Interdisciplinary Writers Lab Chapbook Launch Party
Interdisciplinary Writers Lab Chapbook Launch Party Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Join us in celebrating the launch of the Interdisciplinary Writers Lab chapbook, put together by members of the 2023 cohort! This event will feature readings of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction by contributors to the chapbook, as well as special performances by Starlight and Mama Ganuush, who will also be MC'ing the event. Light food and drink will be provided at the end of the evening, with alcoholic beverages available for purchase. Chapbooks will be for sale.
About Interdisciplinary Writers Lab
Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL) is a 3-month, multi-genre master class for local BIPOC writers. It happens every summer. In this unique program emerging writers will be challenged to explore and develop their writing skills and styles across multiple genres.
About Starlight (Guest Performer)
Starlight is a non binary space babe and scared slut. Though they long for distant homelands, they make home on earth through telling love stories. Starlight emerges from queer ancestry and South West Asian and North African (SWANA) cosmology. From the land, from the waters, they rise with the people for liberation and resistance for a free Palestine. They shine in displacement, celebrating trans-indigeneity, automythology, and collective radiance! They dance dabke with Palestinian dance group Al Juthoor and perform drag in nightlife and community spaces across the Bay Area and galaxy. Find them in interdimensional travel and on IG at @youcandoithabibi
About Mama Ganuush (MC & Guest Performer)
Mama Ganuush is a disowned, liberated, disabled, Palestinian African, Trilingual Trans drag artist, actor, model, and social justice activist. Mama Ganuush dedicates their work to ending the Palestinian genocide & the liberation from the Israeli apartheid. Mama Ganuush earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering, and masters in philosophy. Mama Ganuush founded House Ganuush, and Heritage Activists & Liberation Artists (HALA) collective.
COVID-19 protocol: Acknowledging that we are still in an active pandemic and that community members may be immunocompromised and/or particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, the organizers of this event are requiring masks be worn during the duration of the evening's programming. Light food and drink will be enjoyed at the end of the evening, so that those particularly sensitive to COVID-19 can participate in the programming comfortably.
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Accessibility: Do you need accommodations to attend this event (ASL interpreting, accessible seating, etc)? Please let us know! 510-545-ARTS