of time through more than aging and decay? 

Through this workshop we will be looking at different time scales across works of writing, different tohu or signs of time periods or time passing, and challenging each other to remove or recenter time within our writing. Breaking down the walls between different time periods to create a more open plan way of writing and reading where the past, present and future can sit alongside each other, informing our words and our understanding of them.

We will be reading from authors in a wide variety including Patricia Grace, Joy Harjo, and Reinhard Brautigan to look at different presentations, scopes, and removals of time within writing. Over the two days, we will also be generating new writing using prompts and exercises that will become kākano, or seeds, for you to work with in future. 

Limit of 12 participants.