salaam!!
got this message in my inbox. to all my writers, write on!
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Express Yourself, Share Experiences, and Connect with Others
FREE Writing & Poetry Workshops
FREE TTC, light supper and materials!
Email us at aqsaworkshops@gmail.com
Poetry workshops Sunday November 8th & 15th Regent Park Library Sunday 2 – 5 pm. With Shadi Eskandani poet/writer/youth support worker. Shadi’s publications appear in the anthology, Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War Faith and Sexuality and various zines. She is currently completing a collection of poetry and working on her first novel. The two-day workshop focus on the reading and writing of poetry as artistic expression, craft and form of empowerment.
Participants will strengthen their reading and writing of poetry withintent of creating work(s) to be published. Participants will spend time in class writing poems inspired by themes of “My Islam”. They will also provide one another with peer critique of the works created in workshop.
WHO: The workshops are open to anyone (16 -29) who self-identifies as a Muslim woman. Whether you are practicing or non-practicing, culturally, politically, spiritually or religiously identify as a Muslim person, are Sunni, Shi’a, Ismaili, Ahmadiyya, Sufi, or another denomination. AQSAzine strives to work from an anti oppressive, anti-racist, queer and trans positive framework.
The AQSAzine Creative Workshop Series is sponsored by ArtReach Toronto www.artreachtoronto.ca. Workshops will be happening throughout 2009 – 2010. Look out for: spoken word, radio documentary, screenprinting, journalism & poetry workshops by and for US! All workshops strive to work from a anti oppressive framework.
Pre-registration is required by October 31st. Enrollment limited to 15 participants per workshop. Email us: aqsaworkshops@gmail.com
Participate: If you’re tired of feeling alone or fragmented…If you get spoken to slowly because you’re wearing a hijab…If you get asked how you could be Muslim and NOT wear a hijab…If you’re a steady victim of racial profiling, harassment by police, or “random checks” at airports…If you’re constantly having to repeat your name because no one can pronounce it… We’re here for you, and we’re LOUD, intellectual, scandalous, curious, hijab wearing, non-hijab wearing, immigrant, honest, all of it MUSLIM: United by our cause and in our diversity. Join us, won’t you?
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