***UPDATE: This workshop will now take place online via Zoom***
Workshop Length: 2 hours
Capacity: 15
Ticket Price: By Donation. Sign-up required.
Age Recommendation: 16+
NOTE: Bring a photo, pen, and paper with you!
**No previous experience necessary
Monsoon Festival's community-based development workshops are excellent opportunities to immerse yourself into the artistic process. Learn valuable skills from accomplished industry professionals in areas including (but not limited to) script analysis, playwriting, acting, and music composition. Our workshops are a vital component of the Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts.
Join this year's community writing workshop with Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal. No prior writing experience is necessary but you do need to bring a photo—old or recent—that holds meaning for you, whether it's of yourself, your family, a childhood home, or cherished land.
In this session, we'll explore our histories through our photos. Preeti will take you through guided exercises and offer special tips to help you find your flow and delve into the details of your photos, uncovering stories that may have been forgotten or overlooked. Together, we'll step into what we know and what remains a mystery, using our senses, memories, and curiosity to deepen our understanding.
Join us in building a community of storytellers and the beginnings of a community archive as we discover how photos can illuminate and preserve our personal and shared histories.
Reminders:
Bring a photo, pen and paper with you!
Please do not attend if you have cold and/or covid symptoms (cough, runny nose, sore throat, etc.) or have been recently exposed to someone with covid.
This is a reduced scent environment. Please do not wear scented products (colognes, perfumes, spray on/scented deodorants and hair products or clothes that have been sprayed with such products in recent days). The facilitator has a scent sensitivity and will not be able to do her job if folks show up heavily scented. Please note that if you regularly wear scents, you probably won't notice how intense they are. Clothes that were sprayed in the recent and even distant past will still have scents on them. Here are a few resources that might be helpful to understanding how to reduce your scents:
If you still mask, wonderful! We will try to keep windows and doors open for air flow as well.
