Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/77253369909
Pay via Zelle with ebonygolden@bettysdaughterarts.com
DESCRIPTION
Investment (pay via Zelle to avoid fees)
Sliding Scale 200.00-450.00 for residency. 60.00 per session.
Additional Retreat Elements
Solo Creative Coaching (projects, poems, writing for performance)
Investment: 90.00 per session.
Writing the Evolution: Virtual Retreat
Radical imagination is the soul partner of root transformation. In this virtual writing residency, you will activate writing experiments that support your ability to imagine and vision the creative and artful life you want to live. Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative welcomes registration for the third Writing the Evolution virtual writing retreat. Writing the Evolution pushes the boundaries of writing to encourage participants to manifest everyday rituals that cultivate spaces of radical imagination, personal, and collective creative emancipation.
Writing the Evolution is about self-care and sustaining a personal creative practice. It's about taking yourself seriously and writing a new story for your life and your future. This is about exploration and experimentation. Writing the Evolution is about starting a new chapter and trying something new. If you have been working on your chapbook, bring your poems. If you have been working on a novel, bring a chapter. If you want to develop a personal journaling practice, there is space for you.
If you don't know why you are showing up, that's ok! Curiosity is a powerful energy. Join us for the journey. Our time together isn't about product. We won't have a show or a readying, although you will be invited to share. We won't produce a chapbook. We will support each other in developing an internal spiritual connection to voice and possibility. Be prepared to share and be open to the possibility of growing your voice and your practice.
Overview of Retreat
Facilitator: Ebony Noelle Golden, Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative (BDAC)
Workshop Length: Three 180-minute sessions. Please plan on taking all three workshops.
Workshops Offered:
Session 1: Writing as Ritual
December 14 6:30-9:30pm EST / 5:30-9:30pm CT / 3:30-6:30pm PT
What does it mean to radically imagine your future from a place of power and vision? In this session, we will engage writing prompts that explore the power of writing and discuss the ways in which writing is an integral component of liberation and wellness rituals.
Session 2: Writing on the Edge
December 16 6:30-9:30pm EST / 5:30-9:30pm CT / 3:30-6:30pm PT
What are you too afraid to write? Do you back away from writing the reality you really want to live? In this session, we will explore the relationship between risk and writing, and collectively practice what it feels like to say the hard thing in support of personal evolution.
Session 3: Voicing Vision, Voicing Victory
December 17 6:30-9:30pm EST / 5:30-9:30pm CT / 3:30-6:30pm PT
How do you lean into the transformative possibilities for your life and your community? What is the role of writing in manifesting these visions and possibilities? In this session, we will explore the power of creatively imagining and writing a vision for collective liberation.
Ideal Participants
This workshop is ideal for: artists, creatives, teachers, writers, performers, administrators, folks who want to vision.
Materials
Please choose a location with a strong internet connection, where you are able to speak and listen comfortably. You’ll need a desktop, laptop or tablet, paper journal, magazines, glue/tape, one white scentless candle, candle, pens/pencils, and headphones. All sessions require participants to be present via video and audio for the duration of every session.
Investment
Sliding Scale 200.00-450.00 for residency. 60.00 per session.
Additional Retreat Elements
Solo Creative Coaching (projects, poems, writing for performance)
Investment: 90.00 per session.
Important Dates
Registration Open: October 21, 2019
Registration Closes: December 16, 2019
Facilitator
Ebony Noelle Golden
www.bettysdaughterarts.com
Instagram: @ebonynoellegolden
Ebony Noelle Golden is an artist, scholar, and culture strategist based in Harlem, NY. Golden is a poet, director, and choreographer who stages site-specific rituals + live art productions that profoundly explore the complexities of freedom in the time of now. Ebony has been nominated for a Pushcart Poetry Prize and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Alternate Roots, Highlander Center for Research and Education, and North Carolina A&T University, to name some. Her performance work, choreography, and directing projects have been staged at Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, The Shed, The Ensemble Theatre (Houston, TX), Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Pillsbury House Theatre, Dr. Barbara Ann Teer's National Black Theatre, Judson Memorial Church, Hayti Heritage Center (Durham, NC), Harlem School of the Arts, DC Arts Center, and The Theatre at St. Claude (New Orleans), among others.
FAQs
1.How I do I pay?
Make payments via Zelle to avoid fees. Use the email address ebonygolden@bettysdaughterarts.com to make payment. Once payment is received, you will receive an email with next steps.
2. Who can participate?
Anyone! It is a strictly no hate zone. Microaggressions are treated as macro-aggressions and won't be tolerated.
3. Must I be a professional writer?
No.
4. Must I be an artist?
No.
5. Can I be enrolled in a degree-granting program?
Yes.
6. Must I submit a manuscript?
No.
7. Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
No ID requirements. The course is 18 and up.
8. Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email info@bettysdaughterarts.com
9. Is my registration/ticket transferable?
No.
10. Can I update my registration information?
No.
10. What is the refund policy?
No refunds. No exceptions.
11. The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?
No.