Rise & Write: Sunrise Writing Session

Rise & Write is an opportunity to connect with yourself, your creativity, and others through generative writing exercises, guided breathing, and collective reading. Write with the rising sun and begin your day in the brightest way!

Facilitated by Natachi Mez

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Natachi seeks to nourish. She is a writer, performer, teaching artist, and emcee born and based in Sacramento, California. Through improvisation, call & response, and collective breathing, Natachi facilitates dynamic experiences that deepen audience engagement and celebrate community voice. Natachi is a two time finalist at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) and has featured at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Oberlin College, AutoMobility LA, as well as at venues in Accra, Copenhagen, and Istanbul. Natachi has worked with youth communities and people who are incarcerated to engage writing and rapping as tools of empowerment. She has facilitated writing and performance workshops at Tufts University, Rutgers University, Rikers Island, and more.

As a 2022-2023 Seeding Creativity grant recipient, Natachi produced, wrote, and performed in a live poetry and music show called Fire: Breathing in the Wild with a band of Black women artists. As a member of the Sacramento collective, All City Writers, Natachi is currently developing a one person show titled SOAK. Natachi works as a Business Program Manager, focusing on community building, communications, intercultural awareness, and design, and is almost always ready to hop into a dance circle. 

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