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"I'm offering two more writing classes before the year ends! Sign up at the link in my bio. And please share this with your networks!
Classes are prices affordably for $45 each.
CLASS #3: THE SENTENCE
Sat, Dec 3
1pm-3pm CT
If you find yourself repeating the same style of writing over and over, it's time to return to the building blocks of sentences. In this one-day class, Ariana Brown will teach participants how to craft descriptive, surprising sentences using unconventional punctuation and phrases. Participants will study the work of Caribbean writer and wielder of complex sentences, Jamaica Kincaid, to get a sense of how to so this while remaining creative, emotional, and truthful. This class includes soup stay and discussion, lecture, writing exercises, Q&A, time to share, and take-home exercise to strengthen your sentences. Ideal for writers of all genres.
CLASS #4: ARTIST GRANTS
Sun, Dec 4
1pm-3pm CT
Whether you already have an idea for an artistic project or you need help envisioning one, this class on artist grants is a greater primer for writers looking to fund their creative work.Topics covered include types of grants, budgeting, and application strategy. Ariana will also include a walkthrough of her previous winning grant application. This class includes a presentation and lecture, Q&A, and take-home resources to help you build a successful grant application. Ideal for writers of all genres."
"Transitioning, following the theoretical work of Dora Silva Santana, “is our movement along that space of possibilities that produces embodied knowledge. It is moving across and along the waters, the imposed limits of gender” (2017: 183). Transitioning, then, can be understood as a continual practice of improvisation, imagination, discovery, and movement. Afro-Latinx studies, as an emergent field, takes up the key analytics of race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, culture, colonialism and migration. In a way, Afro-Latinx studies has transed Latinx studies but what might it mean to trans Afro-Latinx studies by focusing on transgender epistemologies, embodiments, and transgender acts of improvisation and imagination? This conversation gathers trans* Afro-Latinx scholars and activists to address the following questions: How does transitioning inform, nuance, expand, or critique Afro-Latinx studies and/or Afro-Latinx identity? And, what types of transitions do Afro-Latinx communities need to take in order for trans Afro-Latinx kin to live gloriously?"
If you have any accessibility needs for this event, please email us at latinxproject@nyu.edu.