Encuentros virtuales en vivo: Sรกbado 20 de mayo, 13:00 EDT

En la sesiรณn utilizamos la fotografรญa โ€œGente en su casaโ€, ย de Andy Goldstein.

No reunimos 5 personas, desde Chile, EEUU y Espaรฑa.

Comentamos sobre la fotografรญa de Andy Goldstein de la serie โ€œGente en su casaโ€. Nos llamรณ la atenciรณn el aspecto de pobreza del hogar y como hay detalles como las estrellas que decoran el techo. Las miradas de las personas, como desafiando al que mira, tambiรฉn llamaron mucho nuestra atenciรณn. Vimos que el lugar estรก abarrotado de muchas cosas; interpretamos que son y quรฉ lugar ocupan en cada sitio.

Vamos despertando a cada detalle y buscando significados. Hay mucha vida. Pero nos preguntamos quรฉ vida tienen, intentamos averiguar cรณmo es que se organizan, que hace cada uno. Descubrimos como interpretamos la historia desde nuestros propios marcos de significado. Intentamos comprender la vida que hay en la fotografรญa.

La propuesta de escritura fue, โ€œUno de nuestros hogaresโ€. Escribimos sobre cรณmo vivimos en los hogares, sus historias y lo bueno de ellos. Y como nos sentimos en ellos. Hablamos de quรฉ es importante para sentirnos en un hogar.

Aquรญ, ahora alentamos a los participantes que, si asรญ lo desean, compartan lo que escribieron a continuaciรณn. Deja tu respuesta aquรญ, si deseas continuar la conversaciรณn sobre la fotografรญa de Andy Goldstein de la serie โ€œGente en su casaโ€. Pero antes, les recomendamos tener en cuenta que el blog es un espacio pรบblico donde, por supuesto, no se garantiza la confidencialidad.

Por favor, รบnase a nosotros en nuestra prรณxima sesiรณn en espaรฑol: El sรกbado 17 junio a las 13 hrs. o a la 1 pm EDT. Tambiรฉn, ofrecemos sesiones en inglรฉs. Ve a nuestra pรกgina de sesiones grupales virtuales

ANDY GOLDSTEIN ”GENTE EN SU CASA”

Credit: Andy Goldstein


Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EDT May 19th 2023

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session we took a close look at Encaustic, acrylic on paper bag, pencil, vellum, masking tape” by Marn Jensen, from Art of the Wish posted below.

Our prompt was: โ€œWhat carries you?โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next session Friday June 2nd at 12pm EDT, with more times listed on our Live Virtual Group Sessions.


Encaustic, acrylic on paper bag, pencil, vellum, masking tape” by Marn Jensen, from Art of the Wish

Credit: Marn Jensen


Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EDT May 12th 2023

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session we took a close listen to “Iโ€™ll Fly Away” by Albert E. Brumley, posted below.

Our prompt was: โ€œStart with ‘Iโ€™ll fly away.’โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next session Friday May 19th at 12pm EDT, with more times listed on our Live Virtual Group Sessions.


"Iโ€™ll Fly Away" by Albert E. Brumley
Credit: Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss


Live Virtual Group Session: 6PM EDT May 8th 2023

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session we took a close look at an image from Guillermo del Toro, Pinocchio (2022)” and read a poem published in Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (Chatto and Windus, 1907), posted below.

Our prompt was: Write beginning with the words โ€œ Dear Sappho.โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next session Friday May 12th at 12pm EDT, with more times listed on our Live Virtual Group Sessions.


XII
	Sappho 
 
In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born,
      And said to her,
"Mother of beauty, mother of joy,
Why hast thou given to men
 
 
"This thing called love, like the ache of a wound
      In beauty's side,
To burn and throb and be quelled for an hour
And never wholly depart?"
 
And the daughter of Cyprus said to me,
      "Child of the earth,
Behold, all things are born and attain,
But only as they desire,โ€”
 
"The sun that is strong, the gods that are wise,
     The loving heart,
Deeds and knowledge and beauty and joy,โ€”
But before all else was desire.

This poem was published in Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (Chatto and Windus, 1907), translated by Bliss Carman.

Live Virtual Group Session: 12PM EDT May 5th 2023

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this session!

For this session we read a poem Ending the Estrangement” by Ross Gay, posted below.

Our prompt was: โ€œWrite about ending an estrangement.โ€

More details will be posted on this session, so check back again!

Participants are warmly encouraged to share what you wrote below (โ€œLeave a Replyโ€), to keep the conversation going here, bearing in mind that the blog of course is a public space where confidentiality is not assured.

Also, we would love to learn more about your experience of these sessions, so if youโ€™re able, please take the time to fill out a follow-up survey of one to two quick questions!

Please join us for our next session Monday May 8th at 6pm EDT, with more times listed on our Live Virtual Group Sessions.


"Ending the Estrangement" by Ross Gay

from my mother's sadness, which was,
to me, unbearable, until,
it felt to me 
not like what I thought it felt like
to her, and so felt inside myselfโ€”like death,
like dying, which I would almost
have rather done, though adding to her sadness
would rather die than doโ€”
but, by sitting still, like what, in fact, it wasโ€”
a form of gratitude
which when last it came
drifted like a meadow lit by torches
of cardinal flower, one of whose crimson blooms,
when a hummingbird hovered nearby,
I slipped into my mouth
thereby coaxing the bird
to scrawl on my tongue
its heart's frenzy, its fleet
nectar-questing song,
with whom, with you, dear mother,
I now sing along.

Ross Gay, "Ending the Estrangement" from Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. Copyright ยฉ 2015 by Ross Gay.  Reprinted by permission of University of Pittsburgh Press.
Source: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)