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Playlist Writing Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Dana Venerable Workshops & Events

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Playlist Writing

This workshop explores the relationships we have to our favorite music as well as to the art form of making playlists. Writers will make their own playlists of up to 10 favorite tracks (minimum of 5) using Spotify or YouTube. While listening, they will observe what resonates about their combination (or rather curation) of favorite songs—instrumentation / sounds, lyrics, memories, messages / symbols, plot, themes, etc.—and let their thoughts wander through writing lines. For example, writers can work from one lyric line and imagine a short story or write about its influence within their life. Writers are encouraged to use the duration of the playlist to free write as much as what comes to mind as possible.

Where:

Online Workshop

When:
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 @ 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

To register – email Writing Center Coordinator, Robin Jordan at rjordan@justbuffalo.org.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 8 participants.


Dana VenerableAbout the Teaching Artist

Dana Venerable is a writer, educator, co-editor of P-QUEUE journal, and a UB English PhD candidate living in Buffalo, NY. Her research highlights how marginalized communities resist against the archive/record, while (re)inserting themselves within it. Dana has performed within artist collectives at UB Arts Collaboratory, PLAY/GROUND, and UB’s MFA Dance Concert. She has written for The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, P-QUEUE, VIDA Review, Snail Trail Press and Zoomoozophone Review.