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Catherine Kineavy is facilitating 4 community workshops (online on Zoom) that are free to the general public. The workshops are thoughtfully planned to create a space on a digital platform where meaningful connections are made between participants. Workshops will be held on the following Saturdays from 10am-12pm: March 6: Cartography of a Life: Poetry as Storytelling March 20: Poetry of Witness, Resilience, and Social Justice April 10: The People’s Poetry: Cultivating Civic Imagination in a Democracy April 24: Poetry of Space, Poetry of Place: Exploring Home and the Environment Scroll down for workshop descriptions. |
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Image: Green Chameleon
March 6: Cartography of a Life: Poetry as Storytelling
Using poetry as a point of origin and entry, we will collectively go on a journey exploring aspects of our individual and collective stories. We will read poetry and write it, locating ourselves and our stories inside history. The hope is that we will connect on this journey with each other through our shared humanity. Ultimately it will be a journey of self-discovery. Participants will become cartographers of their own life by mapping their journey through poetic stories based on history, memory, myth, and imagination.
Using poetry as a point of origin and entry, we will collectively go on a journey exploring aspects of our individual and collective stories. We will read poetry and write it, locating ourselves and our stories inside history. The hope is that we will connect on this journey with each other through our shared humanity. Ultimately it will be a journey of self-discovery. Participants will become cartographers of their own life by mapping their journey through poetic stories based on history, memory, myth, and imagination.
Image: David Klein
March 20: Poetry of Witness, Resilience, and Social Justice
Being witness is part of the poetic tradition (and the artistic tradition), whether it is to one’s own life, or to some aspect of community life, or history; in this workshop we will all be poets of witness. We will also explore the meaning of the word “resilience” through our lived experiences, and we will express it through poetry. Digging into the body of hidden or forgotten stories in our lives, we will bring them to light with perseverance and purpose. Social justice will be the foundation of this workshop, we will resist injustice together through poetry and practice in our workshop.
Being witness is part of the poetic tradition (and the artistic tradition), whether it is to one’s own life, or to some aspect of community life, or history; in this workshop we will all be poets of witness. We will also explore the meaning of the word “resilience” through our lived experiences, and we will express it through poetry. Digging into the body of hidden or forgotten stories in our lives, we will bring them to light with perseverance and purpose. Social justice will be the foundation of this workshop, we will resist injustice together through poetry and practice in our workshop.
Image: Dayne Topkin
April 10: The People’s Poetry: Cultivating Civic Imagination in a Democracy
Using the art and language of poetry in this workshop, we will explore how we can cultivate civic imagination, so that we can reimagine a better world and a true democracy in America - together. We will approach and renew the language of politics and the practice of public policy through the language of poetry. Poets can be the bridge to a true democracy. Let us together rethink the basic infrastructure of many of the systems that impact our lives. People created these systems, and as poets and people, we can reimagine these systems, and begin to change them.
Using the art and language of poetry in this workshop, we will explore how we can cultivate civic imagination, so that we can reimagine a better world and a true democracy in America - together. We will approach and renew the language of politics and the practice of public policy through the language of poetry. Poets can be the bridge to a true democracy. Let us together rethink the basic infrastructure of many of the systems that impact our lives. People created these systems, and as poets and people, we can reimagine these systems, and begin to change them.
Image: Jordan Cormack
April 24: Poetry of Space, Poetry of Place: Exploring Home and the Environment
We are continuing to experience a worldwide pandemic – a seemingly once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, perhaps? – that has sheltered some of us, in place, but has upended most of us in some way. Our sense of space and place has been complicated more than ever. As we have quarantined, our memories have shifted, our minds have reflected, and many have experienced tremendous loss. The natural world has also experienced trauma. In this workshop we will dig into what has been uprooted for us in the last year, as the world shifted on its axis. This workshop is an invitation to create a sacred space for honoring our collective lives and centering hope, so that we will move forward with generosity and grace.
We are continuing to experience a worldwide pandemic – a seemingly once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, perhaps? – that has sheltered some of us, in place, but has upended most of us in some way. Our sense of space and place has been complicated more than ever. As we have quarantined, our memories have shifted, our minds have reflected, and many have experienced tremendous loss. The natural world has also experienced trauma. In this workshop we will dig into what has been uprooted for us in the last year, as the world shifted on its axis. This workshop is an invitation to create a sacred space for honoring our collective lives and centering hope, so that we will move forward with generosity and grace.
This project is partially funded by the California Arts Council's Artists in Communities program.
