contending with place: postcolonial writers and the politics of the town
Telling our stories of place and town, and contending with our plural identities as writers by writing together.
Experimental lecture by Carissa Pobre
Followed by a writing workshop session / collective artmaking session co-facilitated with Padma Perez
EVENT
April 26, Saturday, 3:30-6:30PM @ Mt Cloud Bookshop, Baguio City
ABSTRACT
This experimental lecture will be one part performative essay, and one part collective writing workshop to reflect on the meaning of place and places in our lives, especially as writers and artists. The workshop will co-create a collaborative photo essay on the places that make us, using our own photographs and written responses to creative prompts. Together we will reflect on ways to understand one’s sense of place in terms of community/ies, identity/ies, and political units that tend to organize our place-based notions.
KEYWORDS
community, place, political formation, Philippine poetics