october 4th—november 29th
The Radical Writer
a relational reading-writing workshop
in virtual communal workshops we will inquire, make, and think through the works of four women who traversed and re-shaped their respective genres.
St. Mary Magdalene,
Etel Adnan,
Suzanne Césaire,
Ursula K. Le Guin.
these thinkers wrote in the form of scripture, poetry, philosophy, and science-fiction while foregrounding the political dimensions of human nature(s). guided by their landscapes, seascapes, and spiritscapes we will open our doors of imagination and apply critical thinking to these texts as a way to craft works of creative resistance.
while reading and writing will be the departure points for our practice together, we will also expand into making-as-thinking with other mediums. the surreal, symbolic, and ecological will all shape our explorations of radical expression. with embodied emphasis on tactile practices of the hand, we will explore how gestures shape worlds into being.
all assigned readings will be provided for free through open-sourcing online. participants are invited to bring journals, notepads, pastels, crayons or whichever creative tools inspire them.
imagine the spirit of a book club meets a multi-media creative studio... we invite you to immerse yourself for 9 weeks of depth, curiosity, and play.
“Surrealism is permanent readiness for the Marvelous.”
―Suzanne Césaire
COURSE STRUCTURE
after our introductory session, we will alternate between reading + writing weeks to provide you with ample time to explore the creative techniques of each writer while developing your own practice. each gathering will emphasize small group work.
week 1 | intro/studio space set-up
week 2 | reading St. Mary Magdalene
week 3 | writing workshop #1
week 4 | reading Etel Adnan
week 5 | writing workshop #2
week 6 | reading Suzanne Césaire
week 7 | writing workshop #3
week 8 | reading Ursula K. Le Guin
week 9 | writing workshop #4
we WILL MEET EVERY SATURDAY FROM 12PM-2PM EST ON ZOOM, BEGINNING ON October 4th
pre-sale pricing ends on september 17th
PAYMENT PLAN
$175 x 2
VIRTUAL Course
PAY IN FULL
$315
enjoy 10% off
for this offering, we have 5 full scholarships available for BIPOC individuals in financial need. please email info@sainthilairegallery.com to inquire.
Your teaching team
Ella St. Hilaire
FOUNDER, SAINT HILAIRE GALLERY
Ella is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist, whose research emerges at the intersection of Caribbean decolonial theory, gender/sexuality studies, and film aesthetics. at Harvard Divinity School, she developed a multi-species theological narrative of the Haitian Revolution that re-imagines liberation struggle through the lens of the ecological and supernatural.
PARTNERSHIP LEAD, MIT INSTITUTE FOR WORLDMAKING
Nathalie Attallah
Nathalie is an artist-designer with an ethics-centered art-design praxis. at the Harvard Graduate School of Design her work explored anti-colonial methodologies, often using sand as a collaborative medium to investigate deep time, queer ecologies, and entangled systems. she is the co-author of Errant Design: Design(ing) Without Solutions in Commons in Design (Valiz).
