Open to UofT students, faculty and alumni
Event: Articulating the Body: Ekphrasis at the Maude Abbott Museum (Digital Experience)
Date: May 10. 7 pm-9pm
Sponsors: Poetry Matters of McGill University; Maude Abbott Medical Museum; University of Toronto Program In Health, Arts and Humanities
Description: In this virtual workshop open only to University of Toronto students, faculty, and alumni, workshop leader Dr. Shane Neilson will take you through several ekphrastic exercises that will be both individual and collaborative. The workshop is deliberately constructed to start slow, at the descriptive level, and it carefully builds in a layered fashion. The body becomes animated and then begins developing links to other bodies and structures. The goal is to refine creative writing techniques. The special aspect to this workshop is that the creative materials used for ekphrasis come from the important legacy of the legendary figure of Dr. Maude Abbott who, according to the Canadian Encyclopedia, “paved the way for women in medicine” and who, based on her work as a pathologist, “laid the foundation for modern heart surgery.” Dr. Rick Fraser, director of the Maude Abbott Medical Museum and an anatomic pathologist himself, will serve as the evening’s “living exhibit.”
Size Limit: 20, so sign up now!
Link for Sign Up: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/articulating-the-body-tickets-309927831487