It’s almost summer. Let’s be impractical, local, and small.
The edge of a swimming pool with a bright yellow deck. Photo credit: Etienne Girardet (via Unsplash).
Seven Swimming Pools is back!
The sky is clear, the leaves are singing, and one of our favourite things is coming up.
Seven Swimming Pools is a once-a-year program designed for everyone.
It’s large format, so no limit on how many people can come.
It’s sliding scale so you can find a price that works for you (or suggest one if the whole scale doesn’t fit.)
It’s a distraction-friendly, cameras on or off, wide-open invitation into experimental joy.
It’s also really, really fun for us.
All year we keep a little corner of our brains on the question: What new, fun thing do I want to explore with our people this summer? What’s coming alive in my workshops? What keeps niggling at my attention?
Each of us land on something we would love to do with a group for 90 minutes, and we support each other to design a session around that.
Then you get seven sessions, one led by each of us, in our uniqueness and our weirdness, offering something that lights us up.
This year we have a gorgeous line up:
Sophia’s session will be about animal stories, and all the ways non-human life can shine in our work.
Kim’s session will be about writing for kids — including our own child selves.
Asifa’s session will focus on accessing courage in this bruising world, and bringing that to our writing.
Mine is on Covid stories — unpacking some of the writing material we’ve gathered in this extraordinary time and starting to write it.
Mari’s session is about ekphrastic writing, using graffiti, dance and paintings to unlock new directions in our work.
Britt’s will be helping us write with our distractions, not despite them.
Nina will close us out with a session about accessing self-compassion for our writing selves.
Personally, I’m hoping to make it to all of them. :)
We’re recording all the sessions this year, they’ll be available through the summer if you miss one.
This is where we try to open our door the widest, so if there’s any way we can make this more accessible for you, let us know.
Let’s let Rebecca Solnit take us out today.
I read this passage a couple of weeks ago and I can’t stop turning it over in my mind.
I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.
Yes. Let’s be impractical and local and small. Together.
Wishing you space for all your meanderings today…
In it with you,
