Towards an Earth Amplitude: writing and movement workshop with poet Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Earth Writing: Towards an Earth Amplitude (2 hours) $30 (sliding scale available. NOTAFLOF). All proceeds go to NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT. Writing and movement workshop; inclusive for people of all mobilities. Age: 18+ … we will explore themes of climate catastrophe and grief. This somatic writing workshop invites participants to expand their planetary attention through an intentional encounter with gravity. In Dark Ecology, ecological philosopher Timothy Morton calls upon us to expand our imaginations to achieve a more radically ecological standpoint: one that operates “at a scale sufficient to open the concept Earth to full amplitude.” This writing and movement workshop will explore what approaching earth amplitude might require and catalyze in our creative practices and daily lives. I’ll share what I have gleaned from evolving an ecological creative practice that explored human displacement and resilience in the subarctic landscapes of Iceland, Norway, and the Faroe Islands, the grasslands of North America and southern Australia, and urban “blight”/rapid gentrification in Philadelphia and Denver. We’ll engage in a sequence of experiential mindful immersions, reflective writing exercises, and group discussions designed to help us align resonantly to the beautifully populated, vast, massive fuzziness that is our planet. Participants will be asked to bring: °Writing tools (paper, pen, smart phones or tablets) °Yoga mats, blankets, or bolsters to lay on (if desired) °Comfortable clothes including socks (no shoes for this workshop) °Eye masks or bandanas   Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. Raised by immigrant Korean war survivors and orphans, she currently lives in Denver, Colorado. She’s published five poetry books, including Solar Maximum (Futurepoem Book Prize), No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (Kore Press), and Aerial Concave Without Cloud (Nightboat). She was a Pew Fellow in the Arts for Poetry in 2013, and has been awarded arts residencies in the US and internationally in poetry, video art, and dance. She has published numerous essays on Asian American writing and contemporary US experimental poetry, most recently offering commentary for the Getty Museum’s podcast series Intimate Addresses on Nam June Paik. She founded and ran Corollary Press, a chapbook series dedicated to experimental multi-ethnic writing, from 2006-2016. Her video, performance, and installation art have been presented at The Blaffer Museum of Art (TX), Leon Gallery (CO), The Asian Arts Initiative (PA), Artworks Center for Contemporary Art (CO), Chicago’s IN>TIME Performance Art Festival (IL), and Georgia Gallery (CO).Her interests include diaspora, ecology, and human perception. Find her at silentbroadcast.com.