BIG READ Tucson

Workshop Opportunities

 

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Among our many exciting Big Read events, Kore Press, TYPS, the UA Poetry Center, and local, national, and international scholars are coming together to host workshop opportunities in Tucson this fall! We offer everything from slam poetry, to poetry in translation and turning poetry into dance in hopes to accommodate writers of all ages and styles.

Spread the word, invite your friends, and register now -- space is limited!

 

 

For a full listing of all our Big Read events, click here.

Questions? Email Miranda at kore@korepress.org or call 520-327-2127.

 

 

Oct. 5, 2011 from 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Slamming Emily workshops - free!

Tucson High Magnet School Library

Emily Dickinson like you've never heard her before -- poetry slam style! Come check out this free writing and performance workshop with Logan Phillips of the infamous Tucson Youth Poetry Slam (TYPS)! Open to all youth ages 13-19.

Email kore@korepress.org to register!

 

Oct. 12, 2011 from 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Slamming Emily workshops - free!

Sam Lena South Tucson Branch Library

Emily Dickinson like you've never heard her before--poetry slam style! Come check out this free writing and performance workshop with Logan Phillips of the infamous Tucson Youth Poetry Slam (TYPS)! Open to all youth ages 13-19.

Email kore@korepress.org to register!

 

Oct. 15, 2011 from 3:30 - 5 p.m.
Slamming Emily workshops - free!

Himmel Park Library

Emily Dickinson like you've never heard her before—poetry slam style! Come check out this free writing and performance workshop with Logan Phillips of the infamous Tucson Youth Poetry Slam (TYPS)! Open to all youth ages 13-19.

Email kore@korepress.org to register!

 

Oct 15, 2011 from 10 a.m. - noon
workshop at the Movement Shala, $15

A glee possesseth me: Making Dance out of Poem

Join dancer/writer Kimi Eisele and poet/publisher Lisa Bowden for a journey through Emily Dickinson's poetry using movement and writing exercises. Invigorate your own writing, learn more about the process choreographers sometimes use to create dances, get a little exercise, and gain a deeper understanding of Ms. Dickinson's poetry. Suitable for people of all ages and abilities. No prior dance experience necessary. This workshop also serves as a sneak peek at the creative process used by New ARTiculations for the Nov. 12 performance.

 

Oct. 17, 2011 from 6-9 p.m.
UA Poetry Center, "Gem-Tactics": Writing with Emily Dickinson
Workshop with Eva Heisler, $40
Presented with support from Poets & Writers

This three-hour workshop explores writing strategies inspired by Dickinson's experiments in language. As Dickinson made poems out of her reading, we will investigate the possibilities for reading (and playing with) Dickinson's poems as a way of generating our own poems.

 

Oct. 20, 2011 from 1-2 p.m.
Slamming Emily workshops - free!

Woods Library

Emily Dickinson like you've never heard her before—poetry slam style! Come check out this free writing and performance workshop with Logan Phillips of the infamous Tucson Youth Poetry Slam (TYPS)! Open to all youth ages 13-19.

Email kore@korepress.org to register!

 


Oct. 26, 2011 from 6 - 8 p.m.

Workshop & Talk with Anne Waldman, $40

UA Poetry Center
This World is not Conclusion. . .

Reading through Emily Dickinson's poems, we will consider our own "ethopoetics" and what "nibbles at the soul." We will engage in several "experiments of attention," utilizing montage, dream, "story," collaboration, and a form of modal structure. Waldman will discuss her own praxis and composition in relation to her books: Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets, 2009) and The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011). Some familiarity with Dickinson's and Waldman's work is helpful but not necessary.

 

Nov. 5, 2011 from noon - 5 p.m.
with Elizabeth Frankie Rollins & Kristen Nelson, $25

Casa Libre en Solana, 228 N 4th Ave
What Would Emily Say? An Unbridled Translation Workshop

Spend the afternoon in conversation with the poems of Emily Dickinson using traditional and non-traditional translation methods and languages such as: homophonic translation, texting language, punctuation, Oulipo techniques, 21st c and other languages. Join us for a structured and unbridled workshop! Bring paper, pen, cell phones, computers, foreign language dictionaries. Snacks included.

 

Nov. 12, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $40

for VIP seating and receptionPCC Center for the Arts, Proscenium Theater
An Evening of Dickinson inspired performances with New ARTiculations, Katherine Ferrier of The Architects, and Vicki Brown

Evening length performance of Emily Dickinson inspired dances by New ARTiculations Dance Theater (a series of solos and an ensemble piece); with Katherine Ferrier (of The Architects) and new musical compositions by Vicki Brown.

 

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