Liminality describes the space "in-between", it is where we stand after a ritual or cultural event has occurred but before we have been transformed by the experience. In our modern world the liminal describes more than a personal interior experience, we can expect to spend decades in ambiguous political states, we can expect children to grow into adults in the thresholds created by a shifting biosphere.
Writing from within these boundary zones means we have a special sight for the past, an urgency within the present, and a magical opportunity for visualizing the future from the imaginal realms of desire.
This series of workshops will serve those who are writing irregular memoirs, fragmented poetry, collage texts, flash fiction, hybrid manuscripts, and those seeking to develop characters and landscapes to incorporate into non-traditional long fiction.
These workshops are an experiment in creative expression and human connection.
Tuesdays November 9th, 16th, 23rd
7pm to 9pm Central Standard Time
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Wk 1: We will discuss liminality as it has been described in ritual practices and its contemporary focus on abandoned physical spaces. We will view some photographs of liminal places and discuss what it means as a general condition. We will write through prompts aimed to generate a palette of spaces, objects, characters, and concepts to use as the medium of our work. We will begin our dream experiment also.
Wk 2: We will share our dream experience and some of our work from the week and also any realizations we have about ourselves or the world. This session will focus on the liminal as a state of mind and we will write through prompts that blur the line between material experience and the experience of belief and prompts that conjure connective threads to bridge thresholds and assist us as we explore further.
Wk 3: We will share about our previous week of work and share our dream experiment. We will work with prompts that create a stream of consciousness for or within the threshold space. We will create and trade liminal objects among each other and spend some time on what type of story structure (or lack thereof) gives a boundary zone a sense of anxiety or sense of purposeful emptiness.