Free Writing and Self-Publishing Workshop

The application deadline has past for this workshop series. If you would like to hear of upcoming writing workshops, please email Jamie at munkaj@yahoo.com.

Application Deadline is February 24, 2006.

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From Performance to Print
Spoken Word, Playwriting, and Bookmaking Workshop for Artists of Color Under 30

From Performance to Print is a 10 workshop series combining spoken word, playwriting, and bookmaking. The series aims to develop writing and performance skills and then self-publish the writing in handmade books. The workshop culminates in a reading and exhibition of books called Paper Shed from Word. The workshops also aim to pass on the economic skills necessary to make a living as a spoken word artist, playwright, and / or bookmaker via conversations about submitting, publishing, producing, booking, and promoting artistic work. The series is free.

All workshops are on Tuesday nights at 6:30 PM at Booklyn in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

March 14 – Journal Making
March 21 – Our Books, Ourselves
March 28 – The Book as the Body
April 11 – The Book as a Gift
April 18 - The 5 Minute Play(erz)
April 25 - Truth, Memory, and Imagination in Playwriting
May 9 - 4th Wall Breakin'
May 16 – Computer vs. Paste Up
May 23 – Book Design
May 30 – Editioning
June 6 – Paper Shed from Word

The spoken word and playwriting workshops will be led by writers of color: Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, spoken word artist; and Andre Lancaster, playwright. The bookmaking workshops will be led by white bookmaker, Jamie Munkatchy. The workshops are designed for but not exclusive to artists of color under the age of 30 to encourage the development of artists who are typically marginalized and underrepresented in the literary, theatrical, and bookmaking fields.

Ten applicants will be selected for the workshop series: five artists between the ages of 14 and 22 and five artists between the ages of 23 and 30.

Artist Bios

Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chinese/Taiwanese American spoken word artist who strengthens cultural pride and survival through how she lives and how she spits. She has been featured at over 125 performances across the country including venues like the Nuyorican Poets Café, the House of Blues, the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and two seasons of “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.” Splitting her homes between Chicago and New York, Kelly also tours nationally with Mango Tribe and “We Got Issues!” She is the author of two chapbooks Inside Outside Outside Inside and Thought Crimes. Her first full-length play, “Murder the Machine.” will be excerpted at Chicago’s first Hip Hop Theater Festival in Spring 2006. More about Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai.

/playwright/rebel Andre Lancaster creates imaginative theatre that presents worldvisions where theatre is healing, healing is art, and art is resistance. In 2004 Descendants of Freedom: a futuristic queer hip hop odyssey [descendantsoffreedom.info} premiered at Brooklyn’s BRIC Studio, Sputnik Bar+Lounge, and SoHo’s Queer@HERE Theatre Festival. Selected into Columbia University’s Our Word Playwriting Workshop in Spring 2005. He has facilitated his playwriting workshop - I am a Writer - for a local group of writers in Brooklyn and at the Sadie Nash Leadership Project.

Jamie Munkatchy is a bookmaker and teacher. To pay the bills she does the accounting at Booklyn. She makes handmade books under the press names: Jim and Betty Books and White Chocolate Blunt Press. She published two editions of Andre Lancaster’s descendants of Freedom and an artists’ edition of Consensual Genocide by poet Leah Piepzna-Samarsinha. She currently runs the Open Studio, a labor exchange, at Booklyn.

Application Deadline is February 24, 2006.

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If you need hard copies of the application or have trouble downloading the application, please call Jamie at 718-383-9621. Send completed applications via email to munkaj@gmail.com or by mail to:

Booklyn
37 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222

This workshop is partially funded by a Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Regrant administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

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