Artist Marian Vialade-Worch planned her "Leave the World Behind" exhibition to encompass more than the paintings on the wall and to envelop people in her art.
Workshops each Friday during January were part of that.
On Friday Alexandra poet Lisa Keene led a group to create their own works.
There were options for less confident writers, including prompts and fill-in-the-blanks.
Keene and Vialade-Worch often collaborated with one another, producing either words or an image for the other to illustrate or write about.
Working with someone else was great fun, Keene said.
"You can play in the space, be yourself," she said.
Vialade-Worch said the collaboration became more than the sum of its parts.
"It becomes another entity."
After the poems were written, there was a fanzine session.
Fanzines are small books with text and images, usually hand-made by individuals or small groups, and then copied for distribution,
Vialade-Worch said they were usually produced spontaneously and were often used for communication within marginalised communities.
At Central Stories an enthusiastic group designed, cut and pasted fanzines using images from magazines and their own poems.
Tomorrow’s workshop would be on drawing and sketching, led by Vialade-Worch.
