Wander & Wonder Writing Workshop with Måsi Santos
Friday, Oct 18, 2024 at 10am |Meet at ARC, Hearst Field Annex D23 - reserve a ticket to claim a space (reservations here)
The workshop, facilitated by Måsi Santos (Chamoru, Luta yan Guåhan), presents a guided excursion throughout the UC Berkeley campus that features multiple landmarks as sites of inspiration for land-based writing and artistic expression. Open to all UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty regardless of writing experience, medium, and expression; whether you're new to writing - or a seasoned writer, a poet, an essayist, a performer, a painter, etc. - this workshop is sure to provide prompts and inspiration for creative expression that is guided by the history of the land on which UC Berkeley sits and from which we all are able to thrive as artists and academics.
Zine Making Workshop with Sierra Edd
Friday Nov 15, 2024 at 10 a.m. PST | In-Person, ARC
This zine-making workshop, facilitated by Sierra Edd (Diné), features a tutorial for crafting and publishing your own zine. Open to both experienced zinesters or folks new to the medium, this workshop will also offer a background to Indigenous storytelling through zines. Sierra Edd (she / her) is a Diné writer and artist who grew up in Durango, Colorado. She is Tł’ógi, born for the Kinłichii’nii people. She is currently an Ethnic Studies doctoral student and resides in Ohlone Territory. Her research examines the political significance of listening, creating, and connecting through Indigenous music across various U.S. contexts. Recently, she has been collaborating and working on zine projects (“Portals of Indigenous Futurism Zine" and “Indigenous Collective Futures").
Writing Workshop with Poet Tanya Lukin Linklater
Feb 17, 2024 at 10 a.m. PST | In-Person, ARC
Poet, artist, and choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater (Sugpiaq) gave a 2hr writing workshop to ARC poetry and IPL fellows, 2023 poetry facilitators, and invited guests. Slow Scrape, her first collection of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism, Montréal (2020) with a second edition published by Talonbooks, Vancouver (2022). Her Sugpiaq homelands, Afognak and Port Lions, are in southwestern Alaska, and she lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg aki in Ontario.
Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan
September 20, 2023 at 1 p.m. PST | Online
Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi and Kāi Tahu) has won awards for his poetry, editing, and writing for children, including the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai’i, the Montana New Zealand Book Award, the Māori Literature Award, and the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year. He gave a 2hr writing workshop to IPL fellows and invited guests.