What
are the stories of our community's homeless? What do we know about
homelessness? What actions can we take to support community members who may be
experiencing homelessness?
To
explore these questions, Neill Public Library partners with
facilitator and WSU graduate student Nancy Carvajal Medina to host three
workshops to dig below the surface of homelessness in our community.
Carvajal Medina brings assumptions, beliefs, values, cultural heritages,
traditions, and prejudices from non-homeless worlds into
dialogue with the worlds of men and women who have experienced
homelessness.
In
each workshop, stories of homeless individuals collected over three
years as part of a doctoral research project will be shared. Attendees will
participate in interactive exercises to designed to share insights
and knowledge about homelessness, to learn from the lived experiences of
different individuals, to use arts (creative writing, drawing, painting) to
respond to those experiences, and to discuss actions we can take as a community
to support these "houseless" individuals.
Participants
will develop new understandings on the houseless experiences by exploring
our worlds, developing empathetic listening, dialoguing critically, creating,
and acting from the positions we occupy in the community.Each workshop
is different; participants may attend one, or all, of the series.
Workshops are free.
Dates: Mondays: August 14, 21, 28
Place: Hecht Meeting Room
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 pm
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