2011 Embodying Our Words
Updated February 17, 2011.
City Pulse article 2/16/11 – “HerStories explores ‘Embodying Our Words’: Free two-day seminar looks at the idea of embodied writing” by Alyssa Gienapp.
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PRESS RELEASES (2)
February 2011
Free Writing Program in Greater Lansing
Lansing, Michigan – February 7, 2010. Embodying Our Words is a free community-based writing program taking place in the Greater Lansing Area on February 18 and 19. The program is the 2011 kick-off event for The HerStories Project, which celebrates stories about women. The theme of embodied writing draws upon life stories of gender expression, cultural survival, healing from violence, dis/abilities, spiritual activism, and more. Sessions take place on February 18 at Michigan State University and on February 19 at the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing. Sponsors include WCGL, the Center for Poetry (RCAH), and the LGBT Resource Center (MSU). The schedule and registration are available online http://deyofthephoenix.com/herstories. Inquiries are welcome by email herstories.project @ gmail.com or phone (517) 374-6474.
Embodying Our Words explores writing through dialogue, workshops, and performance. Diverse sessions engage the writing process with the visual arts, palm reading, and physical expression. The program is organized and facilitated by writers Melissa Dey Hasbrook (Lansing, MI) and Dawn Comer (Defiance, OH). Guests include Lauren Spencer, Program Coordinator of the MSU LGBT Resource Center, and Professor Mary Catherine Harper of Defiance College (OH). Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s essay “now let us shift . . . the path of conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts” inspired the program and is available online as well as at several Lansing-area locations, which are listed at http://deyofthephoenix.com/herstories.
Melissa Dey Hasbrook
herstories.project @ gmail.com
(517) 374-6474
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January 2011
HerStories Kick-Off February 2011
Lansing, Michigan – January 22, 2011. The HerStories Project kicks off events for 2011 with Embodying Our Words on February 18 and 19 in the Greater Lansing Area. This free program offers dialogue, workshops, and performance around the theme of embodied writing. Sessions take place February 18 at the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (Michigan State University) and February 19 at the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing. The program is organized by writers Melissa Dey Hasbrook (Lansing, MI) and Dawn Comer (Defiance, OH). Sponsors include the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing, the Center for Poetry (RCAH), and the LGBT Resource Center (MSU). Program details, updates, and registration are ongoing at http://deyofthephoenix.com/herstories. Inquiries are welcome by email herstories.project @ gmail.com or phone (517) 374-6474.
Embodied writing draws upon life stories of gender expression, cultural survival, healing from violence, dis/abilities, spiritual activism, and more. This theme is explored in the essay of the late Gloria E. Anzaldúa titled “now let us shift . . . the path of conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts”, which is an inspiration for Embodying Our Words. Anzaldúa writes, “If el conocimiento that body is both spirit and matter intertwined is the solution [to the Cartesian split], it’s one difficult to live out, requiring that this knowledge be lived daily in embodied ways. Only then may the split be healed.” From this starting point, the program explores embodied writing as a creative process spanning one’s inner life and community spaces. Lansing-area locations for the essay are available online http://deyofthephoenix.com/herstories.
Melissa Dey Hasbrook
herstories.project @ gmail.com
(517) 374-6474
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