Express, connect, and locate resources for mental wellness – join us November 20th!
Are you a Black Nova Scotian aged 16+?
Do you have an experience, point of view, or story of mental health, mental illness/ Madness/ addiction, and/or mental health care that you’d like to share in poetry?
On November 20th from 7-9pm, we’re holding a virtual event for Black writers called Mental Health Selfie Poems co-facilitated by Anna Quon and Asiah Sparks. The workshop was created by HRM Poet Laureate, Anna Quon, to help inspire and encourage participating writers to create poems around their feelings, experience and/or perspectives on mental health, mental illness or Madness, and mental health care.
In this two-hour workshop we will:
- Explore our voices through free writing
- Create or begin an original poem
- Share and talk about our writing in a supportive space
- Learn about the Poet Laureate Mental Health Poem Project
- Share mental health resources for Black community
This workshop is a safe container to work and play with words, express ideas, and create meaning from our lived experience. Bring a poem, share a poem, write a poem.
Registration is free!
If you have questions or need support, email us programs@dbdli.ca
