FreeVerse! presents Our Authentic Selves Youth Poetry Workshop Ft. Katytarika Bartel
Location: Community Room @ Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA 01852
Home is a feeling as much as it is a physical place. Home is something we carry with us. During Authoring Home in Your Body, we will use creative worldbuilding as a tool for joy. Through movement and expression, we will explore love, play, and intentional healing as we revisit what home can mean to us.
//// About our Feature ///
Katytarika Bartel is an artist, educator, and organizer based in Lowell, Massachusetts. Bartel is a queer Thai-American poet, photographer, and award-winning filmmaker interested in shining light on spaces of in-between.
Their work has been featured in the likes of the International Center of Photography (New York), Pao Arts Gallery (Boston), the Boston Asian American Film Festival, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and New York University. They recently published their first poetry chapbook, “how they love,” available here. Bartel is the co-founder of the Boston-based art collective, ANGRY ASIAN GIRLS, which works actively in the community to promote and uplift the narratives of APIA young folks. They are fiercely passionate about making photography more accessible in public schools, letting young people do things, and the color yellow.
/// Safer Space & Community Guidelines ///
We strive to foster a space of inclusivity and respect. We ask everyone to not bring (in no particular order) ableist, ageist, , body shaming, classist, homophobic, misogynist, misandrist, racist, transphobic, oppressive language, attitudes, and actions at the space. We look to hold ourselves and one another accountable to creating a culture in which we treat each other with consent and respect. This includes but is not limited to respecting people's physical and emotional boundaries and receiving explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing other personal boundaries. If you are disrupting our safer space we will ask you to leave.
Please reach out to Ricky Orng or Douglas Bishop with questions regarding the workshop.