Women's Writing Workshop with NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green

Name: Women's Writing Workshop with NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green
Start: 2025-03-22T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-22T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Dare Arts

Schedule

Sat Mar 22 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Dare Arts | Manteo, NC

North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green, will facilitate a creativity salon focused on "What We Keep Keeps Us: Exploring Our Human Museums" from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, March 22 at Dare Arts in downtown Manteo.
As we think of ourselves as our own curators or personal anthropologists, we will explore what's in our human museums and how these primary sources shape our lives, our values, and our creativity.
Workshop participants are invited to bring artifacts, photos, objects, heirlooms, or stories that hold special meaning for them. This sessions will include a writing exercise and discussion that examines the many narratives, memoirs, short stories, poems, novels, and legacies that are hidden in full sight...just waiting to be written.
Cost: $25 for Dare Arts members and $35 for non-members. Cost includes coffee + muffins, a light lunch and all supplies.
Preregistration is required. Payment must be made in advance via credit card on the Dare Arts website at DareArts.org/workshops.
Class is limited to 30 students. Class is open to women age 18+.
Instructor Bio: Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. She is a 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature. Jaki Shelton Green teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and was appointed the 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer in Residence at UNC Chapel Hill. Additionally, she received the George School Outstanding Alumni Award in 2021. Her publications include: Dead on Arrival, Masks, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, breath of the song, published by Blair Publishers. Feeding the Light, i want to undie you published by Jacar Press, i want to undie you English /Italian bilingual edition published by Lebeg Publishers. On Juneteenth 2020, she released her first LP, poetry album, The River Speaks of Thirst, produced by Soul City Sounds and Clearly Records. Jaki Shelton Green is the owner of SistaWRITE providing writing retreats for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Martha’s Vineyard, Ocracoke North Carolina, Northern Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland. For more information on Jaki, visit https://jakisheltongreen.com/about-jaki/.
Cancellation policy: Registrations cannot be transferred to future workshops. No-shows will not receive a refund. If you need to cancel for any reason, we will only refund you if we are able to fill the spot. If we are forced to reschedule/cancel the workshop for any reason, we will contact you directly about the new date or refund.
Call Dare Arts at 252 473 5558 for more information.
Dare Arts’ 50th anniversary is supported by the Outer Banks Community Foundation and the Don & Catharine Bryan Cultural Series.
This project is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources.
In 2025, Dare Arts will be commemorating its 50th anniversary by celebrating their past, present, and future. Dare Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization dedicated to encouraging the arts in Dare County through advocacy, enrichment, and opportunity.