We are hosting a writing workshop on Blackout Poetry on August 15, 1-3:30pm facilitated by Jasmine Gui! The practice blackout poetry is to engage a creative process of controlled destruction. We are in conversation with Deaf Spectrum to provide accessibility to this event. Please let us know if you need ASL interpretation or other access needs by emailing yourlocalcollective@gmail.com

Jasmine Gui is a diasporic Singaporean working in Dish With One Spoon territory, specifically Tkaronto. She is an interdisciplinary artist, arts programmer and tea practitioner whose work explores counter-archivals, labours, translations, traversals, and grief. She works at the intersections of paper art, text and markmaking.

This is part of our 2-month long festival, Year of the Mall Rat, combining three workshops and one livestreamed concert from August to September in this zodiac year of the rat. The festival draws on the resourcefulness of city rats: scavenging, gathering, recreating, reimagining, and dragging pizza up the subway steps. We will always strive to emulate their clever and creative intuition in the basement of Chinatown Centre Mall.