Writers workshop with Christina Riley

Join our writers workshop with Christina Riley

Join published writer and artist, Christina Riley to create written work on the creatures of the coast in your own voice and through a different species' eyes.

As founder of The Nature Library, Christina's workshop focuses on the power of words and books for sharing underwater stories.

In The Argyll Hope Spot, Christina was moved by the malleability of perspective experienced underwater. Considering life from the eyes of a scallop (all 200 of them), sea squirt or brittle star. Her responses decentre the human experience without removing it completely—given that her group was wholly in the water alongside them. Rather than these astonishing marine lives being ‘alien’ or ‘not of this world’, to witness them was to see more clearly what this world truly is and holds, as though turning a mussel shell inside out to revealing its hidden luminescence.

All skill levels are welcome. Please attend with an adult if you are under 18.

Part of the Argyll Coast and Islands Hope Spot events programme for the Snorkelling Artist Residency Retrospective exhibition at The Rockfield Centre.

These workshops are paid for by Argyll Hope Spot with thanks to funding from the William Grant Foundation and you can enjoy them for free. Donations are very welcome and they will be held by the Friends of The Sound Of Jura for future Argyll Hope Spot projects.