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DESCRIPTION:Lost and Found: A Weekend Writing Intensive\nwith Minal 
 Hajratwala\n\nOctober 3-4, 10:00am - 2:00pm\nKSW @ PariSoMa, 1436 Howard 
 Street\n\nPireeniSpend a fun weekend playing the writer’s equivalent of 
 “hide and seek”! At the heart of all writing is the desire to recover 
 what has been lost: a magical talisman, our childhood innocence, the one 
 great love, personal and communal histories. On Day 1 we will write deep 
 into the experience of being and getting “lost," freewriting with a range 
 of inspirations and prompts from Pablo Neruda to Tracy Chapman and more. On 
 Day 2, we’ll get “found”: We will play with found objects, invent 
 memories, and discover unknown truths. As we write and share work in class, 
 we’ll experience how writing can help us come to terms with what’s lost 
 and find our right to own and tell our stories. This two-day writing 
 intensive is guaranteed to help you generate new work, break through 
 blocks, and excavate new depths of emotion, power, and voice. All levels 
 and genres of writing are welcome; we will work with exercises that you can 
 use in your own ongoing project(s) or to create entirely new 
 pieces.\n\nAbout the instructor: Minal Hajratwala dug up the stories of her 
 family from mythological time to the present in order to write her 
 narrative nonfiction book, Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five 
 Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), which has 
 been called “incomparable” by Alice Walker and “searingly honest” 
 by the Washington Post. She is a writer, performer, poet, and queer 
 activist based in San Francisco, where she was born before being whisked 
 off to be raised in New Zealand and suburban Michigan. She spent seven 
 years researching and writing the book, traveling the world to interview 
 more than seventy-five members of her extended family. Her creative work 
 has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and theater spaces, and has 
 received recognition and support from the Sundance Institute, the Jon Sims 
 Center for the Arts, the SerpentSource Foundation, and the Hedgebrook 
 writing retreat for women, where she currently serves on the Alumnae 
 Leadership Council. Her one-woman show, “Avatars: Gods for a New 
 Millennium,” was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco 
 for World AIDS Day in 1999. As a journalist, she worked at the San Jose 
 Mercury News for eight years, was a board member of the National Lesbian & 
 Gay Journalists Association, and was a National Arts Journalism Program 
 fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000-01. 
 She is a graduate of Stanford University.\n\nRegistration fee is $80. To 
 register by check, please send check or money order to: Kearny Street 
 Workshop, PO Box 14545, San Francisco, CA 94114-0545. Or pay online at 
 www.kearnystreet.org. Please include your full name and contact info.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/30/18623955.php
SUMMARY:Lost and Found: A Weekend Writing Intensive with Minal Hajratwala
LOCATION:KSW @ PariSoMa, 1436 Howard Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/30/18623955.php
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