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"Writing as Wanderlust: practicing play through collaboration and performance"What does it mean to truly play on the page, to enter a world with no rules? Are we even allowed to write purely for our own fun and amusement? How might it feel to be completely free?
In this session, we will explore these ideas through collaborative writing games. By not holding sole responsibility for the finished work, we can unshackle our pens and buck the walls we've built around our poet minds. Finally, we will apply this freedom to our own writing and see just how far into the unknown we can go.
Teacher Bio:
Eric Raanan Fischman is an MFA graduate of Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes, and he has received awards from Denver Quarterly and the Academy of American Poets. His poems appear in many journals and anthologies, including Bombay Gin, South Broadway Ghost Society, Twenty Bellows, New Feathers Anthology, Tiny Spoon, and more. He also curates the Boulder/Denver metro poetry calendar at boulderpoetryscene.com.
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Beyond Academia Free Skool (BAFS) offers 100% FREE Peer-to-Peer Poetry Education and Community for the People! We invite you to join us for our monthly Second Sunday Poetry Class at Boulder Public Library.
2nd Sundays is Sponsored by the Boulder Community Arts Alliance
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[Where:] Arapahoe Room of the Boulder Public Library (Main Branch). This room is upstairs by the main stairwell!
[When:] 2:00-4:45. (Intros and Announcements between 2:00-2:15, then class officially gets started!)
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[Tuition]
BAFS events are always 100% free to attend!
Tax deductible donations can be made through our fiscal sponsor, Boulder County Arts Alliance! All donations go towards paying Poets to teach and perform in our free-to-the-public programs.
[Link to donate:]
https://www.bouldercountyarts.org/con.../beyond-academia-llc
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JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, ACCESS AND INCLUSION
STATEMENT
Beyond Academia LLC Commitment to Justice, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion:
#Justice: Our mission to offer free to the public arts education is rooted in justice. The higher education system in the United States is deeply flawed, limiting the potential for diverse human capital in the arts, due to access barriers created by the high cost of tuition. Poetry is a tool which everyone deserves access to cultivating in their own voice. We strive to dismantle socioeconomic barriers to high quality arts education. In action, this looks like -
-- Advocating for free education.
-- Seeking needed funding to hire teachers for free to the public classes.
#Diversity: Poetry is the vehicle, through which we continuously arrive at a deeper awareness of the diversity of culture present within the intersectional identity of ourselves, others, and the group experience. In action this looks like -
-- Class participants representing a spectrum of lived experience and abilities.
#Equity: As we deepen our awareness and understanding of diversity, we must continually reflect on if our program practices are equitable, and adapt systems in place to ensure everyone receives what they need to participate in Beyond Academia programming. In action this looks like -
--Creating free educational spaces where anyone can be a student, regardless of socioeconomic status.
#Access: BAFS Programs will always be 100% free and open to the public. In action his looks like-
--Street Theatre Style poetry readings (free performances in public spaces)
-- Free to the public classes offered at the Boulder Public Library.
#Inclusion: We recognize that every student has a different story, and enters the classroom from a different starting point; we welcome all people, no one turned away. In action this looks like:
-- Socratic style classes that intentionally embed opportunities for civic dialogue
--an open door policy, come when you can and leave when you need to.
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Boulder Public Library, 959 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302-6017, United States
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