28 Feb
2024
2024
18.00–20.00
Poetry of the plants: writing and paper embroidery workshop with Yana Lema Otavalo
La Cápsula, Anwandstrasse 9, Zürich
In Peguche, a Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Otavalo Canton, textile arts are a central part of life, sometimes used as a form of writing. The poet, translator, artist and activist Yana Lema Otavalo, who is currently a resident at Translator House Looren, believes that these forms of writing go beyond words. They allow us to enter a dialogue with other kingdoms of nature and with the ancestral, spiritual world.
How do plants write? What is their poetry? Explore these questions during this plant poetry and paper embroidery workshop.
6pm-8pm: Workshop
8pm: finissage of the exhibition “El ombligo del mundo” (“The belly button of the world”) and apéro
Free entry, register to lacapsula.zh@gmail.com by 24th February.
In Spanish and English, with consecutive interpreting by Adriana Dominguez.
More information: Poesía de las plantas