For over 2 years now, ideas for these creativity workshops have been emerging and wonderful writers have been showing up to them. The title of this blog is part of a workshop title: Write Out Loud: Speak Your Silence. That title came to me while talking to a dear friend and filmmaker, Meghan Horvath some years ago. We were discussing how we are often asked to describe who we are, what our projects are, what our goals are, what makes us artists and we are asked to do this fatatfat as my mother says in Hindi, fast, succinct, right on the spot, on the dotted line, while someone is pouring us wine, and expecting the answer before the glass is full. Both Meghan and I talked about how it's the work we'd rather let speak, not us. And I said, I really think we have to speak our silences as loud as those words. That phrase stuck and I knew that it meant more than I could really explain. Which is why I knew I could trust it. So it became a workshop and really the umbrella name for all the workshops I do - how do you speak your silence? how do you tell the story only you can tell?
I love bringing to these workshops all the different journeys that have brought me here and I love the deep play of them and mixing genres, mixing lives, mixing stories, memories and fictions, listening for what resonates and most of all, I love the encounter with others, seeking to give voice and spirit to what is always lying in wait. After having some especially beautiful workshop experiences these past few months, I felt inspired to feature some of the work that emerged from them. And so - this blog to do just that.
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Onwards, andale, into writing out loud.
--Shebana en Santa Fe
September 2015: reWrite the Past reVision the Present
a creativity workshop that invokes our oral traditions to create
prose/spoken word pieces. Details at www.shebanacoelho,com
I love bringing to these workshops all the different journeys that have brought me here and I love the deep play of them and mixing genres, mixing lives, mixing stories, memories and fictions, listening for what resonates and most of all, I love the encounter with others, seeking to give voice and spirit to what is always lying in wait. After having some especially beautiful workshop experiences these past few months, I felt inspired to feature some of the work that emerged from them. And so - this blog to do just that.
To receive updates as new material is posted to the blog and news about workshops, please SUBSCRIBE (on the right) or email me at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Facebook
Onwards, andale, into writing out loud.
--Shebana en Santa Fe
September 2015: reWrite the Past reVision the Present
a creativity workshop that invokes our oral traditions to create
prose/spoken word pieces. Details at www.shebanacoelho,com