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SUMMARY:The Mythology of Me: Applying Poetry and Narrative Therapy to Personal Stories with Aaron Deutsch and Dr. Heather Pitamber
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 2\, 2024\, 10am-2:30pm CST (includes a 30-minute lunch)\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructors: Aaron Deutsch and Dr. Heather Pitamber\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n  \nFrom ancient myths to family gossip\, humanity’s richness comes from its overflowing well of stories. Both personal narratives and imagined stories teach us about the world around us and influence how we live in it. What can we learn from rewriting our own personal stories into a life we have only imagined?  \nIn this 1-day generative workshop\, co-led by poet Aaron Deutsch and Licensed Professional Counselor Heather Joy Pitamber\, participants will explore the practice of Narrative Therapy\, a counseling technique that empowers participants to “rewrite” their story for a future that reflects who they really are\, what they are capable of\, and what their purpose is. Then\, we will practice applying this therapeutic tool to our own writing to generate compelling stories that carve out new possibilities.  \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nA foundational overview of Narrative Therapy \nClose readings and discussions of delicious poems and narratives designed to provide both grounding and inspiration for new works\nNew\, raw written materials to cultivate later\n\n\nHeather Joy Pitamber is a licensed professional counselor passionate about service\, learning\, and growth.  With degrees in Philosophy\, Psychology\, French Literature\, and Clinical Mental Health Counseling\, Heather has dedicated her eclectic career in Europe and the United States to education and human services.  She is passionate about helping her clients and students find the awareness\, insight\, and empowerment they desire to create lives of meaning and purpose.  As an educator with a heart for wellness\, Heather has cherished serving students and their families in public and private school settings\, from elementary school to the university level\, and as an independent academic consultant.  She is thrilled to continue serving her community’s diverse clientele through her private counseling practice in San Antonio\, TX.  \nAaron Deutsch received his MFA in poetry with distinction from Texas State University\, intending to acquire a lexicon to answer the wild\, mystical questions the world around him seemed to be asking. Somehow\, that journey led him to become a senior program manager with the United States Department of Defense\, where he works to build regional security across South America and the Middle East alongside international partners. Efforting to establish and maintain effective communication\, he still looks to poetics and linguistics to build shared goals across cultures\, finding more similarities than differences in people worldwide. In his free time\, he loves teaching creative writing classes\, working on that ever-elusive first book\, and spoiling his Boston Terrier Hamlet. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-mythology-of-me/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:To Praise the Ruined World with Sheila Black 
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 9\, 2024\, 10am-1pm CST\, online via Zoom\nInstructor: Sheila Black\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n  \nWe are living through hard times – and on a global scale. From political unrest to wars to climate change\, it is hard not to see the sorrow and suffering around us. Yet in difficult times\, the human impulse toward praise and celebration can provide unexpected ways of understanding\, empathizing\, and finding a way forward.   \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will read poems by Naomi Shihab Nye\, Adam Zagajewski\, Frank O’Hara\, Roger Reeves\, January Gil O’Neil\, and others that demonstrate how praise can be a tool for understanding and transcending even the hardest truths.  We will explore how these poets craft praise songs that acknowledge life’s sorrows and losses. We will then write our poems of recovery and resilience.  \nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels\, 18+.  \nIn this workshop\, students will: \n\nDraft several new written works\nUncover the power of praise as a fundamental writing tool\nBroaden their awareness of how contemporary poets address difficult topics\n\nRead Sheila’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nSheila Black is the author of five poetry collections\, most recently Radium Dream from Salmon Poetry\, Ireland. Poems and essays have appeared in Poetry\, Ploughshares\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. She is a co-editor of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Honors include a 2012 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress for which she was selected by Philip Levine. She lives in San Antonio\, TX and Tempe\, AZ where she is assistant director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/to-praise-the-ruined-world/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241114T183000
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SUMMARY:What Happens Inside: A Body Horror Workshop with Leticia Urieta
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, November 14 & 21\, 2024\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Leticia Urieta\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n  \nWhen it comes to our bodies\, there is little we fear more than the inevitability that our bodies will change\, can fall ill\, and will die. Body horror helps us to write about the absurdity\, beauty\, and horror of being corporeal.  \nThis two-session virtual workshop will focus on reading and discussing stories of body horror that affect us and engage with stories of illness\, trauma\, loss\, power\, monstrousness\, and reclamation. We will also discuss how these stories can inspire our own. In this generative workshop\, we will engage with multiple activities inviting us to write and share our own body horror stories. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 16+. \nBy the end of the class\, students will have:  \n\nDraft 1-2 new pieces based on sample readings and class discussion\nGain new insights into various genres\, from horror to speculative imaginings\, to apply to their future writing.\nCome away with an expanded knowledge of contemporary genres.\n\n\nLeticia Urieta is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. Leticia is a graduate of Agnes Scott College with a BA in English/Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. \nShe works as a teaching artist in the Austin community. She is also the Program Director for Austin Bat Cave and the Director of Barrio Writers in Austin and Pflugerville\, a free college-level youth writers workshop founded by author and activist Sarah Rafael Garcia in Santa Ana\, CA. \nHer creative work appears in PANK\, Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, and many others. Her fiction explores the intersections of Latinx identity with folklore\, traditional stories\, and the supernatural or speculative. Her mixed-genre collection of poetry and prose\, Las Criaturas\, was published with FlowerSong Press in November 2021 and was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and a finalist for the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Short Story Collections. \nLeticia loves living in Austin with her husband and aging chihuahua\, who are terrible work distractions. Despite all this\, she is fueled by sushi and breaks to watch pug videos on Instagram. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/what-happens-inside/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-11-20/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241125T183000
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-11-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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