Thursdays, August 5 – 26 (4 weeks)
7:00 – 8:30 p.m. EST | Online | Register to receive link

Pay-What-You-Can Pricing: To ensure that these special workshops facilitated by our Emerging Writer Fellows are as accessible as possible to the widest audience possible, we’re putting it into your hands to pay what you can for this workshop. Choose a ticket price, ranging from $25 to $100, based upon what feels right to you.

“Not being who I am is unacceptable.” —Nikky Finney

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” —Audre Lorde

A catalyst to choosing oneself through difficult times and practicing the importance of our truth, “I Am Here: Affirmation as a Form of Resistance” is a workshop where participants can speak back to that which has made us feel small, invisible and impossible throughout our lives. This workshop encourages participants to reclaim their bodies and histories. Whether it is a bully from your childhood, someone who told you that you can’t, or a country with systems that have shown they don’t care whether you are alive or not, it’s time to become bigger. It’s time to denounce the false truths others have given us about who we are and our worth. No previous workshop experience required.

Gabriyèl Ramirez is a queer Afro-Latinx poet, activist, and teaching artist who has received fellowships from The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Watering Hole, and CantoMundo. He has performed on Broadway in New York at the New Amsterdam Theatre, United Nations, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theater, and other venues and universities around the nation. Ramirez’s work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Vibe magazine, and on Remezcla.com, as well as in Bettering American Poetry Anthology (Bettering Books, 2017), Sa k Sove Nou: Pwezi sou Anpati ak Kòlè nan Epòk Trump la (Northwestern University Press, 2019), ak Pwezi Breakbeat Vol. 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Press, 2020).

Bous Etid Disponib pou Etidyan MDC

Fwa Liv Miami ap ofri de (2) bous etid konplè pou etidyan MDC ki enterese patisipe nan atelye ekriti kreyatif ki mansyone pi wo a. Kandida yo dwe etidyan ki enskri kounye a (a plen tan oswa a tan pasyèl) nan Miami Dade College, k ap pouswiv yon diplòm, e ki demontre yon bezwen finansye.

Pou aplike pou yon bous detid:
Tanpri voye yon imèl bay Marci Cancio-Bello, kowòdonatè pwogram Fwa Liv Miami a nan [email protected] by Friday, July 30 at 11:59 p.m. EST. The message must include your contact information, the title of the workshop you’d like to take, a short statement of financial need, your MDC class schedule, and a writing sample. First-time writers who lack a writing sample should submit a statement explaining their interest in the workshop.