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Workshop – Today We Celebrate (Or Not!)
February 22 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Looking for silly ways to be happy in spite of it all? Join us for a two hour workshop where we’ll use writing to find and celebrate all the ways we come together in our lives – from the perfect bubble tea, to binge watching our favorite series, family dinner, or sitting with our friends at lunch. In this low-stakes workshop, we’ll try out different writing genres, including poetry, memoir, and fiction. Whether you’re new to writing or have been doing it forever, you’re welcome to come celebrate creativity with us!
There will be light snacks (cookies!)
FREE, 6-8th graders are welcome to sign up!
INSTRUCTORS
Born and raised in Michigan, Lisa K. Roberts has taught literature and composition in Hong Kong, Charlottesville, Virginia, Las Vegas, and Lincoln, Nebraska. After moving to Iowa City, she worked as Assistant Director of the Iowa Youth Writing Project to bring free creative writing workshops to children and teens. Today she serves as Director of Iowa City Poetry, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to redistributing poetry resources with writers of all ages, incomes, identities, and experience levels. In this role, she co-produces The Free Generative Writing Workshops, IC Speaks Slam Team, Iowa City Poetry Al Fresco, Write at the Stanley, and Mic Check Poetry Fest. Her poetry has been published in Plainsongs, The Untidy Season, Little Village, Backchannels Journal, and she has been a featured spoken word performer at various venues, including Voice Box, Was the Word, NewBo PoJam, and Poetry in Motion.
Ruth “Ruben” Thomas is a poet and Iowa City local. Originally a fiction writer, she was introduced to spoken word poetry in 2019 and has been writing poetry ever since. She has competed in both local slams and state competitions, and has opened for poets such as Patricia Smith, Ebony Stewart, and Rudy Francisco. Reuben volunteers with youth program IC Speaks as an assistant director, youth coordinator, and slam team coach. When not behind the mic stand, she loves to still be on stage acting and singing, or finding somewhere quiet to drink boba, crochet, and binge watch video essays.
