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Metamorphoses Online w/ Leigh Hopkins (and video prompts from Lidia Yuknavitch)
October 27, 2019 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
$350METAMORPHOSES: NEW FORMS FROM THE BODY AND LANGUAGEtion,
WORKSHOP LEADER: Leigh Hopkins with pre-recorded video lessons and prompts w/ Lidia Yuknavitch
WHERE: Online for 6-weeks in a rich interactive platform, beginning 10/27/19
COST: $350
HOW: Each week has a pre-recorded video lesson from Lidia Yuknavitch for you to watch on your own time, as well as a written summary of the video, and a prompt. You post your response to the prompt (between 500-1500 words) by the end of the week for leader and peer collaboration. You will have continuous interaction and conversations online with Leigh, and she will provide feedback on your work at least 3 times. She is available for video conference calls upon request.
PARTICIPANT 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.
AND: To learn more about the specifics of the actual workshop, click HERE. These workshops fill FAST. If the workshop you want is full, sign up for the waiting-list.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: A native of New York, Leigh Hopkins left a career in public education reform to move to Brazil, where she founded an online institute by rigging a satellite dish to a boulder in a banana field. Today, she is a political columnist at The Rumpus, and her essays have been published in Longreads, McSweeney’s, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ENTROPY, The Manifest-Station, and others. An excerpt from her memoir was published at Longreads with the pitch line: “lesbian vegan Brazilian cult survivor.” To learn more about Leigh’s activism, visit “The 3.5% Project” at LeighHereNow.
Email registration@corporealwriting.com if you have questions.