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SUMMARY:Empowering Black Women's Voices In Merton
DESCRIPTION:This 6-week project aims to provide a safe and supportive environment for Black women residents of Merton to explore their creativity\, well-being\, and cultural heritage through writing\, journaling\, and self-expression. Following the weekly 2-hour creativity\, well-being\, self-expression and spiritual development workshops\, participants will be invited to contribute to a publication (anthology) on Approaches to Well-being by Black Global Majority Residents in Merton. \nThe project is specifically for Black Women who live in Merton and is a FREE initiative facilitated by Way Wive Wordz Publishing\, Editing and Tuition\, who received funding from BAME Voice for this project. \nEmail info@waywivewordz.com to register\, or complete this application form. You must be able to attend the 6 sessions as there are limited spaces and we ask that you are able to fully commit to each one. \nStarts:\nOur first session is Tuesday 6th May\, 2-5pm – which will be an introduction to the project and sharing your aspirations for the project. \nSubsequent days – each Tuesday until 10th June\, will be from 2-4pm. \nAll will take place at Wimbledon Library: Exhibition Room 2. 35 Wimbledon Hill Rd\, London SW19 7NB. \nYou will be provided with writing materials. \nFacilitator\nDr Michelle Asantewa is an award-winning author\, independent educator\, cultural consultant and publisher. Her publications include the young adult novel\, Elijah\, The Awakening and Other Poems\, Guyanese Komfa: The Ritual Art of Trance and Something Buried in the Yard\, published by Way Wive Wordz Publishing\, which she co-founded in 2014. She is the editor of the anthology In Search of Mami Wata\, which centres on African and Caribbean water spirits. Mama Lou Tales\, a biography of her mother Lucille Davis received a prize for the Guyana Literary Prize in 2022. Dr Asantewa is the co-organiser of the Annual Osun River Ritual at Morden Hall Park. Her first collection of short stories\, Rupunni Affair and the Mami Wata\, Children’s Activity Book will be published in the autumn of 2024. \nPatrick Lewis Photo
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LOCATION:Wimbledon Library\, 35 Wimbledon Hill\, London\, SW19 7NB
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