Writing Workshop with AQSAzine!
Free Writing Workshop with AQSAzine November 13th 12:00 - 3:30
Express Yourself, Share Experiences, and Connect with Others
FREE TTC, food and materials! Register aqsaworkshops@gmail.com
Centre for Women and Trans People, University of Toronto 563 Spadina Ave. #100 Space is wheelchair accessible
Part of our creative workshop series, this free workshop will use poetry, prose and spoken word to explore issues that affect us as Muslim young women and trans people. Through guided prompts, under the theme “My Islam”, we will use our pens and our voices to locate these issues in our everyday experiences and to explore the various layers of our complex identities. There will also be opportunity to learn editing techniques with the intent of publishing work(s) in upcoming print and online issues of AQSAzine. Participants are encouraged to share with the group and will provide one another with regular peer feedback in the group setting.
WHO: The workshop is open to women and trans people (age 16 +) who self-identify as Muslim. Whether you are practicing or non-practicing, culturally, politically, spiritually or religiously identify as a Muslim person, are Sunni, Shi’a, Ismaili, Ahmadiyya, Sufi, or another denomination, you are welcome here. AQSAzine strives to work from an anti oppressive, anti-racist, queer and trans positive framework.
The AQSAzine Creative Workshop Series is sponsored by ArtReach Torontowww.artreachtoronto.ca. Workshops will be happening throughout 2010 -2011. Look out for: spoken word, radio documentary, screenprinting, journalism & poetry workshops by and for US! All workshops strive to work from a anti oppressive framework.
Pre-registration is required. Enrollment limited to 15 participants per workshop. Email us: aqsaworkshops@gmail.com
Participate: If you’re tired of feeling alone or fragmented…If you get spoken to slowly because you’re wearing a hijab…If you get asked how you could be Muslim and NOT wear a hijab…If you’re a steady victim of racial profiling, harassment by police, or “random checks” at airports…If you’re constantly having to repeat your name because no one can pronounce it… We’re here for you, and we’re LOUD, intellectual, scandalous, curious, honest, all of it MUSLIM: United by our cause and in our diversity. Join us, won’t you?
More information here.
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