Thursdays on the Stoop is a series of free, virtual writing workshops led for and by our community members. With topics ranging from generative prompts to editing strategies, these informal workshops are sure to shake up your Thursday routine. RSVP below to get the link.
Join Sisi Reid of Soul Shine Theater Garden for one hour of writing and movement exercises inspired by Lucille Clifton’s poem “won’t you celebrate with me”. This workshop is an invitation to pause and reflect on what you’ve made it through. This workshop is an invitation to make space for joy — joy not absent of grief, heartache, and tragedy but alongside and despite these experiences. Participants will use embodied storytelling, movement tableaus, and writing exercises to tap into the complexities of celebration.
Sisi SoulShine (she/they) is a touring multidisciplinary writer and theater artist from Norfolk, Virginia and Wheaton, Maryland who practices theater as tools for collective liberation, healing, and youth empowerment. Sisi’s art is grounded in the values of justice, community building, and education instilled by her family. Sisi is an actor, writer, playwright, dancer, director, spoken word poet, Emcee, facilitator, teaching artist, educator (including English language arts) and an applied theater practitioner. Sisi is a graduate of University of Maryland and The Theater Lab’s Life Story Institute. They’ve taught (poetry, playwriting, acting, and devising) and performed in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, Colombia, London, and Brazil. They’ve facilitated theater workshops in prisons with University of Michigan’s Prison Creative Arts Project, Voices Unbarred, and University of Rio's Theater in Prison program. Sisi continually curates and facilitates joyFULL spaces that are Black, queer, and abundant. She is the founder and artistic director of Soul Shine Theater Garden, a dance-theater organization that illuminates joy by practicing storytelling, dance- theater, creative healing arts, and Black Afro-Indigenous cultural technologies in order to guide people in embodying their joy in spaces to be in connection to nature. @sisisoulshine @soulshinetheatergarden www.sisireid.com