Creative Writing Workshops at King Cross Library, Halifax
The title of these workshops comes from Carol Mavor’s evocative and eclectic collection of essays which draw on the colour blue through the history of art, photography, literature, folklore and mythology.
In the introduction to Blue Mythologies, Mavor, who claims to be a connoisseur of blue, says:
“The French novelist, Marie Darrieussecq, remarked that ‘astronauts are trained not to go insane when they see the Earth from above, round and blue, smaller than their porthole.’ More soothing are the words of Rebecca Solnit who poetically claims that ‘the world is blue at its edges and in its depths’.”
Blue blood. Blueprint. Feeling blue. The blue hour. Blue-sky thinking, Mood indigo. Bowerbirds, Blue-footed Boobies, Cyanometers. Rhapsodies in blue. Azure. Cerulean. Novalis’s enigmatic Blaue Blume and the precious blue planet that we inhabit…
In this 7-week course with writer, Gaia Holmes, we will delve into the vast, rich, variegated worlds of the colour blue. We’ll look at blue in poetry, prose, art, psychology and folklore and use it as the inspiration for our own writing.
.Where: King Cross Library, 151 Haugh Shaw Rd, Halifax HX1 3BG
When: Saturday mornings, 10.30- 12.30 from the 20th of April to the 1st of June.
How much: 7 sessions= £56 (£46 concessions)- tea/coffee provided. Booking advised.
For more information contact Gaia gaiaholmes@hotmail.co.uk
Tel: 0772 4620842
Gaia Holmes 
Hello Gaia, At first glance I thought it said Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin’s classic). Finally, a subject I can talk about with a modicum of confidence. But no, foiled by a misplaced ‘h.’. I checked with Professor Google but there was no mistake. Despite this setback, you can expect me at the appointed hour.
Paddy xx