Events & Workshops

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This event will not be live-streamed or recorded. 

Workshop registration refund policy:

Please be certain you will be able to attend before you register. Registered participants must promptly email the SWG staff person responsible for the event (Cat Abenstein, Program Manager, swgevents@skwriter.com) to cancel their registration. Otherwise, no refunds will be issued. 

•    A full refund is available if you cancel your registration one week prior to the start of workshop (by 11:59 p.m. on January 21, 2025) 
•    A 50% refund is available if you cancel your registration less than one week and more than 48 hours before the workshop. (For cancellations between January 22 and 26 at 11:59 p.m. SK time)
•    There is no refund for registrations cancelled within 48 hours of the workshop or no-shows. (Beginning at 12:00 a.m. on January 27) 
•    If you would like to donate your registration fee to the SWG’s accessibility fund so others can attend events like this in the future, please let us know in your email. 

Accessibility Measures in this workshop

•    Live auto-captions through Zoom
•    Presenter self-descriptions
•    Limited Zoom technical support provided by SWG staff to assist participants while they’re in the Zoom meeting. 

Writing from the Body: A Pain Poetry Workshop with Cassandra Myers
 

Cassandra Myers’ Pain Poetry Writing Workshop will support us in creating new syntax for our pain. Using knowledge from Chinese and South Asian medicine, we will connect our physical symptoms with emotional insights, colours, seasons, stones, and other ephemera, all while reorienting self-blame that comes with pain towards the oppressive systems and circumstances that threaten all life and well-being. 

Workshop Facilitator

Cassandra Myers (My’z) (they/she/he) is an award-winning poet, performer, dancer, illustrator, and counsellor from Tkaronto, Ontario. As a queer, non-binary, South-Asian-Italian, crip, mad, survivor of sexual violence, Cassandra's work is cinematic and juicy with its critical anti-oppressive eye. Cassandra’s work has won national literary and spoken word titles including the National Magazine GOLD Award in Poetry and Champion of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Their work has been internationally received at the Ada Lovelace Festival in Berlin, and elsewhere. Find their poetry in ARC Poetry Magazine, Canthius, the Tahoma Literary Review, and more. 
 

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