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Creative Writing Workshop with Community Building Art Works

August 22, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:45 pm

| $5

As featured in the 2018 HBO Documentary We Are Not Done Yet, Community Building Art Works serves veterans, military personnel, and members of the community through generative creative-writing workshops. Led by accomplished authors, they are focused on using the written word as a tool for introspection, communication, and connection. Bring a pen, a notebook, and an open mind.

Tickets are $5

Doors at 6:30, workshop begins promptly at 7 pm

 

 

About the Facilitator

Seema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives (poetry, Write Bloody Publishing) & When the World Breaks Open (memoir, Red Hen Press). Her writing has appeared in print and on-line in Entropy, The Feminist Wire, Bellevue Literary Review, The Offing, Full Grown People, and The Nervous Breakdown among others, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught poetry in classrooms, jails, hospitals, and universities, and has performed across the country at universities, theaters, festivals, bookstores, conferences, & one fine mattress shop.

Details

Date:
August 22, 2019
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Cost:
$5
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Venue

Studio 208 – Riverview Room
Phone:
703-746-4570

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Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N. Union St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
Email: [email protected]
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