Pangea World Theater's Lake Street Arts! Writing Our Memory into Being

Schedule

Wed Feb 08 2023 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Pangea World Theater | Minneapolis, MN

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Pangea World Theater welcomes Anthony Ceballos and Venus DeMars for a creative writing workshop in creative nonfiction and poetry.
About this Event
Pangea World Theater's Lake Street Arts! Writing Our Memory into BeingWriting Workshop with Anthony Ceballos and Venus DeMars
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This workshop is part of Pangea World Theater's Lake Street Arts! 2023 Season of You Are Here, placekeeping through the arts.

Building on three years of Story Circles, this year LSA! is offering artist led workshops to tell your own epic, gorgeous stories and hidden histories in clay, writing, movement, and theater.

Anthony Ceballos and Venus DeMars will invite people into a lively discussion revolving around creative writing and the act of memory recall and excavation. Through workshop discussion, prompts, and a bit of open writing time, participants will work toward and have the opportunity to write and perform a piece of either creative nonfiction or poetry based in memory.

Expanded to 20 participants! Poets and Creative Non-Fiction writers will all work together. Any level of writing experience welcome! Bring a laptop or pen and paper to the workshop.


This is a masked event.
Pangea World Theater Covid Statement

Pangea World Theater’s COVID-19 Protocols are shaped foremost by the fact that the pandemic has disproportionately impacted the Indigenous people, Black and Brown communities, and the most vulnerable members of our circle. The following protocols are crafted with the rigor needed to protect all our relations. Our protocols do not adhere to an industry standard set by institutions that try to balance human lives against profit margins.


Please check in when you arrive. There you will find hand sanitizer and masks for your use.

Pangea World Theater requires you to wear a mask when attending our indoor gatherings and events. If you refuse to wear a mask you will be asked to leave.

If any participant is experiencing the following symptoms please stay home and get tested at the nearest testing site. All audience members will be asked the following:

Are you experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms:

  • Fever (99.5+ measured or just feeling feverish)
  • Cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • Sore throat
  • Loss of taste/smell
  • Chills
  • Headache
  • Muscle pain
  • Nasal Congestion
Thank you for protecting the most vulnerable members of our circle.
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About Venus DeMars

Venus de Mars is a multidisciplinary artist and musician, best known as a singer-songwriting transgender rock star and leader of the glam-punk trans-band Venus de Mars & All the Pretty Horses. Venus came out as transgender in 1988. A time when identifying as trans meant being classified as having a mental perversion and living as an outcast. Her refusal to live a shadow existence, instead embracing her uniqueness, complicated her musical and artistic career paths. She is now mid-process in writing a memoir reflecting her thirty-year trans journey and place in this fast-changing, trans-embracing-backlashing world where we now find ourselves.

Venus along with her wife Lynette Reini-Grandell, are also the subject of the award-winning [2004] rock-documentary Venus of Mars by filmmaker Emily Goldberg. Venus and her band are currently working on a new LP.


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About Anthony Ceballos

Anthony Ceballos is a poet, writer, and turkey sandwich enthusiast. In 2016 he was selected to be a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series mentee. His work has been featured in Yellow Medicine Review, Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride, Great River Review and elsewhere. He is a graduate from Randolph College's low residency creative writing program in Virginia. He lives, breathes and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He can be found penning staff recommendations at Birchbark Books and Native Arts.


All writing will be included in our ongoing Lake Street Arts! archive, unless you choose not to include.


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This work is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Our Town Grant.

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Pangea World Theater, 711 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, United States

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