Dates:
7th May 2025
14th May 2025
21st May 2025
Times:
Arrival - 6:00 PM
Start Time 6:30 PM
End Time - 8:30 PM
Join Remi Graves for three workshops exploring poetic responses to the archive. Leaning on their research into transmasculine archival material, specifically linked to Paul Downing and using resources relating to Jim McHarris (pictured), and Ralph Kerwineo; Remi will guide participants through different creative approaches to archival material and trans history.
Whilst Remi will provide some examples of resources, participants are encouraged to bring material that they want to respond to and write from. If you’ve been doing your own research, have a photo, letter, object or newspaper article you want to engage with creatively, do bring it along!
Following the first session presented in collaboration with Cash from TRANSHOOD, sessions two and three will lean on the works of Jay Bernard, Cameron Awkward Rich, Susan Stryker and others to write our own poems inspired by and deeply connected to the archive.
Participants will leave the workshop series with new poems and the tools to speak back to the archive in engaging and meaningful ways.
Remi Graves is a poet and drummer. A former Barbican Young Poet, their work has been commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral, Barbican and BBC Radio 4. They have performed at Tate, Cheltenham Literature festival and more.
Remi has led courses at The Poetry School and facilitates in schools and community spaces across London. Remi’s debut pamphlet with your chest (2022) was published by fourteen poems. Remi is the winner of 2024 Prototype Prize (short form category).
TRANSHOOD is an anti-disciplinary black trans lesbian led resource, community & voice, dedicated to uplifting and platforming those of black trans experience. The initiative was founded in 2024, by Cash Nahuo Webster, a black trans-masculine lesbian from South London who seeks to create intentional, playful and resourceful spaces for black trans people to connect, share and explore the spectrum of their identities whilst receiving access to gender affirming resources.
Cash from TRANSHOOD will collaborate with Remi Graves for the first session of this workshop series.