Vert Institute

for art events and writing

Kay Syrad & Chris Drury

Vert Institute, established in 2015, operates from our house and studio on the edge of Vert Wood near the village of Laughton, near Lewes. The aim of the Institute is to offer unusual and stimulating art and writing events and workshops based on the creative ideas and experience of poet-novelist Kay Syrad and world-renowned land artist Chris Drury. Events and workshops will be offered at various points throughout the year, always with a basis in ideas about and embodied experience of inside|outside, microcosm| macrocosm, and nature|culture. The programme may include walks and opportunities for making work outside, small exhibitions, talks and performances, and a variety of writing workshops.  

Winter Programme

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Making a journal

diurnalis  jurnal  diurnal

Using examples from both writers and artists, this course will explore the ritual of making a journal, which could be anything from writing haiku at 5pm each weekday to gathering an object every day for a year. We will start with an afternoon looking at an exciting range of historical and contemporary journals, and then meet more or less fortnightly between November and March, continuing to explore different styles and forms whilst supporting you in starting and sustaining your own winter journal. All welcome.

Introductory session: Sunday 1^st November 2.30 - 6.30pm                    

then 8 sessions on Sundays, 4.00 – 6.30pm

(starting with afternoon tea)

15/29^th November; 13^th December; 10/24^th January; 7^th/21^st February; 6^th March

With Guest Speakers on 15^th November & 21^st February

Cost for all 9 sessions:  £130   Contact Kay via website www.kaysyrad.co.uk

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also coming soon

Day retreats for writers

  Vert Institute

for art events and writing

Kay Syrad and Chris Drury

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An experimental writing workshop

Reverie and Transparency

The workshop, led by Kay for poets or prose writers is designed to encourage free, clear writing by drawing on a study of ritual in creative practice by visual anthropologist, Amanda Ravetz, and the work of Swiss/Latin American artist Mira Schendel.

Saturday, 26^th September   2.15 – 5.00pm

£25.00 to include tea and cake

Contact Kay via her website www.kaysyrad.co.uk

 for more details and to book your place.

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Winter VERT

Making a journal

diurnalis  jurnal  diurnal

Using examples from both writers and artists, this course will explore the ritual of making a journal, which could be anything from writing haiku at 5pm each weekday to gathering an object every day for a year. We will start with an afternoon looking at an exciting range of historical and contemporary journals, and then meet more or less fortnightly between November and March, continuing to explore different styles and forms whilst supporting you in starting and sustaining your own winter journal.

                 

               Introductory session - Sunday 1^st November 
                    2.30 - 6.30pm                 

then 8 sessions on Sundays, 4.00 – 6.30pm

(starting with afternoon tea)

15/29^th November; 13^th December; 10/24^th January; 7^th/21^st February; 6^th March

 Cost for all 9 sessions:  Early bird payment by 1^st October: £120

Full payment (no later than 15^th October): £130

Contact Kay via her website www.kaysyrad.co.uk

 for more details and to book your place.  

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Vert Institute

Vert Institute, established in 2015, operates from our house and studio on the edge of Vert Wood near the village of Laughton. The aim of the Institute is to offer unusual and stimulating art and writing events and workshops based on the creative ideas and experience of poet-novelist Kay Syrad and world-renowned land artist Chris Drury.

Events and workshops will be offered at various points throughout the year, always with a basis in ideas about and embodied experience of inside|outside, microcosm| macrocosm, and nature|culture.

The programme may include walks and opportunities for making work outside, small exhibitions, talks and performances, and a variety of writing workshops. 

All welcome.

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 www.kaysyrad.co.uk   /  www.chrisdrury.co.uk

Announcements of events will be posted on Chris’s website www.chrisdrury.co.uk

and on twitter at @kaysyrad

Vert Institute

for

 art events and writing

Vert Institute, established in 2015, operates from our house and studio on the edge of Vert Wood near the village of Laughton. The aim of the Institute is to offer unusual and stimulating art and writing events and workshops based on the creative ideas and experience of poet-novelist Kay Syrad and world-renowned land artist Chris Drury.

Events and workshops will be offered at various points throughout the year, always with a basis in ideas about and embodied experience of inside|outside, microcosm| macrocosm, and nature|culture.

The programme may include walks and opportunities for making work outside, small exhibitions, talks and performances, and a variety of writing workshops. 

All welcome.

Current programme: A writing workshop on Saturday 26th September and a course starting 1st November. Contact Kay through this website for further details.

EXCHANGE - a new book by Kay Syrad & Chris Drury

Greetings!  Here is news of our new book and exhibition based on our Cape Farewell residency on three farms in Dorset:

Please click on the link below for more details and the opportunity to buy 

a copy of this limited edition hardback book beautifully produced by

Little Toller Books:

http://littletoller.co.uk/bookshop/new-books/exchange/

A paperback version will also be produced later this summer.

1000 tasks: work of the lightshipmen

Greetings for 2015

                                        

Please come to the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sunday
15th February for the 'Dear Serge' day, featuring an exhibition of
1000 tasks: work of the lightshipmen, my artist's book created
for the multi-media project Last Station, with installations by
lead artists Mary Hooper and Elise Liversedge, plus two human
fog-horning worshops and two performances of our choral work,
The Light Vessel, composed by the renowned saxophonist
Trevor Watts, with my libretto. See you there.
See http://www.dlwp.com/event/dear-serge1 and scroll down.