October 7, 2024
Memoir Workshop for Seniors: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge *FULL
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October 7, 2024
Memoir Workshop for Seniors: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge
(All levels)
In person at the Janet Goeske Center (Art Room), 5257 Sierra Street, Riverside, 1:00-3:00 PM.
Class size is limited. Seniors only.
*This workshop is full. No new registrations will be accepted at this time.
Writers are encouraged to respond to prompts about universal themes related to the human condition: key relationships, physical places, historic events, personal hardships/recovery, love and loss, and personal achievement and development. These ties bind us all in different stages of our lives, and each of us brings a unique perspective to every story. Maybe it's time to write yours. Space is limited.
Rose Y. Monge has facilitated memoir classes at the Goeske Center since 2009. She encourages everyone to leave a written legacy for future generations. As an immigrant from Mexico, her memoir honors her parents’ legacy of life lessons. Her activism since retirement has been advocating for social justice, diversity, and inclusion.
Honoring Our Ancestors with James Coats
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October 7, 2024
Honoring Our Ancestors with James Coats
(All Levels)
Alternating Mondays, 9/9, 9/23, 10/7, and 10/21, 6:30-8:30 PM PT, on Zoom, plus Saturday, 11/2, in person at White Park, Riverside.
White Park time to be determined.
$50. Registration required. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Fall2024CWW
Honoring Our Ancestors is a workshop designed to celebrate loved ones we have lost. We will be writing elegy and celebration of life pieces as well as learning performance skills. The workshop will culminate with a reading/performance at this year’s Day of the Dead event on Saturday, November 2 at White Park in Riverside.
James Coats is a poet, performer, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. You can take a poetry workshop with him through his organization Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts an award-winning workshop monthly called Be the Change. He is the author of four poetry collections. His most recent is Midnight & Mad Dreams.