OPENING FREE WRITE Welcome to Artifact Lab 4 of 8. Please begin with - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

OPENING FREE WRITE Welcome to Artifact Lab 4 of 8. Please begin with this exercise on your own and we’ll begin together at 1:08PM PST. List 2-3 protest chants that you know of or make some up. And/or list 2-3 things you might hear, see, smell, taste, feel at a protest or rally. List 2-3 sensory details — sound, sight, taste, touch, smell — that you envision for the future society we are building. These details might be from the present, from the past, from your imagination, from the words and imaginations of others.

WELCOME TO ARTIFACT LAB 4 OF 8! WORKSHOP PRINCIPLES Care for self, care for others, care for body, care for land, care toward genuine & practical freedoms & decolonizations. Set intentions upfront — for whom & for what are you showing up? Think & create with a humble, generous, & “radical intellectual openness” (Critical Ethnic Studies Collective), which is to say, CREATE CONTINGENTLY, be open to failure, rather, be open to learning through writing.

LEARNING OUTCOME To compose an artifact from an embodied spirit of protest. THE PROCESS FREE WRITE chants + sensory details/knowledge INTRODUCTION what inspires this space, this laboratory “the hurts of history” (G. Lipsitz) GUIDING TEXTS FORM free verse (8-10 lines) “I Walk in the History of My People” (Chrystos) MODEL TEXT WRITING TIME compose the artifact against a visual backdrop! SHARE share, reflect, lift each other

GUIDING TEXT Lipsitz, George. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture . University of Minnesota Press, 2001. “But at the same time, we are being ordered to forget the hurts of history, the complicated struggles and deadly rivalries out of which real history is made” (27).

FORM Free verse: 8-10 lines.

MODEL TEXT Chrystos. “I Walk in the History of My People.” This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color , 4 th edition. Edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa. SUNY Press, 2015.

WRITING TIME Against the backdrop of this protest footage, compose an 8-10 line free verse poem that mixes protest chants, protest imagery, visions for the future, and additional text or details from this workshop or from elsewhere. CITE YOUR SOURCES AS A PRAXIS OF INTELLECTUAL KINSHIP AND SOLIDARITY.

JASON MAGABO PEREZ