Solitary to Solidary
Summer Workshop
Tuesdays, 24 June - 15 July 2025
Create a project across distances. Rediscover your own area. Engage your skillsets. Discover new ways of working through collaborators.
Plug in - individually. With your artform as a writer/artist. Explore your own context and surroundings through your specific interests and creative skillset.
Connect - collaboratively. Discover each other’s materials, applied artforms, lived experience, contexts, both outdoors/indoors.
Create - a collaborative project made from these shared exchanges, materials, skills, interests, situations, translations. Work and share across distances, discover surprising types of closeness.
Enjoy a new and enriching way of working together. Bridge distances.
Create a shared project/artwork across distances & networks
Join me for four live sessions with other writers and artists!
The Summer Workshop welcomes art practitioners and writers from all kinds of fields and forms. The focus is on collaborative ways of working while deepening your individual processes. We work translocally: across distances while rediscovering the near.
Get back on track with your work, explore new ideas, get resources, work and meet with like-minded peers from across the world.
Through small group work, collaborative tasks and creative forms of dialogue and exchange, the workshop is a place for lively exchanges, refreshing one’s resources and sharing ideas. You will be developing a project in small groups.
We are solitary in the ways we need to carry and apply our own processes, and strengthen our motivation. Together, we turn to more solidary ways of working, we learn to look around, near and far, and apply our skills differently.
Who you are
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Emerging to established writers/artists.
A range of experiences, knowledge and approaches is of great value here. It renews and deepens. What matters is that you have previously brought a project to completion. The workshop is inclusive and culturally diverse.
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You enjoy working collaboratively. Exchanging, sharing and listening. and being changed by this.
The workshop is favourable and productive to artists and writers who are open to sharing work processes and enjoy working and exchanging with others.
Exploratory spirit - project motivation
Stretch and transform your ways of working by exploring materials, ideas, and cultural parameters with others and according to tasks.
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Multilingual - working with and beyond English
English is the workshop’s working language but not necessarily the only language at work. You are encouraged to bring your languages and identities to the work and conversations.
Make contact
If you have any queries about the workshop and what you would bring to it.
Practical Info
TUESDAYS 24 June - 15 July 2025, 6.30 - 8.00pm GMT / 2.30pm EST/ 7.30 CET
3 x weekly live online group sessions - 1.5 hours per week. Sessions are recorded
1 x week small group project coaching with Caroline
Self-directed individual and small group work - Approx. 3 hours per week
Private platform for shared sketches, group project research and ongoing support. Caroline will be available on the platform throughout the course
Project work will mostly take place in small groups of 3/4. This combination provides a very conducive and personal way of working while accessing the benefits of the larger group
Cost
Full Price for the Summer Workshop: £ 240
Early Bird offer (ends 15 May): £190 in full, or 2 instalments of £95
Please note: to book your place, click the button below, which will take you to a short application form and payment.
Meet worlds in your work.
Together, we turn to collaborative, solidary and communal ways of working. We work with translocal intent: across distances while rediscovering the near. Dialogue with curiosity, share and exchange, and apply our skills contextually.
Creating projects that are developed across artforms and languages will be facilitated and encouraged.
Through tasks, briefs, and creative forms of dialogue and exchange, live translation exhange, you get to widen your own scope, enrich your skills, get out of comfort zones, and develop a more multi-facetted awareness as well as generous ways of working.
Previous Workshop Testimonials
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"Caroline is a wonderful facilitator, very generous, open minded and welcoming. She really encourages people to be experitmental and trustful. "
- Collaborative Writing Participant
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"The course was really useful also in making new connections and drawing on other people's different skills and insights. I have agreed to stay in touch with two of the artists on the course and exchange work and ideas with them; this is something that I am really looking forward to."
- Practice Conversations Participant
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"[I enjoyed] the collaborative process of sharing material and co-writing, discovering other approaches, meeting new people outside my field."
- Collaborative Writing Participant
Dialogue as Creative And Insightful Work
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Project Focus
In small working groups there's time dedicated to exploring a shared project as well as bringing in your own creativity.
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Main Group Dialogue
This is our weekly conversation in the round: a time for engaging with discoveries, and dilemmas large and small. We’ll slowly turn these into insights and learning processes.
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Caroline's Micro talk
A short guiding talk by Caoline to spark ides, surprising associations, new directions and resources
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Session with Caroline
Each collaborative small team will be offered a surgery with Caroline as part of the course.
I am a writer, an interdisciplinary artist and performer. A fundamental aspect of my work is a commitment to favouring multilingual, cross-form and radical work processes. I have 25 years experience developing art projects and poetic works as well as teaching interdisciplinary writing practices in universities and art colleges across the world and am used to working both locally and internationally in many contexts, situations, collaborations.