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Misunderstood: Inverting the Workshop Model

June 17, 2017 | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Free

Has your writing about POC, LGBTQ, or immigrant issues been misunderstood in the workshop? Have you been asked to make your narrator explain something cultural to readers that they would never (have to) explain within their own community? Part workshop and part story share, participants are invited to bring excerpts of their poems, essays, stories, anecdotes, and oral histories that have been—or that participants fear will be—misread, misinterpreted, or outright rejected due to cultural differences between the author/teller and the reader/recipient of these stories.

In this story share, the owner of the story will lead their own “workshop” by sharing their work and intentions, helping listeners locate where past misunderstandings might have taken place. Through this exchange of stories and ideas, we will help validate the storytellers’ marginalized stories, while teaching listeners/ readers to better interpret stories with which they are less familiar.

Details

Date:
June 17, 2017
Time:
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/misunderstood-inverting-the-workshop-model/

Venue

Arts at the Armory
191 Highland Ave
Somerville, 02143 United States
Website:
http://artsatthearmory.org/

Organizer

GrubStreet
Phone:
617-695-0075
Website:
www.grubstreet.org

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.