What is a poem now? by Rania El Mugammar
This seven (7) week hybrid program offers a supportive and structured writing space, alongside a bookbinding workshop with Guest Facilitator Michael Fliess.
Participants can expect to explore the question “what is a poem now?” from a creative and political perspective. The role of artists and writers in our current world is an entry point for writing and reflection. Anchored in the poetic forms of haiku, oral poetry/spoken word, rap and micropoetry, writers will explore narrative, structure, orality, and rhythm in their work.
Drawing from a variety of literary and poetic traditions, learners will share, give feedback and workshop existing or new poems. The bookbinding elements will allow participants to create a tangible and physical copy of their works.
Date: Tuesday, February 4th – Tuesday, March 18th
Time: 6-8pm for writing (Online), 6-8:30pm for bookbinding (In-person)
Where: Zoom (Online), Gibson House Museum – 5172 Yonge St (In-person)
Price: Free
Program Lead: Rania El Mugammar
Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese Artist, Liberation Educator, Abolitionist, Anti-oppression Consultant , multidisciplinary performer, speaker and published writer. Her work explores reproductive justice, transformative justice & abolition, art as liberation and digital justice.
As a writer, Rania’s work explores themes of identity, womanhood, Blackness, flight, exile, migration, belonging, gender, sexuality and beyond. Rania’s primary mediums are poetry, spoken word and oral storytelling. She is a published poet, storyteller and playwright. Rania is deeply interested in poetic form and the auditory texture of words as well as the visual/aesthetic impact of language and form.
Rania is an experienced anti-oppression, abolition and liberation educator and consultant who is unflinchingly committed to decolonization and freedom as the ultimate goals of her work. She has worked extensively with contemporary arts institutions, STEM based enterprises, media organizations, educational institutions and community/grassroots spaces.
www.raniawrites.com
www.facebook.com/raniaelmugammar
www.patreon.com/raniawrites
Twitter: @raniawrites
Instagram: @rania.writes
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