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RESTOR(Y)ATION: ORCA POESIS<\/h2>\nECO-WRITING WORKSHOP TAUGHT BY MIRANDA MELLIS<\/h3>\n
Writing about the ecological \u201crestor(y)ation\u201d of Orca and Salmon, from a poetic and scientific perspective.<\/strong> Writer Miranda Mellis designed this half-day generative workshop to give writers the opportunity to explore how imaginative and contemplative writing can contribute to the co-recovery of orca and salmon in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Date: Saturday, November 28, 2020<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Time: 12-4 pm Pacific Standard Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n ONLINE via ZOOM<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fee $55<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Open to writers of all genres & skill levels<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n From instructor Miranda Mellis<\/em><\/p>\n Creation stories such as the Sumerian story of the beginning of the world involve floods, fragmentations of divine bodies, a world wrought from catastrophe. In all manner of times and places stories and poems have helped people to be attuned and responsive to local ecological contingencies as well as those operant at a planetary magnitude.<\/p>\n In order to\u00a0resiliently\u00a0re\/story<\/em>,\u00a0re\/mediate<\/em>, and\u00a0re\/pair\u00a0<\/em>damaged\u00a0ecological, social, and political life we may benefit from taking time for practices of creative, empathetic and intuitive restor(y)ation<\/em> animated by respect and gratitude for life forms, near and far, in all their incommensurability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A redaction\/text-by-erasure of the Co-Chair Letter of Transmittal from the final report of the Orca Task Force. By Sophia McLain<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In this experiential, interactive eco-writing workshop, we will learn about the current existential challenges faced by Orca due to anthropogenic pressures, and then use imaginative and contemplative writing to \u201cthink our way into the beings of others\u201d, as novelist and animal rights advocate J.M. Coetzee puts it.<\/p>\n All you need to participate is internet access, a notebook, & a good writing utensil!<\/p>\n Participants will also be invited to submit work – and submission fees waived for a new exhibit on Orca and Salmon Co-Recovery planned for 2021. (Details to come.)<\/p>\n The methodology for this workshop was created by Creature Conserve artists, writers, and scientists with a specific objective: to foster more interaction between us and the living creatures that inhabit the world. We hope to inspire work that is both informed by science and emotionally charged.<\/p>\n Miranda Mellis<\/strong> is the author of\u00a0Demystifications<\/em>\u00a0(Solid Objects<\/a>, 2021);\u00a0The Instead<\/em>, a book-length dialogue with Emily Abendroth (Carville Annex<\/a>, 2016);\u00a0The Quarry<\/em>\u00a0(Trafficker Press, 2013);\u00a0The Spokes<\/em>\u00a0(Solid Objects, 2012);\u00a0None of This Is Real<\/em>\u00a0(Sidebrow Press<\/a>, 2012);\u00a0Materialisms<\/em>\u00a0(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2009); and\u00a0The Revisionist<\/em>\u00a0(Calamari Press<\/a>, 2007).\u00a0Her stories and essays have appeared in various publications including\u00a0Harper\u2019s<\/em>,\u00a0The Believer<\/em>,\u00a0Conjunctions<\/em>,\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0The Kenyon Review<\/em>,\u00a0Denver Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0Fence<\/em>,\u00a0McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere. Look for her seasonal column,\u00a0The Trinocular<\/a>, at\u00a0The Believer<\/em>. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Millay Colony. She was a co-founding editor of\u00a0The Encyclopedia Project<\/a>\u00a0with Tisa Bryant and Kate Schatz and currently teaches writing, literature, and environmental humanities at\u00a0The Evergreen State College<\/a>.<\/p>\n Grace Ferrara,<\/strong> Natural Resource Management Specialist, West Coast Region, <\/em>NOAA Fisheries | U.S. Department of Commerce<\/p>\nA PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CREATURE CONSERVE AND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION.<\/em><\/h5>\n
Register here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.creatureconserve.com\/register-for-a-workshop<\/a><\/h5>\n
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