PSYCHOSOCIAL TELEPATHY FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN – A workshop with Kate Paul

2-4pm PSYCHOSOCIAL TELEPATHY FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN

12-6pm Library research installation open

Join us for a writing* workshop for adults and children with artist and writer Kate Paul, where participants will be guided through a series of writing experiments using notions of telepathy and false understanding, and materials like music, ribbon and steel. *If preferred, participants can draw, mark-make, or speak instead of write.

Experiments will adapt in relation to emerging preferences, play, refusals, and enthusiasm. To make sure this process is well-adapted to attendees there is a survey as part of the booking process that we ask you to fill in. 

Underlying this workshop is Kate’s interest in the trope of telepathic children in science fiction (see for example the story Corona by Samuel R. Delaney), and psychosocial methods and analyses relating to childcare. Two books are an underlying resource: The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene details a multilateral psychosocial problem solving method with children who don’t meet adult expectations, and Counselling and Social Work by Judith Brearly, a social work training book published in 1995, details the psychic complications of social work. Kate is developing a novella and a zine resource relating to this research.

The space will be open with installed elements + tea & snacks from 12-6pm. And the workshop will run from 2-4pm.

You are welcome to drop in for a chat, a read, a look.

This workshop is free but ticketed. Interested parties are invited to apply using the Google form link.

Spaces for the workshop are limited to 15 https://forms.gle/67McL99noLA7pk3R8

The session will take place in our space at 13 Ross Street, which is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible gender neutral toilet. Hot drinks and snacks will be provided. We have travel and childcare bursaries available, please get in touch on market@marketgallery.org to request them. 

This event is a response to Market Gallery’s Resource Library, a small lending library home to a growing collection of books on anti-racism and solidarity across global political movements. The library functions as an educational resource where learning and conversations can take place.