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Discover
where memory and imagination intersect
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Learn how to re-enter your life and locate the stories
that must be told
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Develop techniques for finding the heart of a story
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Shape
each memory into an unforgettable tale
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Aerobicize
your imagination
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Leave a legacy
In
Soulfood, music, ancestor writing, photos, visualization, and the
power of your senses guide you into unwittingly creating a portfolio
of autobiographical writings that move the heart, engage the intelligence,
and have a lasting impact on you, the author, and your audience.
Students complete the workshop feeling like extended family!
This
class culminates with a soulfood pot-luck celebration and intimate
reading of your work.
| Definition
of Soul food:
Soul food, a term coined in the 1960's by Afro-Americans in
the South and referring to traditional home-cooked foods such
as chitterlings, hamhocks, and collard greens, reminds all
of us, regardless of our ethnic roots, of the power of home,
of feeling connected to our culture, and of the significance
of passing down through family and friends over generations
our wisdom and our stories: the soulful expressions of our
people. |
FOOD
FOR THOUGHT: Throughout history, and at an accelerating rate
worldwide, people have experienced extreme levels of dislocation
and disorientation from their original landscapes both cultural
and geographical. Today, this diaspora continues to intensify.
The majority of people, if they stop long enough to think about
it, feel a tremendous longing for connection with their roots,
for a sense of belonging. Soulfood Writing workshops are a way
for us to honor and integrate our lives and the lives of those
who brought us here. We can only hope that by providing a virtual
table around which we share our stories with compassionate strangers,
that we will become, not just better writers, but also more open-minded,
more inclusive, more tolerant people as we begin this next millenium.
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Prerequisites: No
previous writing experience is necessary.
SPRING SESSION
MAY 18, 2013
Saturday,
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
| Title: |
Soulfood
Memoir Writing:
One-day |
| Fee: |
$95 |
| Deposit: |
$50 |
| Time |
9:30AM
- 5:30 PM |
| Location: |
Greenhouse
of the Imagination,
San Francisco |
EACH
WORKSHOP BRINGS TOGETHER A
COMMUNITY OF 8-12 STUDENTS
CALL
(415) 337-4369 OR Click Below to Register
|
Prerequisites: No
previous writing experience is necessary.
SUMMER SESSION
JULY 27, 2013
Saturday,
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
| Title: |
Soulfood
Memoir Writing:
One-day |
| Fee: |
$95 |
| Deposit: |
$50 |
| Time |
9:30AM
- 5:30 PM |
| Location: |
Greenhouse
of the Imagination,
San Francisco |
EACH
WORKSHOP BRINGS TOGETHER A
COMMUNITY OF 8-12 STUDENTS
CALL
(415) 337-4369 OR Click Below to Register
|
Prerequisites: No
previous writing experience is necessary.
SPRING SESSION
APRIL 24 -JUNE 12 , 2013
8 Wednesday Evenings
7-10 pm
| Title: |
Soulfood
Memoir Writing:
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| Fee: |
$385 |
| Deposit: |
$100 |
| Time |
7-10 PM |
| Location: |
Greenhouse
of the Imagination,
San Francisco |
EACH
WORKSHOP BRINGS TOGETHER A
COMMUNITY OF 8-12 STUDENTS
CALL
(415) 337-4369 OR Click Below to Register
|
