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

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/

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.

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.

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

A casual evening of readings by four Chicago writers in a cozy, warm apartment studio space. I’ll be reading poetry on love, heartbreak, and belonging.

The Newness is a space for “fearlessness, vulnerability, silliness, sharing meaningful work.” This month’s salon theme is LEGACY, 90 minutes of queer performances in honor of pride month.

I’ll be performing an original spoken word poem honoring and celebrating our queer community in the continued reverberations of the Pulse massacre. Flowers grow where trauma has fertilized the ground. Plus, my ultra-talented sister Mads will be selling their visual artwork in the lobby!

doors 7:30 / show 8:00 @ The Edge Off Broadway, $5 suggested donation

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/389948431617088/

My work will be featured in an evening showcasing graduating undergrad playwrights to Chicago professionals. Free and open to the public.

I'm doing a poetry reading for Helicon literary magazine for their spring issue, in which my work is featured. Free and open to the public. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/939578812889138/