Tuesday May 21st 2024 / Sheffield Poetry Picnic: (un)interrupted tongues
Join Dal, in collaboration with the Centre of Equity and Inclusion, for a poetry picnic in Western Park, Sheffield (we have a wet-weather contingency plan if it rains!). Dal will be reading from her poetry book (un)interrupted tongues. There’ll be a chance to discuss how she created her work and questions.
email hello@dalkular.com for an invitation.
Saturday 11th May 2024 /Platt Fields Market Garden 11am - 4pm: Nurturing Soils
Touching on themes of re-connection and belonging, I’ll be joining authors Amy Jane Beer, winner of 2023 Wainwright Prize for Flow alongside Marchelle Farrell, winner of the 2021 Nan Shepherd Prize for Uprooting, to guide this celebration.
Join us for talks rooted in our passion for nature, guided workshops to further that connection, and organic food sourced straight from our home soil. More details and booking here.
Saturday 8th June 2024 / Peaks of Colour Zine-Making Walkshop, Peak District.
Dal will lead us in a Nature Writing and Zine Making Walkshop filled with walks, nature-allied creative writing, collage, rest and conversation. Inspired by the local landscape we'll be exploring our connections with/as nature, healing and liberation and turning these explorations into words and text-based collages. Think readings, writing, making, cutting, re-arranging, sticking, colour and playful mess-making!
More details and booking here. For People of Colour only.
Saturday 15th June 2024 /Western Park Museum, Sheffield 12pm - 4pm, in collaboration with Migration Matters Festival: (un)interrupted tongues: sharing partition stories through zine-making
(un)interrupted tongues: sharing partition stories through zine-making is a creative zine-making workshop exploring themes of the 1947 Partition of India. Inspired by Kular's own poetic exploration & healing as a 'grandchild of the partition', we'll be making poems, words and collages and turning them in to a mini-zine.
More information and booking here. For Global Majority folks only.
Sunday 14th July 2024 11am - 4pm / Black Nature in Residence & WOC Azadi Collective present: Creative writing & making workshop, Peak District.
Join Dal and Women of Colour Azadi Collective for a day of nature, rest and healing, conversation, creative word-making, and collaborative book-making. And lot’s of fun! This is collaboration is part of Dal’s creative residency for Black Nature in Residence Project (identity on tyne). This workshop is for women of colour, non-binary/LGBTQ+/trans women only. Transport will be supported. For more details and to be added to the guest list please email hello@dalkular.com
Wednesday 19th August 2024 /Online Love Notes to Nature: chapter reading from Wild Service, Wild Service Book Club
Details coming soon!