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The Archival Image
The course
Gather with your fellow writers to seek inspiration in Toronto’s archival records.
In this eight-week course, participants will use visual material from the city’s archives as inspiration as they experiment with writing short fiction.
A mixture of instruction and critique sessions, participants will learn from experts and each other.
The instructors
The archival image is taught by [name], the Toronto Public Library’s writer-in-residence, and [name], the [instruction and outreach] archivist with the City of Toronto Archives.
[Guest author] and [guest author] will also be appearing as guest lecturers to talk about their experience using archives in their work.
The archive box
Each week, you will encounter a series of photographs from the Archives to inspire you.
Notes
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Registration would run through the exiting TPL system and would require a library card.
The term “archive box” is taken from the Tate Gallery’s Case Study 1 and the All About Us project (a wonderful resource and example). It seeds a connection between the images that will be used as writing prompts and the form of archival arrangement and storage they are drawn from. This section could link to a sample “box” created by instructors before the workshop begins as well as to material from past events in the series.