Misunderstood: Inverting the Workshop Model

When:
Saturday, Jun 17, 2017 3:00p -
5:00p

Where:
Arts at the Armory
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA 02143

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art, LGBT, Lectures & Conferences, Performing Arts

Event website:
https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/misunderstood-inverting-the-workshop-model/

Has your writing about POC, LGBTQ, or immigrant issues been misunderstood in the workshop? Have you been asked to make your narrator explain something cultural to readers that they would never (have to) explain within their own community? Part workshop and part story share, participants are invited to bring excerpts of their poems, essays, stories, anecdotes, and oral histories that have been—or that participants fear will be—misread, misinterpreted, or outright rejected due to cultural differences between the author/teller and the reader/recipient of these stories.


In this story share, the owner of the story will lead their own “workshop” by sharing their work and intentions, helping listeners locate where past misunderstandings might have taken place. Through this exchange of stories and ideas, we will help validate the storytellers' marginalized stories, while teaching listeners/ readers to better interpret stories with which they are less familiar.

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