Join us on July 23, 2023 from 2 - 4pm for a free poetry and intro-to-paper-quilling workshop with Tea Gerbeza!

Beds. We sleep in them, we dream in them, we rest in them, recover in them, are sick in them, feel pain in them, pleasure, safety, isolation. Beds are complicated places. Our relationships to our beds are complex, especially for those of us who are sick and/or disabled. Add in the complexities of pain—physical, mental, emotional, chronic, episodic, situational—and personhood. How does pain shape and inform identity? What is your relationship to pain like? What shapes would you give your pain if you could?

Poet and artist Tea Gerbeza will lead a workshop that blends poetry and paper-quilling. She will teach participants how to paper quill a few basic quilling shapes, and will invite participants to write original lines of poetry on paper strips based on prompts about pain—how one feels pain, thinks about pain, connects to pain. Then, participants will be encouraged to assign a shape to their pain from the few basic paper quilling shapes they’ve learned to make to create a paper-quilled bed (that doubles as a visual poem or poem-object). All materials needed for this workshop will be provided by the Art Gallery of Regina.

To ensure we have materials for everyone, workshop spaces are limited. Please register in advance to save your spot:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bedscapes-a-poetry-and-paper-quilling-workshop-with-tea-gerbeza-tickets-648536418887?aff=oddtdtcreator

Accessibility: paper quilling is a dexterous art form. A possible way to make this workshop more accessible is to collaborate with someone. For instance, one person does the quilling while the other does the poetry and both create a bed.