Expressive Epistolary Writing Series
Schedule
Wed Jun 07 2023 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location
1477 Park Street | Hartford, CT
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1477 Park St Suite 102, Hartford, CT 06106 Week 1 of 3 Workshop Series Monophonic
(Addressing letters to one person or self. Participants will write to express inner monologues taking residence in their mine).
Week 2 of 3 Workshop Dialogic
(Addressing open letters to two people or characters with one being oneself. Participants will write and express out longing thoughts in a dialogue like fashion. Letters to release or express longing of any kind to encourage healing).
Week 3 of 3 Workshop Series Polyphonic
(Addressing letters to three people or more characters with one being oneself. Participants will write to self advocate and express thoughts creatively and persuasively).
Nzima Hutchings is an award-winning author, poetess, artist advocate, and literary art wellness, coach. She is a newly appointed board member of the Enfield Culture Arts Commission. The visionary, owner, CEO, and program director of Hartford's L.I.T., as it moves into five years of bringing a Hartford Book Festival to Hartford annually and other community literary programming. Nzima is the Cultural Literary Arts Advisor of the nonprofit organization, Ujima African American Alliance in Enfield, CT. Nzima is an active member of the National Association for Poetry Therapy. In addition, she is the founder and sole owner of Every Kinda Lady Co., helping women to use writing as a healing tool from trauma. She has written several custom journals for various organizations. In addition, she is the curator, editor, and author of two bestselling poetry anthologies. (Every Kinda Lady and Her Sisters Pages 2020 and 2022). Thus, publishing over thirty women a year to share their unedited truths. As a literary artist advocate and teaching artist Nzima has facilitated and taught spoken word for social justice and writing to wellness, at Hartford's Arts Academy in partnership with ActUp Arts Theater Academy, Buckley High School, Mount Holyoke College, Toivo Wellness Center, Advocacy Unlimited, Trinity Health of New England and the Connecticut Alliances. She hosts a monthly creative writing workshop virtually. As one of the 2021 Independent Artist Fund recipients, Nzima was able to take two dozen women to a Literary Art Wellness Weekend Retreat, and launch a new seasonal magazine LAWR. Currently, Nzima is working in partnership with Elm City Lit, Possible Future Bookstore, and a team to launch the Fred Hampton Project and Poetry Contest in New Haven Connecticut, and a youth program for girls with, A Queen's Narrative, LLC of Massachusetts.
published works are on BN.com, Amazon.com, New York Writer's Coalition, Freshwater Literary Journal, Poets For Haiti, BMA, When Women Speaks
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With care, we ask that you RSVP. Space is limited.
Register through one of the following ways...
Mindbody on the Toivo website
Email [email protected]
Call/Text: 860-296-2338
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