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FREE WRITE with Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Title: Navigating With(out) Instruments: the workshop. a creative process and writing workshop with traci kato-kiriyama.
How do we navigate through the many layers of our Self while trying to create? How do we write through our constant transformations that include processes of reckoning, relearning, excavation, healing? How do we honor our life experience(s) within the context of Other / the community / the world? Navigating With(out) Instruments is a collection of "poetry, micro essays, and notes to self" authored by multi-disciplinary artist, traci kato-kiriyama, and the NWI workshop will focus on: 1) themes of memory, belonging, "Death Moments" and transformation; and 2) the very real and difficult process behind any soul-baring, creative project - from a single poem to an entire collection of writing. traci will discuss some of her hard-earned process in developing NWI over many years, and offer prompts and exercises (from letters to dialogue to a "Table Of Contents") to stimulate and support the continuance of your writing and creative journey.
Traci Kato-Kiriyama (they+she) --based on unceded Tongva land in the south bay of Los Angeles-- is an award-winning multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary artist, recognized for their work as a writer/performer, theatre deviser, cultural producer, and community organizer. As a storyteller and Artivist, tkk is grounded in collaborative process, collective self-determination, and art+community as intrinsically tied and a critical means toward connection and healing. She is a performer & principal writer for PULLproject Ensemble, two-time NET recipient; NEFA 2021-22 finalist for their show TALES OF CLAMOR. tkk —presented for over 25 years in hundreds of venues throughout North America as a writer, actor, poet, speaker, guest lecturer, facilitator, Artist-in-Residence, and organizing / arts & culture consultant— has come to appreciate a wildly hybrid career (w/ presenters incl. LaMaMa Cabaret; Enwave Theatre; The Smithsonian; The Getty; Skirball Cultural Center; and Hammer Museum, to Zero Gravity; Grand Park; Whisky a Go Go; Hotel Cafe; House Of Blues Foundation Room; and countless universities, arts spaces, and community centers across the country). Their work is also featured in a wide swath of media and print publications (incl. NPR; PBS; Elle.com; Entropy; Chapparal Canyon Press; Tia Chucha Press; Bamboo Ridge Press; Heyday Books; Regent Press).