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Patchwork Poetry

2025-08-13 18:00:00 2025-08-13 19:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Patchwork Poetry Join Squamish Arts Festival for a 90-minute workshop exploring the art of poetry, visual collage, and personal expression. Squamish Public Library - Community Meeting Room

Wednesday, August 13
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-08-13 18:00:00 2025-08-13 19:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Patchwork Poetry Join Squamish Arts Festival for a 90-minute workshop exploring the art of poetry, visual collage, and personal expression. Squamish Public Library - Community Meeting Room

Squamish Public Library

Community Meeting Room

Join Squamish Arts Festival for a 90-minute workshop exploring the art of poetry, visual collage, and personal expression.

Join us for a 90-minute workshop exploring the art of poetry, visual collage and personal expression. 

We’ll start with a "burning haibun" exercise - crafting a prose piece, then distilling it into a haiku through a process of elimination. 

Next, participants will create visual collages inspired by their poems, using magazines, paper, and other materials. 

This workshop encourages letting go of ego, embracing brevity, and expressing poetry through visual art. 

All materials provided! But feel free to bring your own magazines, photos/images, stickers, markers etc. to incorporate into your collage. 

No previous experience required. 


About the facilitator:

Drea Moothu is an artist, host, educator, spokenword poet and community organizer living on Turtle Island. Drea’s work has been featured in Pique Magazine, The Lupine Review, Squamish Zine Fest and Seattle Erotic Art Festival. She has performed across Canada at The Brackendale Gallery, Tricksters Hideout, ARTSPEAK Gallery, Vancouver Pride, Buddies and Bad Times Theater, Maury Young Arts Centre and more. Most of her time is dedicated to her true passion - Soul House, a community organization that cultivates diverse art culture in the Sea-To-Sky Corridor. You can find her running multiple events locally such as her longest running show Poet Next Door, your local spoken word cafe and Queergasm.

Drea believes that storytelling is a vehicle to transform reality into what we dream it to be.


Registration details:

To register, please visit: https://squamishartsfestival.com/events/patchwork-poetry


Accessibility at this event:

  • Accessible, all-genders washroom.
  • Ramp entrance to building with handrails.
  • Masks welcome.
  • If you require further accommodations, please let us know on the registration page.
  • Find more information about accessibility library here

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Workshop | Special Event |

TAGS: | Workshop | Art |

Squamish Public Library

Phone: 604-892-3110

Hours
Mon, Aug 25 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Tue, Aug 26 10:00AM to 7:00PM
Wed, Aug 27 10:00AM to 7:00PM
Thu, Aug 28 10:00AM to 7:00PM
Fri, Aug 29 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Aug 30 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Aug 31 12:00PM to 4:00PM

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Conveniently located downtown, the Squamish Public Library has a large meeting room, quiet study spaces, an outdoor pickup window, and an art gallery.

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