How can we use writing in combination with other disciplines to explore how we unleash or sit with the difficult, wild, and the unknown?
We invite writers of all ages and experiences to participate in our workshops and share their works at the final reading. Workshops are $10-$25 sliding scale with scholarships available. Advanced Registration is required and begins June 19. Scroll down to register.

A Newspaper Editorial
Is Not a Poem (Yet)
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Saturday, July 25
10:00am - 1:00pm
FreSH Santa Fe, Siler Arts District
Drawing inspiration from African-American literary forms and design, we’ll begin by looking at dominant motifs that underpin a literary aesthetic of “speaking truth to power.” We’ll then look at actual newspaper editorials with attentiveness, and through guided exercises, remake them into poems. Focusing on editorials debating police brutality, we will search for imaginative pulse in the editorial commentary on the deaths of Eric Garner, James Boyd, and Freddie Gray, to name a few.
Limited to 20

 

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington is a poet, essayist, and dramatist. He is also a professional journalist who has published in The Nation, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Progressive, N+1, The Atlantic, The Crisis (the official publication of the NAACP)  and writes a syndicated editorial column.
                                                   

Finding the Inner Daemon
Nikesha Breeze
Saturday, August 8
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Santa Fe MogaDao Institute
A soul finding workshop that uses qigong, ritual theater and the psycho-spiritual teachings of MogaDao Chinese medicine, to access the jing, in Daoist terms, the original essence of life and creativity. We will explore the intricate and often blocked pathways of qi in the body, and initiate the prayerful and honest conversation necessary with one’s self to begin to hear the inner voice, or daemon. Students will learn a basic framework for tapping into their creative potential in body, mind, spirit and soul.    Limited to 25

Nikesha Breeze has been a teacher of sacred arts, movement and physical theater for over 25 years. She is a Certified Guide and a leading international teacher of MogaDao Medical Qigong, Sacred Daoist Sexuality and Yoga.
www.nikeshabreeze.com

Object Apothecary
Cristin McKnight Sethi, Ph.D.
Sunday, August 23
10:00am - 2:00pm
Museum of International Folk Art
Object Apothecary is a creative writing workshop that uses objects as a point of departure to explore healing, injustice, fear and other moments of personal or community loss. Participants will have exclusive access to a selection of objects from the museumʼs permanent collection from which to draw inspiration. Working from the premise that objects can have therapeutic or restorative qualities, participants will take turns donning the guise of both “patient” and “objectist” to identify specific objects and write imaginative prescriptions for “ailments.”
Limited to 12
 

Cristin McKnight Sethi, Ph.D. is an art historian, curator, and writer who is passionate about textiles and folk art, and enjoys researching and responding to objects from both
academic and creative perspectives. She has worked at a variety of museums in the
United States and taught at UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, and Colorado
College.             www.cristinsethi.com 

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Writing as Medicine Reading + Share
Saturday, September 19
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Teatro Paraguas
Workshop participants are invited to read their work alongside workshop instructors
at this final celebration of Writing as Medicine workshops. 

Free and open to the public

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