Level: All

Instructor: Patricia Preciado Martin

We all have our stories. In the deep pockets of our overstimulated and busy brains there resides a desire to record, preserve, and interpret our individual and communal histories. By integrating oral history recordings, personal family interviews, and various texts of chronicled communities, this class will explore the tools needed to develop this unique literary craft. We are inevitably marked by our histories – national, cultural, local, and personal. Let’s take the time to write them down, to discuss the inspiration behind such stories, and to ask our own questions. It is as George Santayana says, “A country without a memory is a country of madmen.”

Date: Saturday, Nov. 6, 9am – 3pm (one hour lunch included)

Limit: 12 Participants

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Nov. 3

Teachers CPE Credits: 5 Language Arts

Fee: $90 Discounted Fee: $81

NOTE: The required $10 Gemini Ink registration fee is marked as shipping and handling on PayPal.

About the instructor: Patricia Preciado Martin has spent the last 30 years documenting the history, culture, and traditions of Mexican Americans in Arizona. Her oral histories include Images and Conversations: Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past (University of Arizona Press, 1983), which won the national Virginia McCormick Scully prize for the best history by a Mexican American or Native American the year of its publication. Patricia’s short story collection, Amor Eterno: Eleven Lessons of Love (University of Arizona Press, 2002), received the Southwest Book Award for fiction given by the Border Library Association. She recently received the Luminaria Medallion, awarded by the Tucson Pima Arts Council.

SAVE THE DATE: Martin will also be participating  in November’s First Friday Reading with Jacqueline Kolosov on Nov. 5 at 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, located at 513 S. Presa. The event is free and open to the public.