Join us in Cambridge for an embodied creative writing workshop all about love. Open to everyone.
About this Event
Zine-Making: Crafting Love As A Way of Knowing
Morning session (Linh) 10:00-12:30
Reflect and diffract four facets within the experience of loving: sensations of love, queer love, the inner child, and heartbreak. Come away with a deeper understanding of fragmentation as a rebellious writing practice in zine-making and learn about how love and lived realities intersect with epistemology and academia.
Linh S. Nguyễn is a HarperCollins children’s author and PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on love and storytelling as decolonial epistemology. Linh completed her H.B.A. in English, Writing & Rhetoric, and Creative Expression & Society at the University of Toronto and her MPhil in Arts, Creativity and Education at Cambridge.
Body/Story-making: Embodying a Story of Hugging and Love
Afternoon session (Yuanting) 13:30-16:00
What will we do in this workshop?
It is a bit hard to explain.
You will write, of course.
You will dance, or to put it less seriously, you will move your body.
You will hug, but not just using your arms – it will happen in many different ways that transcends your wildest imagination.
You will laugh. You might cry. Whatever it is, the most important thing is, you will FEEL.
Feel your body, feel the space, feel what it tries to tell you.
You will embark on an embodied journey to love and yourself through the lens of hugging.
You might already have an idea for a story? Nice. Let’s take it further, deeper.
You have no idea what you are looking for? Great. Let’s explore, together.
The stories you are about to write are always there,
in your body, in in-betweenness, in you and me.
Yuanting Qiu is a Cambridge Trust Scholar as a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Also a non-fiction writer, life-writing tutor, street dancer, with other identities still progressing and flowing. A strong advocate for writing from life, love, and heart. So far her life has been evolving around writing/words and dancing/body movements (and many other diverse interests), thus her research took shape from diverse personal experiences. Her new book about hugging and feminist (an autoethnography) is to be published in 2025.
