On Writing with Walker Mettling and Jenn Morea

Join Us Wednesday, May 26th at 7pm for our final Conversation on Creative Practice with Walker Mettling and Jenn Morea: On Writing

It's the finale of the 2010 Conversation on Creative Practice series with awesome guests Walker Mettling and Jenn Morea. It's going to be a Story Night extraordinaire and a conversation that promises to be dynamic and illuminating.

About the conversationalists:

Walker is a writer and performer and independent curator in Providence. He has assembled writers, wallflowers, musicians and drawers into a number of Story Nights around this town and other ones and has also taught writing and bookmaking at 826 Valencia in San Francisco. He is a chef for a vegan restaurant project and is currently compiling several publication projects in collaboration with other writers, drawers, printers, and the USPS.

Jenn Morea is a poet, writer, and educator. She has worked as a teaching artist in the Chicago Public Schools since 1996 and has edited more than twenty-five anthologies of writing by Chicago youth, including dream in yourself (Tia Chucha Press, 1997). Jenn teaches with Project AIM at the Center for Arts Partnerships/Columbia College Chicago and with Young Chicago Authors. Her poems may be found in the online journals High Chair, Slope and Wicked Alice. She is currently at work on a number of writing projects while researching an exquisite and mysterious underground flower.

Walker and Jenn will lead the group in writing exercises both tiny and gigantic. We will get to try on their writing practices and see how the world looks from there. We will also get to work and play with an amazing helping cast of musicians, illustrators and food makers including Art Middleton, Mickey Zacchilli, Amil Byleckie and Karen, the Vegan Ice Cream Truck Lady as well as others. We will follow with a conversation between all in attendance. We hope that you will be there to help make it the best night so far.

Conversations on Creative Practice take place at New Urban Arts, 743 Westminster Street Providence, RI 02903. Events are free and open to the public. The Conversations Series is curated and hosted by Arts Mentoring Fellows, Emmy Bright and Kedrin Frias.

*New Urban Arts Conversations on Creative Practice Series is made possible through support from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rhode Island Foundation, and the RISD Office of Public Engagement.*