Talks and Events | Adult Workshops

Wax and Gold Writing Workshop

led by Yalew Kebede, lecturer in Amharic and Ethiopian culture at SOAS, London

The Ethiopian language has a system of double meanings called ’Wax and Gold’, which permeates Ethiopian culture at all levels. Wax is a metaphor for the outer and open meaning of a poem or song and gold is the inner hidden meaning. The wax and gold analogy comes from the craft of the goldsmith during the making of jewellery. In poetry this is an ancient art of creating more than one meaning, where the apparent wax and the hidden, gold, are intertwined in the same sentence.

In association with Cambridgeshire County Council Literature Development

BOOKING ESSENTIAL, please contact Education Department 01223 332904, or email fitzmuseum-education@lists

Linked to the exhibition Ethiopian Encounters in the Shiba Gallery

Sat 3 November 2007 | 13:30 to 16:30
Education Studio
£10 (£8 concessions) Booking essential