QYAC Workshop: Collaborative Creative Writing Workshop and Open Mic

Workshop: 1.5 hours (12 - 1:30pm) - A writing workshop where we will work together to create poetry/ storytelling but building off of each other's words. Write a line, pass it on.

Open mic: 2 hours (2 - 4pm) - An open floor opportunity for anyone to get up and share poetry/prose/something important to you with a friendly audience 

About the artist

Miggy is a multidisciplinary artist- they write stories, paints, pictures and perform in drag and clown. Miggy has been putting on workshops and open mics solo and with their group Unfinished Art Collective, which promotes sharing in the creative process.

AboutQueer Youth Art Collective (QYAC)

This workshop is part of the Queer Youth Art Collective exhibition What Was, What Is, What Could Be- an exhibition by Queer Youth Art Collective (QYAC) following on from their three-month residency at Camberwell Space.

Queer Youth Art Collective is the UK’s only national LGBTQIA+ youth service working specifically in the arts. During their Camberwell Space residency, creatives aged between 18-28 were selected through an open call and introduced to what a studio practice could look like. This included workshops and mentorship from technicians as well as other members of staff at Camberwell College of Arts.

This exhibition marks a turning point, handing the reins of the organisation over to the young artists, alumni and community which has surrounded QYAC. Since 2019, QYAC has curated four group exhibitions with hundreds of queer artists from across the UK including at Bluecoat Liverpool, Glasgow Zine Fest, Curious Arts Newcastle, Studio Voltaire and QUEERCIRCLE.

The work of the residents in the exhibition will be accompanied by an archive of seven years of QYAC, curated in partnership with The Museum of Transology (MoT). The archive will then move to Bishopsgate Institute following the show.

Alongside this, a newly commissioned textiles piece called The Hanging Archivewill be in display, co-produced by QYAC attendees, facilitators and alumni as well as contributions from The Brunswick Centre LGBTQ+ yOUTh Service (Kirklees and Calderdale), Out Together (Leeds), HuGG Huddersfield Gay Group, Frutti Tutti (Leeds), Proud Terriers (Huddersfield), and Curious Arts Middlesbrough Curious Young Creatives.

In the words of QYAC - ‘We refuse censorship or judgement. In doing so we make more art possible’.

With generous support from Arts Council England, David Family Foundation, UAL and Awards for All.

For more information about the residency: www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/camberwell-college-of-arts/whats-on/camberwell-space/queer-youth-art-collective