Honor a Changing Planet: Creative Writing Workshop

Writing and Painting for Climate Change will give participants a chance to have creative outlets for their experience and feelings around climate change. Participants will have an opportunity to read climate change related poems and an essay. The class will walk in nature and have a chance to make obervations to create their own poems or short written pieces about any changes they’ve experienced due to extreme weather. Since it will be the week of Earth Day, the attendees will also have an opportunity to share what the day means to them.

Depending on the number of students in the workshop and the time, attendees may create a poem together in a similar form to the workshop reading Letter to Noah’s Wife.

Workshop Readings:

Letter to Noah’s Wife by Maya C. Popa – Poems | Academy of American Poets

The “Change” in Climate Change | The Poetry Foundation

How Octavia Butler’s 1993 book ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted our climate reality | Grist

Courtney Hall Gagnon

15+

Beginner

Carrollwood Village Room

• Notebook
• Writing utensil

n/a

$30 member / $35 non-member

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