Seize the Pen: Creative writing workshop-learning skills to produce journals, memory books & more

Seize the Pen & Write Yourself into History
Exploring the impact of personal history and family life on the unique development of the individual

 

Where: Fulford United Methodist Church
1900 NE 164th Street, NMB, 33162
305.945.3505
When: Saturday, October 22, 2011
12 - 4pm. Fellowship Hall

Presenter: Dr. Marva McClean

Join us in this creative writing workshop and acquire the skills to produce empowering products such as journals, family trees, memory books, short stories and poetry.

Session One: Tell Your Story in Your Own Words
• Explore creative ways to harvest and share the gifts you carry within
• Explore crossing borders and rewrite notions of identity, friendship, family & success

Session Two: My Other Selves
• Use photos and personal objects as cues to access memories & lift up your voice
• Interrogate creative ways to express your political, ethnic & sexual self
• Explore the spiritual dimensions of identity & self expression

What are the selves that you are nurturing, or perhaps ignoring? How can you sustain and energize your multiple selves so that you stay true to you?

Join us and Write to Discover answers to these liberating questions.

Dr. Marva McClean is an author who specializes in issues of genealogy, memory keeping and the art of self-expression.

 

For questions contact Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator
686 NE 56 St.
Miami, FL 33137
www.diasporavibevirtualgallery.net
rgw@diasporavibe.net
 786.536.7801; 954.551.7275

Please visit the Diaspora Vibe Virtual Gallery for more information and to reserve your seat via PayPal or DonateNow buttons on the page.

Please share the workshop with other friends and colleagues. If you are unable to attend, please offer support by contributing and/or sponsoring a friend, especially a young[er] lady.

We accept: All credit cards, Pay Pal, DonateNow, checks and cash.

This Saturday, September 26: Seize the Pen: A Writing Workshop for Women with Dr. Marva McClean

Seize the Pen & Explore the Artist Within
A Workshop of Empowerment for Women
Where: Diaspora Vibe Gallery
When: Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, 12-3pm
Presenter: Dr. Marva McClean

A participative workshop where we come together, engaging in diverse writing stages, exploring the impact of history and family life on the unique development of ourselves. Participants will produce empowering products such as journals, essays, memory books, poetry, and photo journals.

Session One – Telling Our Stories in Our Own Words

• Write to discover themselves & investigate their capacity, expressing
their inner selves in diverse ways, sharing anguish and joy that are indelible parts of life’s journey

• Explore creative/artistic ways to share and harvest the gifts we carry

• Explore crossing borders, challenging colonial and post colonial conceptions of who we are, re-writing notions of friendship, power and success

Session Two - My Other Selves
Use photos and personal objects as cues, exploring multiple positions women assume and occupy as citizens in a community - mother, daughter, partner, parent, friend, grandmother, godmother, aunt. We will seek answers to the questions: What are the selves we nurture, or ignore? How do we sustain and energize our multiple selves, staying true to ourselves?

• Investigate photos as voice
• Interrogate creative ways of disrupting censorship and taboos relating
to our gender and religious, political, ethnic and sexual selves
• Investigate the spiritual dimensions of self expression and identity

REGISTER by contacting Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator
3938 North Miami Avenue,
Miami, FL 33127
www.diasporavibe.net
ph 305-573-4046

Suggested contribution: $50 per participant as a fundraiser for Diaspora Vibe Gallery, which has, and continues playing an integral role in the development of our arts community, providing a place of artistic expression and empowerment for all.

Please share the workshop with other friends and colleagues. If you are unable to attend, please offer support by contributing and/or sponsoring a friend, especially a young [er] lady.

(credit cards, pay pal, checks and cash accepted)