Treelines: A Generative Collaboration with the Sisters Yuknavitch

WITH: Brigid Yuknavitch and Lidia Yuknavitch

WHEN&WHERE: Saturday April 3rd and Sunday April 4th, over Zoom. 10am-1pm PST both days.

HOW MUCH: $450. Twenty person cap. Payment plans are always available, contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com.

SCHOLARSHIPS: Click here to apply.

What are the trees saying in their ways and what might we say?

How many trees have been nearby in your life, standing as you were cradled and and then walked and then moved into the world? Did you see them touch them, hide inside them, or behind them? Did their smells come onto your skin as if you were a tree? Did you hear wind through them or watch the light flicker?

How have you been with trees? In this generative writing workshop we will let ourselves into our own awareness of trees and let that branch and root and sap into our writing. We will follow the forms of knowing of trees by inhabiting and even embodying metaphor, image and story as our own forest. We will use creative processes to be among trees and write along their lines.

You may generate seeds for new work and we will also explore how writing grows, tree-like, keeping other writing alive.

Bring a picture of yourself with a tree if you have one. Don’t worry if you don’t, we’ll take care of that.

This workshop follows on a series we began with Waterlines and Dreamlines. We welcome artists of all ilk. Lidia and Brigid are sisters, of the same tree. Lidia’s books are The Chronology of Water, The Small Backs of Children, The Book of Joan, The Misfit Manifesto and Verge. Brigid is a Jungian therapist and psychodramatist and poet, her poetry book is Lives of the Puzzleworkers. They’ve been talking to trees a lot lately.