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DESCRIPTION:March 28\nIWL Opening Night\n\nThe Intergenerational Writers lab: 
 Traversing the literary unexpected\n\nA collaboration of Kearny Street 
 Workshop, Intersection for the Arts, and Galería de la Raza\n\nJoin Kearny 
 Street Workshop, Galería de la Raza, and Intersection for the Arts for the 
 opening night of the 4th annual 2007 Intergenerational Writers Lab, a 
 literary program to explore multiple forms of creative expression and 
 generate new work. The program features three months of workshops led by 
 seven lead artists, and four public readings and performances.\n\nThe first 
 public IWL 2007 event is on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007, at Kearny Street 
 Workshop, and features readings and performances from travel writer and 
 essayist Linda Watanabe McFerrin, poet Mahru Elahi, and four of the twelve 
 IWL workshop participants.\n\nDate: Wednesday, March 28th\n\nTime: 
 7pm\n\nLocation: KSW's space180, 180 capp street, @ 17th street, san 
 francisco\n\nCost: $7 - 15 sliding scale.\n\nThe 2007 Intergenerational 
 Writers Lab is supported by a grant from the Irvine Foundation.\nAbout the 
 artists\n\nMahru Elahi returned to California in 2003, after years of 
 teaching in New York City public schools.  She currently  works as an 
 artist-in-residence for WritersCorps, a project of the San Francisco Arts 
 Commission. Since relocating to the Bay Area, she has performed at 
 Intersection for the Arts, La Pena Cultural Center, California College of 
 the Arts, University of San Francisco, and Jon  Sims Center for the Arts.  
 Mahru was awarded a 2006 residency from  the Hedgebrook 
 Writers-In-Residence Program and participated in the  Voices of Our Nations 
 Writing Workshop, where she studied poetry with  Ruth Forman.  Her writing 
 has appeared in many publications, and  she is author of a graphic novel, 
 The Thorn Garden. Mahru’s  poetry is featured in the 2006 anthology, Let 
 Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian 
 Diaspora.  She is a  graduate of UC Santa Cruz, and earnersity in Ned her 
 Masters of Science in  Teaching from New School Univew York City.\n\nPoet, 
 travel writer, novelist and workshop leader Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a 
 contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and 
 online publications including the Washington Post, the New York Times, the 
 San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Modern Bride, Travelers' Tales, and 
 Salon.com. She is the author of two poetry collections and the editor of 
 the 4th edition of Best Places Northern California. A winner of the 
 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, her work has also appeared in Wild 
 Places and American Fiction. Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber was published 
 by Coffee House Press and named a Best Book for the Teen-Age by the New 
 York Public Library. Her collection of award-winning short stories, The 
 Hand of Buddha, was published in 2000. She is also a contributor and 
 publishing partner in Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel and 
 editor, with Laurie McAndish King, of Hot Flashes: sexy little stories and 
 poems. Linda has served as a judge for the San Francisco Literary Awards, 
 the Kiriyama Prize the Josphine Miles Awards for Literary Excellence and as 
 a Loft Mentor. She is currently at work on novel set all over the globe. 
 For additional information, go to: www.lwmcferrin.com\n\n\nThe 4th 
 Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL)  2007 is a unique program with three of 
 SF’s oldest arts organizations that challenges writers to thoroughly 
 explore and develop writing. The IWL 2007 program takes place March 10 – 
 July 11, 2007, and features workshops, public readings, and a chapbook 
 publication.  IWL workshops are led by playwrights Octavio Solis and Prince 
 Gomolvilas, essayist and critic Thy Tran, poets Genny Lim and Mahru Elahi, 
 novelist and travel writer Linda Watanabe McFerrin, and poet & performer 
 Uchechi Kalu.\n\nThe goals of the IWL program include the following:\n\n1)  
  to provide twelve local emerging writers with the opportunity to 
 challenge, develop, and expand their writing by working with emerging and 
 established writers in a variety of genres;\n 2)   to contribute to the 
 development of new literary forms and language that incorporate multiple 
 forms of creative expression;\n 3)   to provide emerging writers with the 
 opportunity to connect and work with each other and with established 
 writers in the literary world;\n 4)   to provide the community with an 
 opportunity to engage with new work and new explorations of form and 
 language;\n 5)   to contribute to the wealth of independent literary 
 publications by publishing a new chapbook from KSW Press, Galería de la 
 Raza, & Intersection for the Arts that highlights work by exciting new 
 writers committed to exploring new forms and voices..\nAbout the 
 Collaborating Organizations\n\nKearny Street Workshop is a 
 multidisciplinary arts organization based in San Francisco's Mission 
 District at KSW's exhibition and arts events space, space180. The mission 
 of Kearny Street Workshop is to produce and present art that enriches and 
 empowers Asian Pacific American communities. Our vision is to achieve a 
 more just society by connecting Asian Pacific American(APA) artists with 
 community members to give voice to our cultural, historical, and 
 contemporary issues. For more information please visit 
 www.kearnystreet.org.\n\nGalería De La Raza is an interdisciplinary space 
 for art, thought and activism – Galería organizes cutting-edge art 
 exhibitions, as well as multimedia presentations, performances and 
 spoken-word events, screenings, computer-generated murals and educational 
 activities. The Mission of the Galeria de la Raza is to foster public 
 awareness and appreciation of Chicano/Latino art and culture. For more 
 information please visit www.galeriadelaraza.org\n\nIntersection for the 
 Arts is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space (est. 1965) and has a 
 long history of presenting new and experimental work in the fields of 
 literature, theater, music, dance and the visual arts, and also in 
 nurturing and supporting the Bay Area's cultural community through service, 
 technical support, and mentorship programs. Intersection provides a place 
 where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists, and audiences can 
 intersect one another. For more information please visit 
 www.theintersection.org\n\nLinda wantnabe Mc Ferrin and Mahru Elahi\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/22/18381664.php
SUMMARY:The literacy Unexpected: Linda Watanabe Mc Ferrin and Mahru Elahi
LOCATION:KSW's space180, 180 capp street, @ 17th street, san francisco
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