WRITE ON - HomePermalink
WRITE ON - Home is an upcoming offering of Community Canvases’ Kind Fools’ WRITE ON intuitive writing workshops using the theme of “home” with communities that have a special relationship with the concept/experience of home. These workshops provide a supportive and creative environment for an exploration of our individual and collective relationship with the idea, feeling, and experience of home.
We will offer these in summer/fall 2025:
- Four workshops with immigrant communities with interpreters
- Four workshops with our local homeless communities
- Four workshops welcoming both of these communities as well as our broader community
Anyone is welcome at any of these workshops, as we discover our common humanity by listening more deeply to ourselves and each other. We will explore topics together including home, safety and belonging. In current political rhetoric, there is a theme that some people belong more than others. These workshops are a clear statement that everyone belongs, and an opportunity for everyone to express their truth and creativity in a supportive and barrier-free environment. By gathering in a fully inclusive space, where every participant feels empowered to fully belong and to fully welcome every other participant, we model together a feeling of safety, a feeling of belonging, and a feeling of home.
Please check back here in the coming months for more details.
WRITE ON - Home 2024 (a reduced-scale pilot project)Permalink
WRITE ON - Home 2025 will build on the four workshops that Community Canvases’ Kind Fools led in partnership with The NYIC last summer:
- Workshop 1:00pm to 4:00pm, Wednesday July 17, 2024 at Raha Coffee House in Arabic and English
- Workshop 1:00pm to 4:00pm, Tuesday July 30, 2024 at Fitz Books & Waffles in Burmese and English
- Workshop 1:00pm to 4:00pm, Tuesday August 13, 2024 at Fitz Books & Waffles in Spanish and English
- Workshop 1:00pm to 4:00pm, Tuesday August 27, 2024 at Fitz Books & Waffles in French and English
The goal of this project is to build just relationships (and a common sense of community) among people across the city, to foster confidence in self-expression and writing, and to build paths of mutual respect and understanding. Putting the comfort and emotional safety of our participants first, we seek to discover what these writers create from their lived experience. What universal truths and commonalities arise among each group’s writings? What is unique in each person or groups’ relationship with home?
For more information on this collaboration between
The New York Immigration Coalition
and Community Canvases’ Kind Fools,
or to explore hosting these workshops with your
community, please reach out to
Anna Porter at
aporter@nyic.org or (315) 729-2308
or to
Hy Carrel
at hy@communitycanvases.org or (716) 259-2725
