Upcoming Kundiman Events:
Writing with the Family Archives
with Carolina Ebeid
Wednesday, July 20th
6:00 PM—9:00 PM ET
This event is cosponsored by Kundiman and CantoMundo.
VHS tapes, recipes, birth and immunization records, letters, heirlooms, passports, a shoebox of photographs — these are among the tangible artifacts that make up the family archive. Amid the tangible, we recognize the intangible and ephemeral matter, such as oral histories, songs, missing records, objects lost in migration now only filed in memory. How do we open a creative space for these often undervalued inventories? In this hybrid workshop, we will consider this question by engaging the work of multimedia writers such as Mary-Kim Arnold and Diana Khoi Nguyen, and by experimenting with the familial materials that we’ve gathered, how to bring these documents and objects into our writing, and how to write into the empty gaps of what’s absent from the archive. Together we will spend part of the time viewing and discussing the selected examples, responding to generative writing prompts, and sharing what we create. Please have at least two artifacts with you (photo, object, document, etc) as you will think and write alongside them.
eligibility:
This craft class is open to all writers of color. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This class will be held over Zoom. There is one scholarship spot available, and the applications are open through Wednesday, June 29th.
Registration for this class is now closed.
FACULTY:
Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet interested in the cross-sections of video art and hybrid texts. Her first book You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior was published by Noemi Press as part of the Akrilica Series, and selected as one of ten best debuts by Poets & Writers. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, Bread Loaf, CantoMundo, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. Her current work explores the personal story of her family’s exilic and immigrant experience, the idea of home as an elsewhere, and the telepathic power of objects within the diasporas of Palestine and Cuba. The project also considers the films of Cuban-born Ana Mendieta and the funerary rituals therein. She is on faculty at the Mile-High MFA at Regis University and Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in Denver where she co-directs The Poetry Collective, a year-long manuscript seminar. A longtime editor, she currently edits poetry at The Rumpus, as well as the multimedia zine Visible Binary.