SOULFOOD ONE-DAY

Memoir and Personal Essay Writing

A dynamic process of creative expression and self-integration for new and experienced writers.

This is your chance to write straight from the heart.

• Discover where memory and imagination intersect
• Learn how to re-enter your life and locate the stories that must be told
• Develop techniques for finding the heart of a story
• Shape each memory into an unforgettable tale
• Aerobicize your imagination
• Leave a legacy

In Soulfood, music, ancestor writing, photos, visualization, and the power of your senses guide you into unwittingly creating a portfolio of autobiographical writings that move the heart, engage the intelligence, and have a lasting impact on you, the author, and your audience. Students complete the workshop feeling like extended family!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Throughout history, and at an accelerating rate worldwide, people have experienced extreme levels of dislocation and disorientation from their original landscapes both cultural and geographical. Today, this diaspora continues to intensify. The majority of people, if they stop long enough to think about it, feel a tremendous longing for connection with their roots, for a sense of belonging. Soulfood Writing workshops are a way for us to honor and integrate our lives and the lives of those who brought us here. We can only hope that by providing a virtual table around which we share our stories with compassionate strangers, that we will become, not just better writers, but also more open-minded, more inclusive, more tolerant people as we enter this new millenium.

Prerequisite: None required.