Writing With Trees: Exploring Identity & Entanglement
About the event
#UnderTheSkin is back this Fall at WSU. Our goal is to create spaces of dialogue, understanding, growth and healing. We will be gathering on Thursdays 2-4 p.m. at Mestizo Center, Cleveland Hall 121.
#UnderTheSkin is an effort to build a critical and dialogical community where we learn from one another. Collaborators from diverse ethnic backgrounds, academic perspectives, spiritual processes, activism and community work experiences will guide us through dialogues, creation, and healing. This semester we will have the opportunity to learn from Native American, Libyan, mixed race, Latina scholars. Values of social justice, spiritual activism, and equity, among others, inform our dialogues and processes.
In our first WALKSHOP we will be guided by Linda Russo.
About the workshop
In this walkshop, we will walk to a nearby leafy location and explore in our notebooks how our lives and identities are entangled with the other-than-human world (of trees, plants, & critters) all around us. In what ways has it transformed you? What are some new possibilities for transformation?
About Linda
Linda Russo’s creative and critical projects explore connections between ecology and creativity. She is the author of three books of poems, most recently Participant, winner of the Bessmilr Brigham Poets Prize, and book of lyrical essays, and teaches in the English Department at WSU. For more, see inhabitorypoetics.blogspot.com
We hope you can join us on this wonderful adventure. We’ll enjoy some wonderful homemade cakes and more! See you soon!
For further information on workshops contact:
Nancy Carvajal Medina