service writing: a conversation for writers in response to hurricane katrina
Service Writing: A Conversation for Writers in Response to Hurricane Katrina
Saturday, September 17th 1:00 - 2:30
The WITS Office
1523 West Main
Houston, TX 77006
This meeting facilitated by Holly Masturzo and coordinated by Stacy Aab will:
* Provide a creative forum for processing our own reactions and questions to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
* Serve as a brainstorming session on how writers may work as writers in the relief efforts
* Offer information and networking opportunities for writers to identify the ways they would most like to participate in area and/or individual projects
Your "best response" may be physical labor, a series of poems, ground zero journalism, one afternoon or a scheduled commitment. The goal of this meeting is to slow down and share together where we are and what we are wondering about as an entry way to shaping and deepening the broad spectrum of projects that feel worthwhile to us.
Specific initiatives already in process:
* Holly is designing WITS programming for evacuees at the G. R. Brown Convention Center supported by the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County
* Stacy is launching the Katrina Writers' Project, a documentation project of evacuees narratives
* Amanda Nowlin is coordinating similar services/programming in the Huntsville area under the name HARP (Huntsville Arts Relief Program)
This meeting will open with a large group circle conversation, followed by the sharing of specific information about project ideas and initiatives. The last half of the meeting will be devoted to writers planning in small groups.
Stacy Aab is a writer. For six years, she has taught creative writing
to students K-12 in Houston and Detroit. Previously, she worked
five years in the Clinton White House, assisting George Stephanopoulos
and Paul Begala. She's also served as a Presidential advanceperson.
She currently teaches with Houston's Writers in the Schools.
Holly Masturzo is a writer, teacher and professional facilitator. In addition
to teaching writing in K-12 classrooms and at the university level,
she has lead support groups and arts activities in a variety of health
and human service settings. She currently works as the Director of
Teaching & Learning for Writers in the Schools and as adjunct faculty
at the University of Houston.
Saturday, September 17th 1:00 - 2:30
The WITS Office
1523 West Main
Houston, TX 77006
This meeting facilitated by Holly Masturzo and coordinated by Stacy Aab will:
* Provide a creative forum for processing our own reactions and questions to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
* Serve as a brainstorming session on how writers may work as writers in the relief efforts
* Offer information and networking opportunities for writers to identify the ways they would most like to participate in area and/or individual projects
Your "best response" may be physical labor, a series of poems, ground zero journalism, one afternoon or a scheduled commitment. The goal of this meeting is to slow down and share together where we are and what we are wondering about as an entry way to shaping and deepening the broad spectrum of projects that feel worthwhile to us.
Specific initiatives already in process:
* Holly is designing WITS programming for evacuees at the G. R. Brown Convention Center supported by the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County
* Stacy is launching the Katrina Writers' Project, a documentation project of evacuees narratives
* Amanda Nowlin is coordinating similar services/programming in the Huntsville area under the name HARP (Huntsville Arts Relief Program)
This meeting will open with a large group circle conversation, followed by the sharing of specific information about project ideas and initiatives. The last half of the meeting will be devoted to writers planning in small groups.
Stacy Aab is a writer. For six years, she has taught creative writing
to students K-12 in Houston and Detroit. Previously, she worked
five years in the Clinton White House, assisting George Stephanopoulos
and Paul Begala. She's also served as a Presidential advanceperson.
She currently teaches with Houston's Writers in the Schools.
Holly Masturzo is a writer, teacher and professional facilitator. In addition
to teaching writing in K-12 classrooms and at the university level,
she has lead support groups and arts activities in a variety of health
and human service settings. She currently works as the Director of
Teaching & Learning for Writers in the Schools and as adjunct faculty
at the University of Houston.