PAWA is proud to co-sponsor this free and important writing workshop.
POLITICAL CONTENT & ENGAGEMENT
in story, memoir, and poetry
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five FREE writing workshops
participants’ reading gala
“i am ND” anthology
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DATES | Oct. 21, 2012 at 2pm–4pm
and every other Sunday onwards
(11/04, 11/18, 12/02, 12/16)
LOCATION | Mills College
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
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instructor melissa r. sipin and hosted by
ANAKBAYAN East Bay
TAYO Literary Magazine
Philippine American Writers & Artists
Mills College
“Every colonized people—in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality—finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards.”
— Frantz Fanon
This political content & engagement workshop invites writers to shape their memoir, poetry, prose, or performance work with an emphasis on impacting perceptions, be thy political, personal, social, literary, or cultural. We exchange our writing and develop voice and authority while working on techniques to elevate the richness and toughness of our voice. We read and analyze authors to observe how they effectively move the reader, affect perception, and perhaps opinion. Class discussions focus how our work affects how we are perceived and how the events of the world are understood. The elements of each genre are addressed as well.
amplify your writing
cultivate your craft
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Rashaan Alexis Meneses 