MY NEW YORK CITY
A Poetry Workshop
Of Self & Memory
Through Your City
With Poet SM Gray
Parachute Literary Arts in partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library is offering MY NEW YORK CITY, a series of six free online creative writing workshops this summer! You may join for one or all of the workshops
. Open to all experience levels!
Dates: Saturdays from August 1 - August 15
(8/01, 8/08, 8/15)
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Here are the registration links:
Registration is limited to 12 participants.
Once you register, you will receive a link to the event.
Note: You must register for each of the six sessions separately.
This series is offered with Closed Captioning and recommended for adults and teens.
Participants will be invited to share their writing by email to parachutefestival@gmail.com and to post on Parachute Literary Art’s Twitter or Facebook, with the hashtag #MyNewYorkCity.
The workshop will culminate in a digital and limited-edition print anthology of participants' works designed and printed by artist and printer,
Sarah Nicholls
!
My New York City Course Description:
What does it mean to really "know" a neighborhood, city, or street? What do you know that others don't? Poetry and prose about NYC will be introduced for inspiration, exploring themes such as gentrification, neighborhoods and "vanishing" NYC. Writing prompts will be given to encourage drawing out hidden or lesser seen stories, and participants may go out into their neighborhoods to write about and get inspired by nearby locations. Participants’ new writings will be shared weekly with classmates and instructor for feedback.
Stay safe, fight the power, wear a mask, and be kind to one another.
We can't wait to see your New York City!
xo Parachute
SM Gray is a poet/filmmaker/photographer and author of seven poetry collections, most recently, Words Are What You Get/You Do It For Real (above ground press, 2019). A recent “poem-film”, 63 Acres: Dear Danny Lyon, about the disappeared lower-Manhattan "63 acres" per legendary photographer Lyon that were demolished with no public outcry in the 1960s, screened internationally, including at Antimatter, Engauge, Cadence, and Mono No Aware film festivals.
Parachute Literary Arts is a community arts non-profit in Coney Island founded by poet Amanda Deutch in 2009 and incorporated in 2018. We celebrate and honor Coney Island’s literary history and presence through site-specific events, festivals, writing workshops, and poetry libraries. We believe in the arts as a catalyst for empowerment and change. Visit our website at:
www.ParachuteArts.org
. Follow us on twitter
@ParachuteArts
