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✏️ Connecting via Post:A Letter Writing Workshop
This event happened on Tue, Nov 21, 2023
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Overview
227 Lovely Attendees
227 Lovely Attendees
Your Host
Lizzie Maguire
Dublin, Ireland
About this FieldTrip
💌 In this workshop individuals will be encouraged to write a letter!
🧠We’ll cover the reasons why letter writing is great for not just your mental health but the mental and emotional health of letter recipients as well.
✍️We’ll look at ways to break the ice and ‘just get writing’ with prompts to inspire us.
🎨We’ll open ourselves to creativity with markers and stickers and whatever you fancy to decorate our letters and share a bit of our personality via snail mail!
📭 Participants are encouraged to come to the workshop with an open mind and a curiosity for letter writing. There will be recommendations for ways to engage with letter writing and pen paling further during the talk.
✨WHAT TO EXPECT
🟡Participants should expect to leave the workshop with a better sense of how letters have worked to connect humanity for thousands of years.💌 Participants will have dedicated time to write letter(s) and decorate the papers/envelopes to express themselves. Letters aren’t necessarily ‘handwritten’ and digital forms of letter expression are encouraged and invited!
✍️ Participants will be encouraged to complete the workshop with a letter ready to be posted and shared online with as part of the community hashtag: ‘Write More Letters’.
🎒WHAT TO KNOW OR BRING
🎨Participants are invited to bring along paper, pens, envelopes, and any crafting accessories they like (including stickers, washi tape, paint, etc.)💻Participants who would prefer to create digitally are invited to bring any tech or devices to accommodate this desire.
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Hi! My name is Liz. I am the creator and curator behind the digital archive of vintage love letters, Flea Market Love Letters. I believe that together we can challenge the idea that the ‘handwritten letter is dying’. Letter writing can be a fun and a great creative outlet!
EVENT TYPE
✏️ Creative Writing
RECORDING STATUS
🎥 ✅ This FieldTrip Will Be Recorded and Shared in the 24-hour Follow Up Email for a 3-day window. Make Sure to Register for Access!
What to expect
Lecture format!
This is a more traditional format where participants absorb information through presentations and talks.
Real-time only!
This FieldTrip will not be recorded.
Your Host
Lizzie Maguire
Dublin, Ireland
About Lizzie Maguire
Attendees
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Sarah Wengert
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