Come to write. Need not consider yourself a writer. Each Writer's Gym features a unique entrance into the art and practice of composition. Methods and tactics presented in each Gym exist to be constructive, so feel free to reinterpret them, flip them, or do your own thing entirely. Explore your mind, compose specific poems or stories on the spot, obliterate that writer's block, reorient your thinking process through unorthodox entrances, or edit something you’ve already written — It’s your gym!
SESSION LEADER: Fjolla Hoxha
WE DO WHAT WE CAN
Written words are never words only. They are symbols that utter reactions from occurring situations that evoke and carry emotions. Playwright, theater and performance artist Fjolla Hoxha (from Kosovo) will host a workshop during which the participants will be invited to look at language as a performative action. How do texts perform and what subtext drives the certain ways that they act? What power does written word hold in constructing, deconstructing and changing realities? Through writing prompts and discussions, if not finding answers, the goal of this workshop will be to expand on the complexity of these questions.
*7PM
*COOP GALLERY at The Packing Plant (507 Hagan St.)
*JOURNALS + PENS provided by TURNIP GREEN CREATIVE REUSE
*MASKS provided by MASK4MASK
*SNACKS provided by DOZEN BAKERY
*This event is FREE W/ DONATIONS ENCOURAGED *ALL PROCEEDS GO TO SESSION LEADER*