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Philly Lingo: Speaking Our Tongues, Sharp and Sweet Workshop

June 1 @ 2:00 pm5:00 pm

Come and join us in a plurilingual workshop

Where all the languages in your head are welcome. We will listen to each other, share words and ideas, read and make poems. This workshop will explore the crossing of borders both linguistic and political and the spaces between, rooted in a trauma informed, anti-racist pedagogy and will be facilitated by:

Carole Metellus is a Haitian-American writer, cultural worker long-time activist starting with Indigenous rights, to Women’s, GLBTQ, immigration, and peace and justice issues, she manifests her passion currently in her writing. Fióna Bolger is an Irish poet, mentor and creative facilitator, author of Love in the Original Language and a compound of word. Her facilitation and creative practice are polyvocal, plurilingual and co-operative. She welcomes all languages and works to create language sharing, poetry making spaces.  Free and open to Everyone

 

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Date:
June 1
Time:
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Organizer

Moonstone Arts Center
Phone
215-735-9600
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Venue

Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA United States
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Phone
215.928.8118
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