Poetry Healing & Activism Experience

240 Westminster Street,Providence RI 02903

08 October, 2022

Description

Join What Cheer Writers Club and blackearth collective + lab for a Poetry, Healing & Activism Experience on Sat, Oct 8 at 2:30pm at Symposium Books' Roof Deck. Led by poets Justice Ameer and Kou Tukala Nyan, this workshop will include readings and discussion around healing, advocacy, and art with an invitation to create and share poetry collectively or as individuals. Attendees will generate new work, with the opportunity to polish and submit a piece for publication in a zine later this fall. About the Experience Leaders Justice Ameer is a poet and community organizer based in Providence. Xyr work explores the experience of being a Black trans woman in an apocalyptic America. Xe is a Pink Door fellow, FEM Slam Champion, and a co-writer of the theatrical production ANTHEM. Xyr work can be found on POETRY magazine, Split This Rock, The Nation, and various other publications. Kou Tukala Nyan is a multidisciplinary artist who works with creative writing, memoir, journalism, performance, and curation to tell stories. Within the past decade, she has self-published "Jesus, Adulting, People in Poetry," written for Rhode Island Monthly and Providence Media, and curated over 20 community and fundraising events for various occasions and organizations. About blackearth collective + lab blackearth collective + lab is an intergenerational BIPOC community of artists, craftspeople, designers, organizers, and educators in Providence, Rhode Island. They envision a thriving creative economy on the South Side of Providence sustained by its community members through access to media, technology, and fabrication. Informed by this vision, their mission is to facilitate intergenerational art/design/craft education and creative workforce training. Accessibility What Cheer Writers Club is actively committed to cultivating a community that values and reflects diversity, equity and inclusivity and to providing programming that is accessible to all attendees. Please let us know about any accommodations we can make to allow you to participate fully in this event. This event was made possible through a grant funded by the National Writing Project as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grantmaking program.