Afro Urban Society’s Sufferhead Academy presents
Your Life, Your Story: Writing Intensive for People of African Descent [Online] with Micheal French
Saturday Sep 13 10a-3p & Sunday Sep 14 10a-1p (Pacific Time)
Online (via Zoom)
Limited to 12 Spots for the Workshop
Sliding Scale $300 to $1500 (for scholarships & accessibility email info@afrourbansociety.com)
YOUR LIFE, YOUR STORY - 8-HOUR Writing Intensive Workshop
Exploring your life is where so many great stories begin. Your Life, Your Story is an eight-hour intensive where you will learn how to identify the stories behind your experiences, and transform them into work that’s beautiful, meaningful, and uniquely yours. In a supportive, non-judgmental environment, utilizing guided prompts that will help you generate new ideas for your writing in any genre, this class will give you the strategies to blend fact with fiction, yet remain truthful, the tools to create sensory scenes and vivid characters, and the key to dynamic dialogue, and urgent, compelling storytelling. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Christina Henriquez, Toni Morrison, and James McBride are just a few of the writers we’ll use as inspiration. By the end of eight hours, you’ll take home the structure for a short story or personal essay, the seeds to develop several more writing ideas, and a stronger connection to your creative instincts. Only one person can live your life, only one person can write your stories. Why deprive the world of who you are!
About Michael French
MICHAEL FRENCH is a director, writer, actor, and inventor of brilliant things, originally from London, England. He has written and directed the Ovation award winning play ‘The Rainy Season,’ collaborated with Tiger Lion Arts on the much acclaimed ‘The Buddha Prince,’ and directed over thirty-five plays in London, New York, and the Bay Area of San Francisco. Michael is a resident director for Playground, a resident artist for Oakland Theatre Project, and the artist development coach for Afro Urban Society. He is currently writing his first collection of short stories entitled ‘Babble.’
Afro Urban Society/Sufferhead Academy
Afro Urban Society is a creative community of brilliant artists and culture workers dedicated to celebrating the unique expressions of Urban Africans through performance and community activism. Through original and curated arts & event production, popular arts education and community engagement we create spaces for diverse African stories. Our project, Sufferhead Academy is a series of creative and artistic industry workshops for the culture.