Back in its SIXTH year, LSA is proud to offer Write by the Water, a 6-part intensive writing workshop for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) creative youths and adults, ages 18+, to express themselves through storytelling and the written word.
This year, we welcome storyteller, language scholar and multi-disciplinary artist, Jedidiah Mugarura as the program facilitator.
What you will get from the program:
This series invites BIPOC writers of all kinds to explore new works or to fine-tune works-in-progress, in a safer and inspirational environment while being mentored and coached by an industry professional.
Join other writers as we gather every week by the waterfront to strengthen your writing skills and share your stories. With the support of professional writer, language enthusiast and arts-educator Jedidiah Mugarura, participants focus on their works-in-progress with feedback from a diligent instructor and caring community.
Each in-person session, held (at least in part) by Lake Ontario at Amos Waites Park, shall open with dance as language embodied before visiting the page.
This workshop series is for:
BIPOC Creative Writers: authors, playwrights, poets, rappers, singers and writers of any other medium, ages 18+.
Registration is now CLOSED, thank you for your interest!
2024 session
Write by the Water 2024 – BIPOC Creative Writing Workshops Series
Date: Wednesdays, October 2nd – November 6th, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Lakeshore Arts (2422 Lake Shore Blvd. W., Etobicoke) and by the waterfront at Amos Waites Park.
Cost: FREE
If you have any questions please email our Programs Manager, Revital at communityprograms@lakeshorearts.ca.
About the Artist
Jedidiah Mugarura is a storyteller from Kampala, Uganda currently based in Tkaronto. A writer of Nkore descent, his storytelling seeks to find and reimagine the missing vowels to the songs we once sang before colonial violence, to project a future of agency and possibility for those still negotiating their bodies in empire. His poems and short stories appear or are forthcoming in Contemporary Verse 2, Brittle Paper, Humber Literary Review, Lolwe, Transition and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora.
Jedidiah has run poetry, fiction and playwriting creative writing workshops in his home country Uganda. Currently, he instructs the University of Guelph’s Continuing Education Program course, Creative Writing Through Reading.
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