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SUMMARY:Many Voices Collection: books and storytelling at the library!
DESCRIPTION:October is Black History Month and to celebrate\, the Many Voices Collection will be popping up at the library during our opening hours! \nThe Many Voices Collection is a collection curated by Oxford Poetry Library and The Children’s Allotment of childrens books featuring black characters\, written by black writers\, or which centre an anti-racist message. These books form part of the Oxford Poetry Library’s lending collection\, free to be borrowed and enjoyed for free by kids and adults alike. \nThe full Many Voices Collection will be available for visitors to browse\, read\, borrow\, and enjoy during our opening hours of 12pm-3pm at The Community Works on both Friday 11 October and Saturday 12 October. The pop-up is completely free\, drop in whenever you like and stay for as long as you like between 12pm and 3pm – suitable for kids of all ages! \nAs well as our books\, and made possible by the Transition Network and CAG Oxfordshire\, we have created a selection of videos of local black storytellers reading their favourite stories from the collection. From 12pm-3pm\, we will screen these videos in a cosy storytelling space! Kids and their grown-ups are invited to join Aunty Kiko as she shares Baby Elephant’s Safari by Aunty Kiko and illustrated by Moses Wanjuki\, Rawz in a story of magic\, music\, and monsters\, as he reads Abiyoyo by Pete Seeger\, illustrated by Michael Hays\, and Tiece who shares a favourite story from her childhood\, Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman\, illustrated by Caroline Binch. \n  \nThis event is happening in partnership with Makespace Oxford’s Black History Month programming.
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/many-voices-collection-books-and-storytelling-at-the-library-2/
LOCATION:The Community Works\, 21 Park End Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1HH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:How to Love the World: A workshop
DESCRIPTION:On any given day\, we have more cause to feel grief\, loss\, despair\, and rage than love. Such is the state of the world. Yet\, if love is one of the last frontiers of humanity\, can we grow to love the world? \nJoin us on November 23rd at 2pm-3.30pm in The Community Works for this exclusive one-off workshop where we will grow poems around loving the world despite everything that is wrong with it. We will look for and create language that can hold our wonder and ecstasy at the ‘bastard beauty’ of the world. \nWe will read and workshop some poems by poets Mark Nepo\, Ross Gay\, William Wordsworth\, Ada Limon\, Linda Gregg\, the Psalmist of Psalm 19\,  and others to explore ways of approaching the world with love in the form of a poem. \nThis workshop will be run by Nikita Arora. Nikita is a poet and writer who often explores human-nonhuman relationships in her work. Her writings have appeared in The Guardian\, Aeon\, Bad Lilies\, BBC Radio 6\, Punjabi Tribune and others. She was longlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing. She is also the author of Dakhalandazi\, a Punjabi essay collection on gender-based violence. She is a historian by training and is currently finishing her DPhil in History at Oxford University. \nEntry is free\, but registration is required here. Just bring yourself\, a pen and paper! All other materials will be provided. \nThe Oxford Poetry Library is an accessible space but please do contact us in advance if you have specific requirements. You can email us about this or with any questions about the workshop at oxfordpoetrylibary@gmail.com
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/eco-poetics-workshop/
LOCATION:The Community Works\, 21 Park End Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1HH\, United Kingdom
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