Welcome
We host workshops that challenge pervasive narratives and encourage creative vision towards a more just and humane society. Some of our workshops are featured below:
workshops
Poetry as visionary resistance
Shifting dominant pervasive narratives, one poetic tool at a time
What you will learn
In this workshop, you will learn how to identify pervasive, negative narratives that challenge you, and how to leverage poetic tools to narrate an alternative vision. Participants will be provided with a zine to continue their poetic journey,
the poetics of making public comment
How to identify and challenge social and political issues that matter to you.
What you will learn
In this workshop, participants will learn how to identify social and political issues that matter to you and turn them into statements and demands for written and public comment. Participants will also learn how to sharpen your public speaking skills. Participants will be provided a zine to continue on their journey to sharpen their political voice and vision.
towards co-liberation
Shifting the culture of anti-racism organizing
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
This workshop supports participants with identifying the steps and tools they need to journey from optional ally-ship towards collective liberation.
SURVEILLANCE AIN'T SAFETY
When the journey to be seen gets you watched instead
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
"Surveillance Ain't Safety," a phrase coined by Tawana Petty over a decade ago, weaves throughout this workshop, making connections between disaster capitalism, racial capitalism and surveillance capitalism to paint a clear picture of how the trio of trauma is still quietly remaking the Motor City, even as the global narrative touts a "comeback."