Transmissions from the Ancestors: A Generative Writing Workshop with Anahit Cass
Who: Anahit Cass with Midwest Writing Center
What: Writing Workshop
When: Saturday, April 12, 11am-1pm
Where: Online via the Midwest Writing Center
Cost: $20 for MWC members / $30 nonmembers – register via the PayPal link below
The Midwest Writing Center welcomes photographer, writer, performer, and teacher Anahit Cass to teach a new workshop called Transmissions From The Ancestors.
About the workshop:
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.
Participants should bring a photo of a family or cultural ancestor to work with. Ancestors can be relatives, friends, or individuals from your culture or community: anyone who has influenced or inspired you.
You’ll have the opportunity to explore ancestral wisdom, connect to the past, and imagine the future.
This is a no pressure environment, open to anyone with any relationship to writing. Cost for MWC members is $20, and $30 nonmembers – register via the PayPal link below or call 309-732-7330 (you do not need a PayPal account).
Instructor Bio:
Cass is the author of Reparations of the Heart: Toward a SWANA Futurity. Her Borderlands Under Fire project, including the books Borderlands Under Fire and The New Freedom Fighters: Women and Nonviolent Resistance, was a finalist for the 2018 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Her work has been published by HyeBred Magazine, Azad Archives and antirrhinum. Her art has been shown in solo & group exhibitions including Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, the Stamelos Gallery Center University of Michigan, Elephant Room Gallery Chicago. Cass is an experienced instructor of writing, photography, and performance art at arts centers and universities in the US and abroad. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago.