Open Spaces: Thinking ‘otherWise’: Decolonisation of knowing through blackout poetry

This event is part of our Open Spaces programme.

Join Dr Thushari Welikala, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education Innovation and Development at this poetry workshop.

This workshop takes a creative approach to collaboratively decolonise ‘decolonisation’ by co-creating blackout poetry.

Blackout poetry is a simple art form that helps articulate complex realities. It allows the creation of new meanings by disrupting those of an already existing written text (a poem, a page from a newspaper article, report, book etc). This is done by blacking out sections of writing with marker pens to create a new message.

The workshop will offer attendees the opportunity to critically contest their current understandings of ‘decolonisation’ and to (re)imagine ways of challenging coloniality embedded in the process of learning and living. The event creates the space to move away from colonial designs of thinking through a ‘rationale’ of fantasy and fabrication.

Attendees do not need to be familiar with blackout poetry or be a ‘poet’ to actively engage with this workshop. All welcome.

Contact Details

openspaces@sgul.ac.uk