✍️ WORKSHOP: Embodied Writing: Somatic Strategies for Creativity with Rachel Nelson
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
How are our bodies an essential (and often forgotten) piece of the writing process? How are our physical selves in constant conversation with our creative lives?
Join us for a 60-minute workshop with writer and performer Rachel Nelson to explore how our physical bodies provide opportunities to expand and deepen our creative work. This workshop is designed to give you an accessible entry point into the world of somatic practices and the opportunity to personalize a plan to help you hone your writing process.
We’ll explore:
The basics of somatic practice: what is it, and how can it benefit our writing practices
How to increase your understanding of your unique somatic relationship with writing: what role does your body play in your writing? Where does your somatic experience provide opportunities? Where does it present obstacles?
How to use somatic work to overcome blocks and deepen your authentic access to your own writing voice
Writers should bring basic analog writing supplies (paper/pen) and their computers and wear clothing they can comfortably stretch in.
About Rachel Nelson
Rachel Nelson is a queer fiction writer and playwright from rural Oregon. She has lived and worked in New Orleans for the past decade, where she is a Professor of Humanities at Bard Early College. She uses writing and performance as strategies to explore issues of liberatory identity, especially around issues of gender, sexuality, class, and race.
Her essays, interviews, and academic work have been published by BOMB Magazine, Femme Feminism, Bard College, and the University of Maine. Her plays have been produced/read at a number of venues including:The Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Fringe Festival, The Sugar Space in Salt Lake City, the Oregon Contemporary Theater, Performance Works Northwest, The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Lincoln Center’s Director’s Lab in New York City, The Mendocino Actor’s Theater in California, and in various backyards and living rooms all across the country. She is the founder and producer of Pillow Talk, a queer writing showcase in New Orleans dedicated to liberatory works of fiction and creativity.
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