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12-19-2002, 11:14 AM
Are you an API writer and/or arts organizer interested in participating in a fast-growing API community-based literary arts organization? If so, please read the information below on how to be considered for participation in the next Wide Eyed Workshops Creative Writing Series, entitled "EXPLORING LOS ANGELES: ASIAN AMERICAN STYLE".
Exploring Los Angeles: Asian American Style, February 1-March 8, 2003
Los Angeles is well known for being a hotbed of diversity. We live in an area rich with different cultures, traditions, rituals, histories, and experiences. All this makes Los Angeles a great source of inspiration for writers-and especially for API writers!
WEW presents this challenge to you: How are you an L.A. writer? Or, how is L.A. a source of inspiration for your writing? What better way to answer the call to this challenge than to explore and experience-to taste, see, smell, hear, and touch-various parts of Asian America L.A.?
From February 1-March 8, 2003, Wide Eyed Workshops will hold 6 four-hour weekly writing tours, during which we will meet in Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Koreatown, Monterey Park, Thaitown, and Pilipino Town to do writing exercises, share our work, and give/receive feedback on the writings. We will take a moment to absorb what L.A. has to offer and to reflect on and learn more about our Asian American communities, while trying to incorporate our experiences into our writing. Join us as we set out to explore Los Angeles-Asian American style!
Upon completion of the series, participants will be asked to submit writings for consideration to be included in WEW's chapbook series, published every other year, as well as submit writings to be posted on WEW's web/chapbook: http//www.wideeyedworkshops.org (currently under construction).
For participants selected for the series, there is a $10 nonrefundable participation fee, to be paid at the first session, and expenses accrued during the series (food, transportation, etc.) are the responsibility of individual participants and are not covered by WEW.
Interested?
Please send a writing sample and a one- to two-page statement of purpose on your writing experiences, interests and background, why you would like to be part of the series, and what you would like to achieve. Participation is limited, so send your application today. E-mail or mail your application to:
Brandy Liên Worrall, Associate Editor
Amerasia Journal
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
3230 Campbell Hall
Box 951546
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546
brandy22@ucla.edu
Deadline for applications is January 11, 2003. Those selected to participate in the series will be notified of acceptance on January 15, 2003.
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Wide Eyed Workshops Mission Statement
Wide Eyed Workshops (WEW) supports new, beginning, and emerging Asian American and Pacific Islander writers and artists in the Los Angeles/Southern California area. WEW provides a creative, comfortable, and collaborative space for those API writers/artists interested in learning how to develop and share their work. WEW's diverse workshops series, events, guest speakers, and publications give API writers/artists many opportunities for collaboration with and exposure to other arts communities, organizations, and audiences around the Southern California area. As part of their mission to maintain collaboration with other communities and organizations and to introduce new, beginning, and emerging writers/artists to these communities and organizations, WEW writers/artists work to initiate and facilitate a bridge between the API arts community, community and non-profit organizations, and Asian American Studies.
The name "Wide Eyed" is twofold: it denotes the enthusiasm, energy, and creativity that led to the creation of this workshop-the same enthusiasm, energy, and creativity that all participants of the workshop bring to each series, as vibrant and passionate API writers/artists who want to become part of a supportive and collaborative community. The name "Wide Eyed" also acts to debunk stereotypes of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders-as "slanty-eyed" Ching-Chong-Chinamen/Fu Manchus and Dragon Ladies/Lotus Blossoms who are silent, quiet, diminutive, submissive, conniving, sneaky, inscrutable, all-lookalike spies/whores. WEW writers/artists are creative, diverse, and multifaceted individuals with countless varying backgrounds who all have the power to speak up for themselves and express their creative beings, while working in collaboration with their brothers and sisters of color to create an empowering space for belonging.
Exploring Los Angeles: Asian American Style, February 1-March 8, 2003
Los Angeles is well known for being a hotbed of diversity. We live in an area rich with different cultures, traditions, rituals, histories, and experiences. All this makes Los Angeles a great source of inspiration for writers-and especially for API writers!
WEW presents this challenge to you: How are you an L.A. writer? Or, how is L.A. a source of inspiration for your writing? What better way to answer the call to this challenge than to explore and experience-to taste, see, smell, hear, and touch-various parts of Asian America L.A.?
From February 1-March 8, 2003, Wide Eyed Workshops will hold 6 four-hour weekly writing tours, during which we will meet in Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Koreatown, Monterey Park, Thaitown, and Pilipino Town to do writing exercises, share our work, and give/receive feedback on the writings. We will take a moment to absorb what L.A. has to offer and to reflect on and learn more about our Asian American communities, while trying to incorporate our experiences into our writing. Join us as we set out to explore Los Angeles-Asian American style!
Upon completion of the series, participants will be asked to submit writings for consideration to be included in WEW's chapbook series, published every other year, as well as submit writings to be posted on WEW's web/chapbook: http//www.wideeyedworkshops.org (currently under construction).
For participants selected for the series, there is a $10 nonrefundable participation fee, to be paid at the first session, and expenses accrued during the series (food, transportation, etc.) are the responsibility of individual participants and are not covered by WEW.
Interested?
Please send a writing sample and a one- to two-page statement of purpose on your writing experiences, interests and background, why you would like to be part of the series, and what you would like to achieve. Participation is limited, so send your application today. E-mail or mail your application to:
Brandy Liên Worrall, Associate Editor
Amerasia Journal
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
3230 Campbell Hall
Box 951546
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546
brandy22@ucla.edu
Deadline for applications is January 11, 2003. Those selected to participate in the series will be notified of acceptance on January 15, 2003.
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Wide Eyed Workshops Mission Statement
Wide Eyed Workshops (WEW) supports new, beginning, and emerging Asian American and Pacific Islander writers and artists in the Los Angeles/Southern California area. WEW provides a creative, comfortable, and collaborative space for those API writers/artists interested in learning how to develop and share their work. WEW's diverse workshops series, events, guest speakers, and publications give API writers/artists many opportunities for collaboration with and exposure to other arts communities, organizations, and audiences around the Southern California area. As part of their mission to maintain collaboration with other communities and organizations and to introduce new, beginning, and emerging writers/artists to these communities and organizations, WEW writers/artists work to initiate and facilitate a bridge between the API arts community, community and non-profit organizations, and Asian American Studies.
The name "Wide Eyed" is twofold: it denotes the enthusiasm, energy, and creativity that led to the creation of this workshop-the same enthusiasm, energy, and creativity that all participants of the workshop bring to each series, as vibrant and passionate API writers/artists who want to become part of a supportive and collaborative community. The name "Wide Eyed" also acts to debunk stereotypes of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders-as "slanty-eyed" Ching-Chong-Chinamen/Fu Manchus and Dragon Ladies/Lotus Blossoms who are silent, quiet, diminutive, submissive, conniving, sneaky, inscrutable, all-lookalike spies/whores. WEW writers/artists are creative, diverse, and multifaceted individuals with countless varying backgrounds who all have the power to speak up for themselves and express their creative beings, while working in collaboration with their brothers and sisters of color to create an empowering space for belonging.