Description
Welcome to Button University!
Storytelling for the Start of the World with FreeQuency
Although we occupy the same planet, there are many many worlds within and upon our Earth. It can be argued that each of us is a world into our own. Global catastrophes like COVID 19 tend to make people focus on the negative aspects of world endings forgetting that some worlds should end or should never have existed in the first place.
As Arundati Roy said – this pandemic is a portal. This begs the question, a portal to what? What roles do artists, poets & storytellers play in world building? What worlds can our words help us imagine that were previously named impossible by other’s words? Rooted in the belief that “Words Create Worlds”, this social justice storytelling workshop will ask participants to engage in radical imagination and ideation as we write poems about the world(s) we want to dismantle, organize towards and be.
FreeQuency is the author of (On |Un-)Becoming: Poems
Pick your class day and time:
Sundays in March & April
2:00pm CT | March 16 – April 13, 2025
Class Duration: 2 hours via Zoom
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About FreeQuency
Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa is a Kenyan, Immigrant, Shoga|Queer storyteller, speaker & feeler. The 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, a 2017 TEDWomen speaker and ranked 3rd at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam, FreeQuency is a… MORE
