IPL Workshops

In addition to a vibrant event series including lectures, readings, performances, and craft talks with Indigenous artists and scholars, ARC schedules workshops offering 1:1 time and space for creative practitioners to reflect on and develop their own work.

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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").


Tanya Lukin Linklater wears glasses and a black top in a portrait

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 Awardthe Māori Literature Awardand the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year. He gave a 2hr writing workshop to IPL fellows and invited guests.