Facilitator: Meredith Quartermain

Duration: Sunday Sept 19, 2010  1-5 pm

Capacity: 12 participants

Dozens of cultural fictions write themselves into our sense of self and social being. Indeed, each word opens many channels to webs of interrelated stories, metanarratives or discourses that shape our possibilities of speech. How can we resist being blindly colonized by these? How can we exploit fractures and gaps between them, to mark them, to turn them inside out? How to inhabit them rebelliously?

This workshop will explore how elements of fiction such as character, action, or dialogue can be morphed, torqued, and trans-elated into cross-genre serious poetic fun, how story can erupt into play in both senses. During the workshop participants will invent, tangle, rend, splice, dramatize, interrogate and share their texts.