Making & Memoir: Storytelling through Fibers 1M23

Making and Memoir is a two-day workshop intensive that stitches together personal writing with handcraft techniques.

The workshop centers calm and balance in the writing process by turning to textile-based exercises to facilitate self-expression, generate writing ideas and cut through writer’s block.

Participants will learn the benefits of repetition in craftwork as an ideation and “rest” technique in the midst of drafting, writing and editing a submission to The New York Times’ “Tiny Love Stories.”

By the end of the workshop, participants will have a complete, 100-word mini-memoir they may submit to The New York Times for consideration. They'll feel confident creating Yorkshire buttons, Suffolk puffs, and peace patches, as well as upcycled weaving and friendship bracelets.   Students will be well-versed in how to lean into a repetitive making process that facilitates the writing journey.

This workshop is for people ages 16+ of all craft abilities. A craft kit for each student will be available at the start of the workshop for $25, payable to the instructor.

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