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SUMMARY:Virtual Poets' Retreat: Healing Ourselves and the Planet
DESCRIPTION:Join us February 25-27\, 2022 on Zoom for a Poets’ Retreat focussed on healing ourselves and the planet. \nExplore relationships between your writing practice and climate change in these gentle\, restorative\, and inspiring workshops with like-minded poets using their craft to promote change and right relationships between humans and the rest of Nature. Three workshops\, an exclusive poetry reading\, peer writing groups\, discussion with a publisher\, Qigong\, and an opportunity to read in the Authors and Artists festival. 10+ hours of programming: $225 CAD. Payment plans and one competitive\, needs-based scholarship for a BIPOC poet available. Workshops: Artistic Contemplative Practice for EcoJustice (additionally\, Qigong) by JuPong Lin\, performance poet and faculty at Goddard Collage; Tender Witness: Climate Grieving for Poets by Dina Stander\, end of life navigator and poet; Moon Botany by performance artist\, writer\, and disability culture activist  Petra Kuppers. All workshop providers are BIPOC\, as are all headline speakers in the co-occurring Authors and Artists online festival\, whose theme is Writing the Land\, tied to the WTL project (www.writingtheland.org). \nFor more on the Retreat: https://www.nature-culture.net/2022-poet-retreat \nFor more on the festival\, whose headline speakers include poet Ross Gay\, John Francis\, Dina Gilio-Whitaker\, Rahawa Haile and Latria Graham: https://www.nature-culture.net/authors-artists-festival
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LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Creating a Universe with Words
DESCRIPTION:Two Saturdays: February 19 and 26\, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. \nAll are welcome. \nLimited to 12 participants \nI love what Albert Einstein once said about imagination. He said: “Imagination is intelligence having fun.” And that is what this workshop is indeed intended to be: a fast paced\, hands-on workshop based on a series of writing exercises where we will find and surpass the limits that contain our everyday writing universe. We will\, of course\, develop our imagination outside the box and have creative fun. \nSessions will be tailored to meet the needs and interests of the group. They will be combined with lectures to help you gain new insight to construct and complete your personal writing project. We’ll explore ways to reinforce the structure of your existing work\, gain deeper understanding of characters\, fix plot holes\, and tie up storylines. We’ll also work on developing another skill invaluable to any writer: the ability to pinpoint what might not be working—and cut or rework if need be. This workshop is designed to help you stay motivated and focused through the difficult parts of writing and aims to give you the tools to enjoy your writing process (again\, if you fear you are not enjoying it anymore).  The time will be split between discussing technique in published models\, and reading and discussing our own creations. \nCreating a Universe with Words will be a two-session workshop and is intended for experienced and beginner writers alike. You’ll need paper\, pencils and—most importantly—an eraser! We will keep things interactive\, giving short presentations to the group. \n  \nYou will receive links to the texts we will be using as models. Reading them before our start date is strongly recommended.  \n  \nAntolina Ortiz Moore describes herself as a citizen of the world. She was born in Mexico City in 1971. She studied at the French Licée in Mexico City and studied Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana.  \nShe migrated to Canada in 2000\, then returned to México in 2009\, where she lived in the town of Coatepec. She founded an unschooling project and a non-profit organization that promoted ecological and cultural awareness without barriers. She coordinated the planting of over 11\,000 trees in a mist forest area. In 2017\, due to mounting violence in the area\, she decided to move back to Montreal. \nAntolina´s last novel\, Seda araña\, won the First Mexican Woman´s Short Novel Competition in Mexico (2019)\, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Romulo Gallegos Literary prize in Venezuela (2020) and the Nadal Literary Competition in Spain (one of the most important in Spanish Literature). Her first and second novels received the José Eufemio Lora y Lora & Juan Carlos Onetti international award (in Peru\, 2010). Her first published book was her social work thesis at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico\, with a prologue by Elena Poniatowska; it sold over fifty thousand copies. \nWeb page: https://antolinaortizmoore.com \nInstagram: oantolina \nTwitter: @antolina_ortiz \nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/antolina.ortiz/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/creating-a-universe-with-words/2022-02-26/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:2022 Authors and Artists Festival
DESCRIPTION:Free and Online: Authors and Artists festival February 26-27\, 2022 . Headline speakers: Ross Gay\, John Francis\, Jillian Hishaw\, Dina Gilio-Whitaker. Rahawa Hailie & Latria Graham. All BIPOC speakers on the topic of Writing the Land. Poets from the Writing the Land project include Alice B. Fogel\, Angela Vasquez\, CMarie Fuhrman\, Paul Richmond\, JuPong Lin\, Maiah Merino\, Katherine Hagopian Berry\, and Candace Curran. Please join us!
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LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Performance
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