By Aambr Newsome & Misha Duree | Graphics by Bruna BSA
Making a Mixtape for the Dead & Gone: A Community grief circle & creative writing workshop for people who have lost a parent, child, or sibling. This workshop is part Nkeiruka Oruche’s ‘Obi gbawara’m//My Heart Shattered or What happens after I die?’ (OGB) researching and documenting traditions of death and grief in Igbo culture, and the African diaspora.
Co-facilitated by Nkeiruka and collaborator Micheal French this interactive workshop will explore our personal connections with death and using creativity as a tool to support our grief and commemoration. The session will feature an introduction/context about this project, participants sharing their personal experiences, and creative writing sessions inspired by the project.
Your Life, Your Story is an eight-hour intensive workshop 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.
