Travelling Coven:
Stitchin’ Witch with Stacey Teague
Embroidery for Starling journal by Stacey Teague.
Date options: 20 or 21 October 2021
Price options: Half Broom ($995) or Full Broom ($1130)
The tradition of needlework, conversation and creative dreaming is alive and well. In this bespoke travelling coven event, poet and embroiderer Stacey Teague will lead you through a creative framework for thinking about images and how they can inspire visual and literary languages. A selection of images will be available for people to respond to. Participants can draw their own embroidery design based on ideas in one or more of the images. Thinking about this process, how does it relate to producing a piece of writing? What are the parallels between responding to an image and making an embroidery and making a poem?
In this cosy workshop, you and your coven will write down ideas based around images that Stacey will bring along. Using this as a base, you will then design your embroidery and draft a poem. Time will be given to each of these projects. After this, we will begin to stitch the embroidery before switching back to poetry and build on what you have written.
Materials included (Embroidery hoop, needles, thread).
This event is for a maximum of 12 guests.
About Travelling Covens:
Verb Travelling Covens are intimate, one-off events with writers who will travel, along with some of our festival makers, to your home to share their knowledge and skills with you and your own coven. These events are intimate explorations of creative writing, crafting and reading made for the cosy surrounds of domesticity. Over the last while we have all spent a lot more time at home than we might usually so and this is our way of acknowledging that home is where so much art is dreamed up and made.
Our four travelling coven events are with writers who have particularly special interests: Johanna Knox is a writer and forager; Ingrid Horrocks is an essayist and nature writer who draws on memories of travel; Stacy Teague is a poet and embroiderer; and Jess Richards is an artist and novelist. Each of these incredible women have crafted a bespoke experience to bring to your home, just for Verb.
How they work:
Share the ticket price among your own friends and bring your coven together. Travelling Covens have been designed for groups of 5 - 18 people to attend unless otherwise specified. Each Travelling Coven is purchased by one person who invites their friends to attend. Friends then pay a donation to the host; we suggest splitting the purchase price evenly between you all. Please note that only one tax receipt can be issued (to the original purchaser). Verb is not responsible for payments between guests and hosts.
There are two date options for each Travelling Coven event however each event only takes place once. Once they are purchased they are sold out.
Half Broom ($995): If you choose this option then you are purchasing the event, any relevant materials, as well as platters and a gift for each guest. You can have a minimum of 5 guests and a maximum of 18 unless otherwise specified.
Full Broom ($1130): If you choose this option then you are purchasing the event, any relevant materials, platters for your guests, drinks, tea, chocolates and a gift for each guest. You can have a minimum of 5 guests and a maximum of 18 unless otherwise specified.
Terms and conditions for Travelling Covens
There are four Travelling Covens designed to take place in people’s homes: Kitchen Witch with Jess Richards; Stitchin’ Witch with Stacey Teague; Foraging & Writing with Johanna Knox; and Travel Memoir with Ingrid Horrocks.
Travelling Covens have been designed for groups of 5 - 18 people to attend. Each Travelling Coven can be purchased by one person only who invites their friends to attend. Friends then pay a donation to the host; we suggest splitting the purchase price evenly between you all. Please note that only one tax receipt can be issued (to the original purchaser). Verb is not responsible for payments between guests and hosts. Tickets can not be sold on an individual basis.
All correspondence with the Travelling Coven writers regarding each event remains with Verb.
The ticket purchaser agrees to:
Host the Travelling Coven in their home (or be purchasing on behalf of someone else who has agreed to host)
Arrange for their friends and guests to attend
Ensure there are a minimum of five people attending (please note, the ticket price can not decrease)
Ensure there are no more than 18 people attending
Allow Verb to collect guests’ names and contact details, and provide a QR code for sign in using the NZ Covid Tracer app
Allow Verb to visit the host’s home in the weeks prior so we can talk through basic health and safety needs and sign a simple MOU between us
Allow Verb to create a bespoke environment tailored for each workshop (this could include us bringing in decorations, cushions and lighting, for instance)
Allow Verb to document the Travelling Coven (this would not be extensive, perhaps one or two photos per session)
Respond to all communications with Verb in the lead up to the event.
Note: The host of Foraging & Writing: Johanna Knox must have access to a large garden or nearby bush area.
Cancellation:
If Verb is forced to cancel a Travelling Coven, then the purchaser of the Travelling Coven event will be fully refunded.
If the host is forced to cancel then a refund will be discussed on a case-by-case basis (depending on the time frame, some costs may not be able to be refunded. This will be covered in more detail in the MOU).