{"id":559,"date":"2020-07-06T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=559"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:28:52","slug":"voices-of-the-earth-is-going-online-monday-3rd-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/voices-of-the-earth-is-going-online-monday-3rd-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices of the Earth at Woodbrooke is evolving&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Voices of the Earth <\/strong>has been an annual art and poetry course, encouraging serious creative play and cross-fertilisation of art forms underpinned by an awareness of the complexity of life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0076-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0076-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0076-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0076-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like other centres and facilities, the Woodbrooke Quaker study centre in Birmingham couldn&#8217;t be open for onsite events during pandemic restrictions. But we kept the culture of the course alive by taking it online.<\/p>\n<p>In two years on experiment with an interactive course spread flexibly over six weeks, using Zoom and Moodle,\u00a0 with forums and \u201ccreative exchange rooms\u201d. we&#8217;ve learned a lot about online ways of working.<\/p>\n<h3>In October 2022, the course is morphing into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodbrooke.org.uk\/product\/groundwork\/\"><strong>Groundwork<\/strong><\/a>, an online creative community running through nine months of the year to come.<\/h3>\n<p>Tutors: <strong>Philip Gross<\/strong> is a poet, prose writer, and until 2017, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. <strong>Z\u00e9lie Gross<\/strong> is a Quaker writer and editor, with a background in making and teaching of visual arts. For both, collaboration is a source of fresh work and delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voices of the Earth has been an annual art and poetry course, encouraging serious creative play and cross-fertilisation of art forms underpinned by an awareness of the complexity of life on Earth. Like other centres and facilities, the Woodbrooke Quaker study centre in Birmingham couldn&#8217;t be open for onsite events during pandemic restrictions. But we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipgross.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}