About this Event
Creative Writing Workshop with Tureeda Mikell & Shizue Seigel
Readings of prose and poetry, followed by writing prompts, free-writing time and optional shares. Free. Open to writers of color and allies. No writing experience necessary. Bring a pen, paper or an electronic device for writing exercises.
African American Tureeda Mikell and Japanese American Shizue Seigel have grappled with lifetimes of uncertainty and change. Each in their own way, they have used transformed their collisions with trauma into healing celebrations of unity and creativity.
In a polarized world, we invite explorations of inner questions:
• What are you hiding and what do you seek?
• What are you learning and what do you need to unlearn?
• What sustains you and what holds you back?
• What do you need to see clearly; what brings you to light?
Tureeda Mikell is a 1996 Bay Area Writing Project Fellow, Oakland native, story medicine woman, poet, educator and activist for holism, Black Panther Alum She received the 2024 Berkeley Poetry Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has puublished over seventy anthologies by at-risk students through CA Poets in the Schools since 1989. She is uthor of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (2020), Patrice Lumumba Anthology , (co-curated 2021), and her full-length magical-realism collection, The Body: Oracle of Memory, Black Lawrence Press, 2024. She is a Qi energy worker who spent years as a nurse and health-care professional. A survivor of the state foster care system and chronic illnesses she has learned prevention is key. https://www.treeoflifefound.com/ https://www.treeoflifefound.com/
Shizue Seigel was born soon after her Japanese American family's release from US concentration camps. An uneasy member of the model minority until a high-school mental health crisis, she made her way through the Haight Ashbury, Indian ashrams and corporate America before the AIDS and crack epidemics introduced her to the power of community writing. She was recognized with a 2021 Jefferson Award for supporting Bay Area writers and artists of color through Write Now! SF Bay's workshops, events and anthologies. Her eight books include the anthologies Uncommon Ground: BIPOC Journeys to Creative Activism , Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color, and a forthcoming poetry collection Courting A Man Who Doesn’t Talk. https://www.writenowsf.com, https://www.shizueseigel.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Medicine for Nightmares, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, United States
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