Panelists Janice Bad Moccasin (Crow Creek Hunkpati Dakota), Marian Hassan, Kinshasha Kambui, and Billy Lor will discuss how we carry personal and collective trauma, grief and losses, including those experienced over the last few years. Panelists with share how their cultures, beliefs and community help them remain engaged in life and the transition towards...
UNFORTUNATELY THESE EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Anishinaabe poet Gerald Vizenor writes, “Survivance is an act of presence, the continuance of Native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name. Native survivance stories are a renunciation of dominance, tragedy, and victimry.” In keeping with Vizenor’s survivance, we will conceptualize nurturance as a creative exercise...
Write a novel in a month? Yes! That’s the goal of National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo, as it’s called, comes around every November, and the challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Prepare to take on the challenge by participating in this 3-session workshop. In session 2, brainstorm and outline plot ideas, create characters, and consider...
Throughout our lives, we grieve many sorrows – a world in crisis, a chronic illness, a loss of a job, a dream, a loved one – and search for the words to tell our stories and find meaning, understanding and healing. In this two-session writing workshop, we will be brave and gentle with ourselves as...
Write a novel in a month? Yes! That’s the goal of National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo, as it’s called, comes around every November, and the challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Prepare to take on the challenge by participating in this 3-session workshop. In session 2, brainstorm and outline plot ideas, create characters, and consider...
Description: Throughout our lives, we grieve many sorrows – a world in crisis, a chronic illness, a loss of a job, a dream, a loved one – and search for the words to tell our stories and find meaning, understanding and healing. In this two-session writing workshop, we will be brave and gentle with ourselves...
Join children's authors Mélina Mangal and Sarah Warren in an online conversation about why they write for children, how their biracial backgrounds influence their work, and the challenges and joys of writing fiction and nonfiction. Q&A session to follow. Register Here:https://bit.ly/w2wjan2024 Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between Black, Indigenous writers and...
Join artists, educators, activists, and mothers, elder Amoke Kubat and elder-in-the-making, Wisdom Young (Mawusi) as they share, build, and heal about their journeys as Black girls, women, and mothers in America. They will discuss how time, place, family, and historic/current events have shaped their identities and their work. They will reflect on the...
An African proverb says “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This Embracing our Roots event will focus on two couples: Arts giants Seitu Ken Jones & Soyini Vinelle Guyton with next generation couple, Anura & Rekhet Si-Asar. They will engage in a wide ranging...
Join award-winning writers Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Antonio Duke in a conversation on Blackness, history and writing for the stage. As writers, historians, playwrights, actors and scholars, Janzen and Duke believe writing is the only thing that can save us from ourselves. They will discuss their inspirations from the Black spiritual canon...
