//WET LAND//WET WORDS//WET WORK//

A free workshop for the LGBTQIA+ community led by artist, Indigo Wills “Cornwall is a landscape comprised of damp. Noticeably soaked and salt washed. The wetness is boundless. The wet land is queer.” ~ Workshop facilitator, Indigo Wills Through writing and zine making, we will unearth our own relationships to the wetness of the local landscape. This exploration of wetness will become a way to explore our community’s resistance to the inherent heteronormativity of the dry. Writing will be treated as an experimental, judgment free and inclusive tool.

After the workshop the zines will be collated into a ‘mother’ zine where all our shared writings will exist as a collective form of self-publishing. Creating a pocket-sized reminder for the local queer community that rural spaces are wet, queer and where we belong.

Content warning: There will be discussions about enforced heteronormativity which may include discussions around inherent societal queerphobia, transphobia, homophobia, ableism.

This event is supporting our ambition to become a safer space for the LGBTQIA+ community 🏳️‍🌈

At Trevow Helston, we’re developing an evolving Actively Safe Space Manifesto for our venue that we hope will serve as a blueprint for other venues locally and nationally. This workshop will help us understand what our manifesto needs to include to work towards creating a safer space for the LGBTQIA+ community.

This event is made possible through the Cornwall Community Foundation and People In Mind Fund.