Events

Nov
11
6:00 PM18:00

Nature Writing Workshop - Place: Reading the landscape

Join Mia-Francesca Jones in exploring how to write places that feel alive.

Learn how observation can capture wild weather, shifting seasons and dappled light. From coastlines to city parks, explore how the world around us shapes stories through field writing, sky‑gazing and contemporary nature writing.

This is presented as part one of Yarra Libraries Nature Writing Workshops. Book the other sessions below.

Session 2: Character: More-than-human lives

Session 3: Structure: Hidden stories

If you have accessibility questions or requirements, please contact us at yarralibraries@yarracity.vic.gov.au or on 1300 695 427.

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Nov
18
to Jan 10

Romy Durrant and Mia-Francesca Jones: Remember This

  • Library at the Dock (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This exhibition brings together Romy Durrant and Mia-Francesca Jones' visual art and writing for the first time to continue an ongoing conversation about their lives and creative practices, and how they have shifted and evolved over time – through illness, birth, love, grief, disability and geography.

Working from shared themes and concerns – mental health and ecology – the artists extend this conversation across their chosen art forms. Three central images – flood, flight and light – form the basis of their exploration.

Remember This gives insight into how artists negotiate the collaborative process, asking how our environments and relationships shape our material choices and, more broadly, our creative lives.

Come along to the exhibition launch on Thursday 19 November, 5.30pm to 7pm.

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Nov
18
6:00 PM18:00

Nature Writing Workshop - Character: More-than-human lives

Join Mia-Francesca Jones in a fascinating exploration of how to create believable and unique non-human characters in your writing.

Every ecosystem is filled with different personalities. Explore how to portray the unique perspectives of birds, insects, plants and animals to create believable, more‑than human characters. Share work, exchange feedback and ask questions as you expand your writing.

This is presented as part two of our Nature Writing Workshops. Book for the other sessions below.

Session 1: Place: Reading the landscapes

Session 3: Structure: Hidden stories

If you have accessibility questions or requirements, please contact us at yarralibraries@yarracity.vic.gov.au or on 1300 695 427.

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Nov
25
6:00 PM18:00

Nature Writing Workshop - Structure: Hidden stories

Join Mia-Francesca Jones in an exciting examination of how natural landscapes can inspire the different ways you can let your story unfold.

Nature rarely tells stories in straight lines. Explore different writing structures inspired by rivers, stars, seashells and tree knots. Whether developing existing work or starting something new, discover creative ways to shape your writing.

This is presented as part three of our Nature Writing Workshops. Book the other workshops below.

Session 1: Place: Reading the Landscapes

Session 2: Character: More-than-human lives

If you have accessibility questions or requirements, please contact us at yarralibraries@yarracity.vic.gov.au or on 1300 695 427.

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Feb
22
10:30 PM22:30

Connecting to Nature, Sky and Self

  • Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us at Bargoonga Nganjin and learn the art of nature writing.

Writer Mia-Francesca Jones leads this nature writing workshop designed to help you observe, imagine and, most importantly, write! Using guided prompts and readings from contemporary nature writers, practice forms of attention including weather watching, sky-gazing and field writing. Ideal for fiction and non-fiction writers at all levels.

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Jun
12
6:00 PM18:00

Family Living Room Lights

'family living room lights' is the first instalment of Lor Journal’s reading series for 2018. The event will be held in artist-run gallery Cage me a Peacock in the historic Nicholas Building.  The series invites poets and listeners to engage with local spaces. The first evening is a showcase of 5 emerging practitioners, with projections by Eva Zvedeniuk. 

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