Stories in Transit X: Online Workshop with Giocherenda and Compass Collective

A collaborative workshop with Giocherenda and Compass Collective.

28th November 2020

Online: UK, Palermo, France

This was our first workshop online, trialing a couple of story-making games: a new 'Nine Lives' game and Giocherenda's Wheel of Wishes.

Participants from Stories in Transit

Valentina Castagna - lecturer, translator, writer, former Associate Research Fellow at the Birkbeck College (University of London), worked for several years as an independent interpreter and translator for the Law Courts of Palermo

Dine Diallo - member of Giocherenda, art collective. Studying International Relations at the University of Palermo.

Sophie Herxheimer - artist, story collector and poet, moving between poetry, painting, drawing and print.

Hannah Machover - workshop coordinator of Stories in Transit and artist-maker

Roger Malbert - former Head of Hayward Touring and author of Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art (2015)

Federica Mazzara - Reader in Intercultural Communication at the University of Westminster. Federica works on migration and art.

Matthew Reynolds - writer, Professor of English and Comparative Criticism and Tutorial Fellow, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

Philip Terry - poet, professor at the University of Essex, where he teaches Creative Writing; writer and editor of The Penguin Book of Oulipo (2019)

Marina Warner – writer and cultural historian, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, Fellow of the British Academy and President-Elect of the Royal Society of Literature