Please note that the first session of Scrapyard has been postponed. You can read about Scrapyard below, and join the interest list here.
Scrapyard is using what has already been started. It’s a response guided by creative writing and mark making. Scrapyard is a space to share, process and be witnessed. We are curious about how writing and art making speak to one another, work together, and inform one another. Let’s explore how we can discover new possibilities as writers and artists when we explore the two forms in tandem. Scrapyard is a collaboration between Heather Saluti of Fioritura Expressive Arts Therapy and Meg Max, founder of Writers in Bloom. You can learn more about Meg and Heather below.
Registration for Scrapyard is offered monthly, with the theme changing each month. Our first theme will be Leftovers.
To be notified when Scrapyard is open for registration, please join the interest list.
Scrapyard is offered on a sliding scale from $100-$150.
Refunds are not available, unless the event is canceled by the organizers, or the minimum number of registrants for the event to run is not met. However, if you've registered in good faith and circumstances have arisen that make it truly impossible for you to attend, please reach out. If we can fill your spot from our waitlist, we will do so. Otherwise, your request will be reviewed and a refund may be offered on a case by case basis.
Meg Max is a neurodivergent, mentally ill writer, artist and mother. She’s more way more fun than that first sentence makes her sound. Her fiction has been published online and in print throughout Canada and the US, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. For fun, she takes long walks where she gathers treasures to make ink, tiny books and houses out of found or recycled materials.
Meg is the founder of Writers in Bloom, a community celebrating and centring neurodivergent writers and artists.
Heather Saluti is an AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, expressive arts therapist and poet of Italian and Ukrainian descent. Heather operates fioritura expressive arts, a community focused practice that predominantly supports other queer, trans, and neurodivergent humans. They are passionate about supporting others in accessing imagination and building connection with creativity as a form of care. Their written work can be found in Canthius, CV2, Room Magazine and others. They reside on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh land with their spouse and three cats Burt, Etta, and Babydoll.