Public programme LOTTO: Diary cafe
By Tiziana La Melia
DIARY CAFE
On the occasion of LOTTO, writer and artist Tiziana La Melia, will host a writing workshop in Woonhuis. Please join us for an intimate gathering shaped around the idea of the “cappuccino” as it appears in Alison Yip’s exhibition LOTTO, a point of departure for sipping, reading, writing, and thinking together. What unfolds is an accidental community: a shared space that is at once soft, spiralling, and lightly electric.
Through reading aloud, conversation, and collective writing, the session moves between openness and form, drawing from “corsetless verse” (a term coined by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven) and the structured lyricism of the canzone. Language becomes both instrument and material, something to shape, stretch, and listen to. No singing required, though the voice will guide us.
The workshop considers writing as assemblage: fragments, impressions, and fleeting images gathered and recombined. These pieces may resist clarity, leaning instead into texture, juxtaposition, and the quiet charge of what doesn’t quite resolve.
This is an open invitation to experiment, for all levels of experience. Please bring your own notebook.
RSVP is mandatory, please get your ticket below. Spots are very limited.
Drinks included in ticket price
About Tiziana La Melia
Tiziana La Melia is an artist and author born in Palermo (IT) and raised on an orchard-garden on Syilx/Okanagan territories. In her writing and art practice, La Melia gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, and iterative shapes and symbols, which move through layers of diasporic time. Selected solo and two person exhibitions include canzone, Unit 17 (2026); Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster, Or Gallery (2025); Hyper-Precious, Pilot (2025); Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster, Bad Water (2024); confessions on sparkling hill, Damien and the Love Guru (2023); St. Agatha's Stink Script and Broom Emotion, Galerie Anne Barrault (2019/2017); Innocence At Home, CSA (2015); The Eyelash and the Monochrome, Mercer Union (2014). Her latest book of poetry, titled I come from a long line of people who don’t use words, was released by Archive Books in June 2025.
