A Horse Walks into a Bar: Can the structures of jokes help our writing by more evocative and affecting?
Free Webinar/Workshop with Pip Adam
6.00-7.30pm, 9 January 2025 (NZT)
Free Webinar/Workshop with Pip Adam
6.00-7.30pm, 9 January 2025 (NZT)
A horse walks into a bar.
Bartenders says, Why the long face?
In this webinar/workshop we'll look at the elements and structures of jokes to see how they might be deployed in fiction and other imaginative writing. This isn’t a class on how to write funny. Instead, we'll be looking ‘under the hood’ of jokes to see how they elicit a spontaneous and physical response in order to see if we might use these tools to make our fiction more evocative and affecting. The workshop will consist of close-reading and reflective exercises.
I've been extremely grateful to be one of the Ursula Bethell residents at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha in Ōtautahi for the last five months. Through this I've been able to think, write and research comedy, jokes, clowning and the weaponisation of humour. This webinar workshop is a way of sharing some of the things I've been thinking about during the residency.
The workshop will be recorded and a link sent to all registered people - so if you can't make the time you can watch the recording.
Please register - so I can send you the link for the workshop and recording.
Register here
This is a workshop based on one I facilitated at Word Christchurch Festival 2023
I'm offering this workshop free of charge.
I've listed some organisations below whose work means a lot to me. I'd love it if you were able to spend a bit of time reading about the work these organisations do and the information they share. There are some amazing resources on their websites. Also, if you are able and it won't cause financial stress, please consider giving a donation or koha to one of these organisations.
People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) is a prison abolitionist organisation working for a fairer, safer, and more just Aotearoa. Since PAPA's formation in 2015 as a group concerned about the treatment of transgender people in prisons, they've become a mass-based organisation that works with different communities to address the worst problems of the criminal justice system, and to build a better one.
Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero is a charitable trust that delivers programmes that promote and foster Māori literature and its place in the literature of the nation. Since 2000, the Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero has been fostering new and emerging Māori writers, transforming the literary landscape of Aotearoa, nurturing Māori voices, with a story to tell.
Gender Minorities Aotearoa (GMA) is run by and for transgender people; including binary and non-binary, irawhiti takatāpui, and intersex trans people. GMA support transgender people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds. GMA is a human rights based organisation, operating on population health frameworks. Everything they do is an interactive process of listening to their communities, and responding to needs. Most of what GMA do relates to three main categories, which are information, advocacy, and support.
OutLine Aotearoa OutLine Aotearoa is at risk of closing permanently and they need our support! Founded in 1975, OutLine Aotearoa is an all-ages Rainbow mental health organisation that provides support throughout Aotearoa to Takatāpui, MVPFAFF+ and Rainbow communities, their friends, whānau, and those questioning.
If you have any questions or comments please contact me using the contact form on this website - Click Here
Bartenders says, Why the long face?
In this webinar/workshop we'll look at the elements and structures of jokes to see how they might be deployed in fiction and other imaginative writing. This isn’t a class on how to write funny. Instead, we'll be looking ‘under the hood’ of jokes to see how they elicit a spontaneous and physical response in order to see if we might use these tools to make our fiction more evocative and affecting. The workshop will consist of close-reading and reflective exercises.
I've been extremely grateful to be one of the Ursula Bethell residents at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha in Ōtautahi for the last five months. Through this I've been able to think, write and research comedy, jokes, clowning and the weaponisation of humour. This webinar workshop is a way of sharing some of the things I've been thinking about during the residency.
The workshop will be recorded and a link sent to all registered people - so if you can't make the time you can watch the recording.
Please register - so I can send you the link for the workshop and recording.
Register here
This is a workshop based on one I facilitated at Word Christchurch Festival 2023
I'm offering this workshop free of charge.
I've listed some organisations below whose work means a lot to me. I'd love it if you were able to spend a bit of time reading about the work these organisations do and the information they share. There are some amazing resources on their websites. Also, if you are able and it won't cause financial stress, please consider giving a donation or koha to one of these organisations.
People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) is a prison abolitionist organisation working for a fairer, safer, and more just Aotearoa. Since PAPA's formation in 2015 as a group concerned about the treatment of transgender people in prisons, they've become a mass-based organisation that works with different communities to address the worst problems of the criminal justice system, and to build a better one.
Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero is a charitable trust that delivers programmes that promote and foster Māori literature and its place in the literature of the nation. Since 2000, the Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero has been fostering new and emerging Māori writers, transforming the literary landscape of Aotearoa, nurturing Māori voices, with a story to tell.
Gender Minorities Aotearoa (GMA) is run by and for transgender people; including binary and non-binary, irawhiti takatāpui, and intersex trans people. GMA support transgender people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds. GMA is a human rights based organisation, operating on population health frameworks. Everything they do is an interactive process of listening to their communities, and responding to needs. Most of what GMA do relates to three main categories, which are information, advocacy, and support.
OutLine Aotearoa OutLine Aotearoa is at risk of closing permanently and they need our support! Founded in 1975, OutLine Aotearoa is an all-ages Rainbow mental health organisation that provides support throughout Aotearoa to Takatāpui, MVPFAFF+ and Rainbow communities, their friends, whānau, and those questioning.
If you have any questions or comments please contact me using the contact form on this website - Click Here