How To Write Memoir and Still Get Invited to Thanksgiving

212 East 33rd Street,Garden City ID 83714

10 July, 2021

Description

Popular teacher and memoirist Faith Adiele will lead you through the key elements of effective memoir. Have you been wanting to turn your personal experiences into memoir? Document this historic moment in personal essay? Tell the story of your family or community? With her signature irreverent wit, popular teacher and memoirist Faith Adiele will lead you through the key elements of effective memoir. She will share strategies for diving deep into memory to unearth your unique stories, bringing people and places to life, and capturing the larger cultural and historical themes that touch others. We will also review the potential risks and rewards of telling family secrets and truths. The session will consist of craft lectures, short readings, writing exercises, and small group sharing, as time allows. Have a notebook/writing utensil and computer/tablet/phone handy. Appropriate for anyone over the age of 17 with any level of writing experience. Faith Adiele is an award-winning writer and professor originally from Eastern Washington, who speaks, teaches, performs and mentors around the globe. Her two memoirs are The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems and Meeting Faith: The Thai Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun, an account of ordaining as Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award. Her media credits include two episodes of recent HBO-Max series A World of Calm, Sleep Stories for the Calm app and the PBS documentary My Journey Home, about finding her father and siblings in Nigeria. Artists need shelter. Artists need space. Artists need time. Surel's Place, a non-profit artist in residency program, offers artists the gift of all three. Located in Garden City, Idaho, and nestled steps from the Boise River, this modern live-work space is in the heart of the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District. Here you will find a community that values you and the art you make.