Healing and Protecting our Immigrant Stories through Oral Tradition: Poetry and Journaling
2-part workshop
Saturdays, April 5 and 12, 11-1 pm
Part 1: Aprenderemos técnicas para reactivar nuestros recuerdos y reconciliarnos con el pasado. Join us in learning techniques to summon our memories and make amends with the past.
Part 2: Perdiendo la pena: Técnicas para leer poesía/historias en voz alta y compartir nuestras historias inmigrantes. Feeling shy? We will explore techniques to loosen up and read poetry/ stories out loud to share our immigrant stories.
Laura Ruiz Ortega is trilingual poet, a Mexico City native. She is the Sor Juana Prize winner of 2022, member of Plumas Colectiva, Slam Quetzal, adoptee of Reno’s Spoken Views Collective and former Artes de Mexico Poetry collective. Inventario de mis Musas is her first Spanish Language poetry publication. She focuses her writing on themes of undocumented single parenting, women’s rights, raising her two beautiful Chicano boys, activism, generational healing and reconciliation with the past.
Cost: $Free. Registration is required.
Location: CWC, 210 East 400 South #8
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