Exciting news! I’ve been working all year on a vertigo arts project, collaborating with people in academia, physical therapy, puppetry, and dance. Now I’m running a creative writing workshop for people directly or indirectly affected by vertigo to process some of their experiences through the written word.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23 at 1100 a.m. Central Standard Time (5 p.m. GMT). This workshop is FREE TO ATTEND with funding provided by the Impact and Innovation Fund of the University of St Andrews, Scotland–but we do ask that you register in advance! For more questions or to register, please email ar220@st-andrews.ac.uk
We will draw on some of the complexities, difficult symptoms, and feelings that characterise the condition such as loss of balance, mobility, disorientation, dizziness, anxiety, impact on social relationships, etc. You will be given some prompts to work with, but you will be encouraged to write at your own pace, using forms or technique that are most comfortable to you.
I know that this doesn’t apply to many/most of you, but please spread the word to anyone you know who DOES live with vertigo or someone who has vertigo. This is not the last thing I will get to tell you about from the vertigo arts project–this is just the beginning of the cool stuff we’ve been doing.