San Diego Book Arts Meeting (Online)

Schedule: Jun 9, 2021 — 10am - 12pm (PT);
11am - 1pm (MT); 12pm - 2pm (CT); 1pm - 3pm (ET);
RSVP HERE to receive the zoom information for the meeting

If you have any problems during the meeting or cannot get in, please text Laurel at 619-300-9322 as she will NOT be checking email during the meeting.

• Free and Open to all - Members and Non-members!

  Me, Myself and I: Memoir and the Narrative Self
  “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” —Joan Didion

We are our most trusted source of material when it comes to writing and art-making. What do you notice? What memories and life events do you turn over in your mind? What story have you wanted to tell from your life, your noticing? How could you convey this narrative with language and images in book form?

In this workshop we will write in response to prompts and images to dive into our inner narratives. We will use memory as a kind of malleable substance to shape and develop for our books. We will write and share with others before editing our material into a single sheet mock-up book.

Artist Bio: Jane Sprague is a writer, publisher and educator whose books include The Port of Los Angeles (Chax P), Imaginary Syllabi (Palm P) and various chapbooks. Her poetry was most recently published in The Chicago Review. She edited and published Palm Press for ten years while working as a Lecturer in English at CSULB and an Associate Faculty member at Bard College in NY. She was a Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center’s Institute for the Arts in Education in upstate New York (Pre-K-12) for a decade and has taught writing and book arts workshops at a maximum-security prison for women, nursing homes and elsewhere for people whose voices are often left out, silenced or unheard. She lives in Long Beach, California wedged between the former tribal lands of the Tongva nation and the ports of Long Beach and L.A.

We will start the meeting promptly at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, so please sign on a few minutes before 10:00 a.m. to work out any kinks in your system.

Their website: https://www.sandiegobookarts.com/about
Demos from previous meetings: https://www.sandiegobookarts.com/virtual-demos