Creative Inspiration Workshop: Using Sensory Experiences to Unlock your Creative Writing Potential
- Date
- 11 Jun 2026 · 2:00PM - 4:30PM
- Price
- £40 (10 places)
- Venue
- Chitra Collection, London
- Programme type
- Workshops
How can sensory experiences help you to write more creatively? What reflections and ideas can be promoted and unlocked through taste and touch?
Writing about your creative practice can be challenging but is an important part of sharing your work and ideas. Join this workshop to discover new approaches to writing in an imaginative and engaging way. At the Chitra Collection guided by writer and The Open University Lecturer, Dr. Lania Knight, you will be invited to take part in a multi-sensory experience combining creative writing, tea-tasting and an object handling session with historic teawares.
The workshop will begin with a curator-led tour of Chitra’s extraordinary collection of tea-related objects by assistant curator Grace Benham and a tasting of Newby Teas led by tea sommelier, Michael Butler. Following this, there will be a chance to handle and write about the items from the collection. You will be invited to explore connections and synergies between creative writing and the sensory experiences of taste, smell, touch, sight and memory. Participants will take home ideas that they can apply to writing about their own practice.
This event is suitable for any creative practitioner interested to explore how they can write more creatively.
Image: Teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug, silver, enamels, wood and lead, Mitsuyuki, Japan, Meiji Period, late 19th century. Courtesy Chitra Collection.
FAQs:
Drawing and writing materials – a notebook and pencils (as you will be handling collection objects, it is not possible to use pens for drawing or taking notes)
Chitra Collection, London
Unfortunately, there is no wheelchair access at the entrance of the Chitra Collection.
If you are a wheelchair user and would like to attend, please call 020 7566 7650 or email boxoffice@goldsmiths-centre.org and we will try to accommodate you in any way we can.
The Chitra Collection is an extraordinary private museum of historic teawares. In 2011 Nirmal Sethia, philanthropist and Chairman of the luxury tea company, Newby Teas, set himself the task of acquiring the world’s greatest collection of teawares to record and preserve tea cultures of the past.
Newby London is an international, luxury tea brand that was founded in London at the turn of the millennium with a clear mission - to reintroduce quality tea and revive the world’s love for it.
Who is Dr. Lania Knight
Dr Lania Knight lectures in Creative Writing at The Open University, and her research interests include creativity and neurodivergence. Knight writes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and she is currently working on a neurodivergent-friendly, sensory-oriented creative handbook. Originally from New Orleans, she now lives in Cumbria. Read more about her at www.profiles.open.ac.uk/lania-knight.
