Here, We Are : Writing Workshop with Sherry Quan Lee (1)

Storytelling. It’s monkey mind. It’s conversation. It’s crafting our lives by crafting our words. It’s claiming the past and imagining the future with no rules of craft or politics except the ones we, individually, choose, the ones that work for us. Stories that save our lives and enter our world like angels flapping their wings, creating music, something like jazz. Our goal is to break silence and invisibility by reading, writing, contemplating, and conversing; and, to imagine a future by breaking through barriers that have shut us out and shut us up-that have tried to define us. We will look within and without--and shout out, bringing our mixed race stories of intersectional identity to the surface. We will embrace our stories in all of their complexity in order to understand and challenge social or cultural obstacles to loving who we are. We will look in a mirror and see beauty, strength wit, and wisdom. We will look at each other and see the same. Participants will summon the past, witness the present, and invoke the future using literature, historical records, photographs, maps, and memorabilia to remember, reveal, confront, embrace, and document their stories. - Sherry Quan Lee

Please bring at least three different items that in some way express who you are, for example: a photograph, a letter, a map, a document, a song, even a hat.

Sherry will have copies of her most recent book, HOW DARE WE! WRITE., available for purchase. You can purchase a copy of her Mixed Race memoir, LOVE IMAGINED here (link to https://www.amazon.com/s?k=love+imagined&ref=nb_sb_noss )

The true cost of this event is $20 per attendee. To keep our events open and accessible for all, any donations are valued and appreciated. As a part of our sponsorship for this event, MidWest Mixed works to cover the fees to make this event possible.