Taking up Space – Arizona Biennial 2024 Creative Writing Class with Laila Halaby
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Saturday, Jan 11, 2025 2pm - 4pm
Location
Tucson Museum of Art
140 N Main Ave
Details
Saturday January 11, 2025
2 – 4 pm
Capacity: 12 people
$30 non-members / $25 members
All materials provided
Taking Up Space is a two-hour creative writing workshop that explores some of the themes brought forth by this year’s biennial artists, including identity, place, and transience. We will explore (in writing) our intersections as well as how we move in our space, both physically and through time.
What do we pick up? What do we leave behind? And when we find ourselves in the same spot together, how do we have meaningful interactions?
If you have a favorite notebook, bring it along! (No pens though.) We will provide clipboards, paper, pencils, and stools.
About the Instructor: In addition to more than seventy-five poetry, short story, and essay publications, Laila Halaby is the author of a memoir, The Weight of Ghosts, two novels, Once in a Promised Land and West of the Jordan (winner of a PEN Beyond Margins/Open Book award), and two collections of poetry. She holds two master’s degrees and was a Fulbright recipient. Laila lives in Tucson, Arizona, where, for the last decade, she has worked to merge her two career paths (counselor and writer) by working with community groups and organizations to create trauma-informed, expressive arts programming that serves veterans, refugees, homeless youth, as well as the general population.
