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Transmissions from the Ancestors: A Generative Writing Workshop with Anahit Cass

Posted on by Ryan Collins

Transmissions from the Ancestors is designed to get participants writing about their own ancestral connections and how they impact the future. Using readings, visual images, and written prompts in this 2 hour writing workshop, participants will write a short work that may be the outline for a longer essay, memoir, or story or useful in journaling about ancestral connections and their impact.

Anahit’s new book Reparations of the Heart presents a vibrant tapestry of essays; stories; poems; quotes; and detailed, often surreal images. It crosses time and borders and launches us into a future world informed by our connection to our ancestors.

This is what she wants for the people who attend her workshop.

Fleshed Out: An embodied writing & movement workshop

Posted on by Ryan Collins

This workshop aims to connect minds to bodies and encourage self-empowerment. Our bodies are our homes and in our daily lives, we are forced to separate body from mind. In this two-part, one-day workshop, we will get to know our bodies and connect our creative lives to our physical lives.

Through a holistic and empowered lens, burlesque performer Mary Quite Contrary will lead participants through one hour of burlesque movements that will connect sensuality to the day-to-day. There will be a water and snack break, following which, writer Sarah Elgatian will follow with a writing practice that uses the body as a grounding space for our physical work.

Narrating Grief Through Poetry #2 – Workshop led by Becky Nakashima-Brooke & Ryan Collins

Posted on by Ryan Collins

Following their “Narrating Through Grief” workshop in November, MWC and Illuminate Healing Studio will host a writing workshop centered on grief: writing into and through it, using sound and poetry as tools to both capture and release it in creative ways. Hosted by Becky Nakashima-Brooke and Ryan Collins, the program will feature a sound bath, brief readings and discussion, and time to write and share as a group. This workshop will feature different readings and writing prompts than the last one, FYI.

Please email Ryan Collins (mwc@mwcqc.org) to register. Cost for the workshop is “pay-what-you-can” at the door on the day of the event; if you can’t pay anything, no problem.