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Epistemologies Online Workshop w/ Leigh Hopkins – Starts May 16
May 16, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
$400EPISTEMOLOGIES: Writing to Unmake and Remake Meaning
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WORKSHOP LEADERS: These workshops are led collaboratively, because we believe in it! Lidia Yuknavitch is featured via video in both workshops, every week, while Leigh Hopkins will be available for questions, discussions, and will provide you with written feedback. You will receive written leader feedback at least 3 times.
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WHERE & WHEN: Start Date of 5/16/20. Each workshop is 6 weeks, and takes place on an interactive online platform.
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HOW: Each week will have a video of Lidia discussing making writing as an epistemological act, complete with prompts and writing assignments so that you too can write the body as an epistemological site—a site where human meaning is made anew, by you. You post your response to the prompt (between 500-1500 words) by the end of the week for leader and peer collaboration.
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PARTICIPATION EXPECTATION: You are expected to give feedback, which we provide a how-to-guide for, to at least two other writers’ work every week. This is important and a commitment we ask you to take seriously.
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COST: This workshop is $400.
How many different ways do our bodies make meaning in our lives? The birth body, the death body, the body inside the pulse and heat and sweat of sexuality? The incarcerated body, the liberated body, the body in pleasure or pain? The athlete’s body, the dancer’s body, the body abled differently.
Epistemology is simply The Study of Knowledge, but that study has historically left bodies out. We think writing and literature is a place where we can insist our bodies have a POV, just as writers such asLeslie Marmon Silko, Duras, Acker, Whitman, Colette, Lispector & Irigaray have done. In this workshop, we will contemplate creative writing techniques and structures that innovates, invents and performs the ways in which the body is an epistemological site—a site where all human meaning is made and unmade. A made again. Anew.
Week 1: The Body as an Epistemological Site, part 2.
Week 2: Disrupting Dualisms
Week 3: Perceiving Perception
Week 4: Ignorance: Unlearning Bliss
Week 5: Corporeal Languages
Week 6: Corporeal Structures
Contact registration@corporealwriting.com with questions.
Leigh Hopkins left a career in social policy to move to Brazil, where she founded an online institute by rigging a satellite dish to a boulder in a banana field. Now based in Philadelphia, Leigh is writing the revolution one method at a time at the 3.5% Project. Leigh is a columnist at The Rumpus, and her essays have been published in Longreads, McSweeney’s, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ENTROPY, and others. Her Rumpus essay “Blood Feast” was nominated for The Best American Essays 2020. Her memoir, THE CURE, is under representation by Kent D. Wolf of Neon Literary.