RSVP: https://theheartofitwritingretreat.com/alumnishowcase

Theme: Inciting Joy

In Ross Gay's book Inciting Joy, he writes: "what if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things? What if joy, instead of refuge or relief from heartbreak, is what effloresces from us as we help each other carry our heartbreaks?" This month, let's explore the joy that comes from carrying each other through this world. Make a vessel for carrying, a joy kit, or a letter to and from joy.

Masks are required in the studio.

Stuck in your head? Can't find the words? Looking to build or expand on a writing practice, drawing practice or both? We believe writing and drawing can be accessible, low-barrier-to-entry art forms that can be used for personal reflection and exploration.

During this workshop, participants will be invited to combine visual and verbal vocabularies to expand the ways they process themselves and the world, bridging right brain expressiveness with left brain logic. If you prefer writing, trying out drawing can get you out of your head and into your body for a more abstract expression of your internal world. For those who prefer to draw, writing can help you organize thoughts, feelings, and experiences and make sense of them. For folks who practice neither, we will provide encouragement and basic tools to begin using these methods. If you already practice both, there will be plenty of new ways to explore your practices.

This criss-cross can promote integrated selves and expanded choices.

Accessibility:  Participants will need some method of writing and drawing, including grasping writing utensils. If participants have their own assistive technologies that help them write/draw without having to grasp writing utensils, these are welcome. We will be seated throughout the class.

Masks required during class, additional masks will be available.

Register: https://curiositystudioclass.com/classregister/writing-drawing-as-exploration

Make some accountabili-buddies and work alongside others. Bring any project you’re working on.

Come and go as you please from 9am - 1pm. You will find friends for brainstorming, chatting while you work and advice for spots you feel stuck. Bring an ongoing project that can fit in your lap or a spot at the table. Basic and limited materials will be available. Laune Bread will be open next door for any snacks!

Free! First come first serve. Advanced registration not required. Registering for this offering at the link below grants you a reminder email. https://curiositystudioclass.com/classregister/works-in-progress

Displaced, Migrated, Transformed: a QTBIPOC Writing Workshop. How do we nurture community in diaspora, in spite of and because of and beyond the trauma of displacement? Bringing together the themes of queer migration and of Black, Indigenous, People of Color’s historical and continual displacement, we will read and discuss a couple of poems by queer and trans writers of color. Then we will explore several writing prompts about our migration as individuals, as given and chosen families, as a community, and how we are transformed and how we transform ourselves in the process.

This Saturday, May 11th, QTBIPOC creatives can participate in the workshop facilitated by Pauline Moll: a poet, trauma-informed teaching artist, and creative arts therapist. Writers of any experience level are welcome, from “non-writers” to published authors. Participants are welcome to bring their personal laptops, notebooks, or other writing tools, but writing supplies will also be provided. This workshop will be an affinity space for queer and trans BIPOC.

No RSVP required. Walk in and participate! Masks are required.

https://qlibrary.org/event/queer-migration-series-3/

Theme: Oracle

Register here: https://curiositystudioclass.com/classregister/writing-drawing-as-exploration-april

Stuck in your head? Can't find the words? Looking to build or expand on a writing practice, drawing practice or both? We believe writing and drawing can be accessible, low-barrier-to-entry art forms that can be used for personal reflection and exploration.

During this workshop, participants will be invited to combine visual and verbal vocabularies to expand the ways they process themselves and the world, bridging right brain expressiveness with left brain logic. If you prefer writing, trying out drawing can get you out of your head and into your body for a more abstract expression of your internal world. For those who prefer to draw, writing can help you organize thoughts, feelings, and experiences and make sense of them. For folks who practice neither, we will provide encouragement and basic tools to begin using these methods. If you already practice both, there will be plenty of new ways to explore your practices.

This criss-cross can promote integrated selves and expanded choices.

Accessibility:  Participants will need some method of writing and drawing, including grasping writing utensils. If participants have their own assistive technologies that help them write/draw without having to grasp writing utensils, these are welcome. We will be seated throughout the class.

Masks required during class, additional masks will be available.

Registration link coming soon

The creative process is anything but simple. Yet, two simple ingredients, art and community, prove to be our greatest tools time and time again.

Since our inception, we have offered Open Studio programming at no cost to further invite our community into the inherently healing process of making art.

Previous art making experience not required.

Masking is required during class, masks are available.

Register here: https://curiositystudioclass.com/classregister/writing-drawing-as-exploration

Stuck in your head? Can't find the words? Looking to build or expand on a writing practice, drawing practice or both? We believe writing and drawing can be accessible, low-barrier-to-entry art forms that can be used for personal reflection and exploration.

During this workshop, participants will be invited to combine visual and verbal vocabularies to expand the ways they process themselves and the world, bridging right brain expressiveness with left brain logic. If you prefer writing, trying out drawing can get you out of your head and into your body for a more abstract expression of your internal world. For those who prefer to draw, writing can help you organize thoughts, feelings, and experiences and make sense of them. For folks who practice neither, we will provide encouragement and basic tools to begin using these methods. If you already practice both, there will be plenty of new ways to explore your practices.

This criss-cross can promote integrated selves and expanded choices.

Accessibility:  Participants will need some method of writing and drawing, including grasping writing utensils. If participants have their own assistive technologies that help them write/draw without having to grasp writing utensils, these are welcome. We will be seated throughout the class.

Masks required during class, additional masks will be available.

Register here: https://curiositystudioclass.com/classregister/open-studio-january

The creative process is anything but simple. Yet, two simple ingredients, art and community, prove to be our greatest tools time and time again.

Since our inception, we have offered Open Studio programming at no cost to further invite our community into the inherently healing process of making art.

Previous art making experience not required.

Masking is required during class, masks are available.

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Reading with Rage Hezekiah and Nat Baldwin

sponsored by Hooligan Mag

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/luminaries-poetry-reading-sponsored-by-hooligan-mag-tickets-144712586241

https://www.novaarts.org/events/paulineandzachreading

donation-based | 100% of artist proceeds go to the local free store, providing necessities to our unhoused neighbors, no questions asked

You are in a long-term, committed relationship with your body. But have you ever learned to talk to each other?

The Bodytalks is a movement workshop series for joy and self-compassion. Join me for a low-pressure workshop using generative and mindful exercises to connect you to your body and experience all it can do! Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience! This workshop will be adapted for a small space and presented in a one-hour format over Zoom.

We begin with a guided meditation and do a little bit of movement improvisation, and this online version will be extra friendly for anyone who might be nervous: you can turn off your video so nobody will see you!

Saturday, April 4 at 10:00am CDT // LINK TO JOIN: https://ala-events.zoom.us/j/523787438

Open to the public. Free. Learn more here: https://www.paulinemoll.com/the-bodytalks

You are in a long-term, committed relationship with your body. But have you ever learned to talk to each other?

The Bodytalks is a movement workshop series for joy and self-compassion. Join me for a low-pressure workshop using generative and mindful exercises to connect you to your body and experience all it can do! Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience! This workshop will be adapted for a small space and presented in a one-hour format over Zoom.

We begin with a guided meditation and do a little bit of movement improvisation, and this online version will be extra friendly for anyone who might be nervous: you can turn off your video so nobody will see you!

Thursday, March 26 at 7:00pm CDT // LINK TO JOIN: https://ala-events.zoom.us/j/666783612

Open to the public. Free. Learn more here: https://www.paulinemoll.com/the-bodytalks

You are in a long-term, committed relationship with your body. But have you ever learned to talk to each other?

This month’s workshop will be focused on SELF-LOVE, aptly falling the day after Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re free solo or partnered, we’ll focus on that vitally important relationship we’re each in—the one with our physical self.

The Bodytalks is a monthly movement workshop series for joy and self-compassion. Join me for a low-pressure workshop using generative and mindful exercises to connect you to your body and experience all it can do! Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience!

Open to the public. Pay-what-you-can. Learn more here: https://www.paulinemoll.com/the-bodytalks