Stories in Transit XVII: Treekiller

This workshop at St-Leonard's-at-the-Hythe is taking place as part of the programme for Essex Book Festival. The story we will be working from on the day is of Erysichthon and Mestra, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Erysichthon, renamed Treekiller for the workshop, finds the curse of hunger upon him when he chops down a sacred, ancient tree. It is a tale of a tyrant, the significance of a single tree, and - of course - transformation and growth.

Participants

Alongside all the people who take part in the workshop, nessi include:

Gemma Brockis - artistic director, theatre director and performer.

Sophie Herxheimer - artist, story collector and poet, moving between poetry, painting, drawing and print.

Hannah Machover - workshop coordinator of Stories in Transit and artist (website here).

Philip Terry - poet, professor at the University of Essex, where he teaches Creative Writing

Marina Warner – writer and cultural historian, founder of Stories in Transit