Rhythm & Non-Sense

In collaboration with Galway Arts Centre, Meadhbh McNutt & Seán O’Riordan will lead a two-day writing workshop series at Nuns Island Theatre on Monday & Sunday, 18 & 24 September.

Rhythm & Non-sense invites participants to explore writing practices that uncover creative uses for the failures and rhythmic disruptions – such as pause, breath, hesitation or distortion – that shape communication.

In the Information Age, text is increasingly interpreted as content, to be delivered in a parasocial dynamic. In this workshop, we will observe how our writing changes depending on rhythm, connection, delivery and physical presence. The workshop takes as its starting point Ursula K. Le Guin’s claim that “telling is listening“, before delving into ideas around the “queer art of failure” as described by Jack Halberstam, among other texts and exercises.