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    Open Mic + Community Togetherness Cafecito

    Join us for an evening of creativity, connection, and community at our Open Mic—featuring storytelling, poetry, song, writing prompts, and cafecito with the Latine/Hispanic Affinity Group.

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    • Community Studios

    Roots & Rhythm: The African Oral Tradition in Spoken Word

    Love Letters to the Culture: This month, participants will explore how poets write to, for, and about their communities, heritage, and lived experiences as acts of affirmation and artistry.

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    • Community Studios

    The Gender Communications Toolbox: Empowering Yourself Professionally

    This session focuses on crafting written communication that is both assertive and inclusive, with an emphasis on managing gender dynamics thoughtfully. Participants will revise career-related writing samples to build confidence using language that respects all identities while promoting clarity and professionalism.

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    • Community Studios

    Using Social Media for Advocacy

    This session focuses on the emotional impact of advocacy and digital engagement. Participants will explore how to create healthy boundaries while showing up online, and why rest and care are essential to sustained activism.

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    • Committee Meetings

    IV Edit – Print

    The art of book selling! Hear from McNally Jackson’s Allison Glasgow on what goes into selling books and what a Display Team means (and how they choose to curate the table of books that you see). Plus, mentees will join us to read their stories from our newly released anthology, Hope Lives in Our Words.

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    • Community Studios

    Prompts from the Everyday that Spark Beyond

    In this session, we’ll use prompts to uncover the nuances and complexities of our stories and characters. Take your storytelling further by seeing the world not just at face value, but by exploring what lies beneath the surface.

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    • Community Studios

    Peer-Pair Vision Boarding

    This Community Studio is for Peer-Pair relationships, with a focus on identity and culture. Our goal is to help Peer Mentee’s strengthen their connection using fun writing exercises and games.

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    • Committee Studios

    Creating Through Uncertainty

    In this session, we’ll be using sounds to tune into ourselves and lean into different emotions that we may be experiencing or have experienced in the past. Participants will try out creative sound and audio techniques like audio journaling, song writing, and beat-making.

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    • Community Studios

    Artist’s Playground: The Limitless World of Fiction Creative Writing

    In this workshop we will take a unique route in story-writing by creating various stories one writer at a time. Through a “pass it along” experience, we’ll build on previous Pinterest/imagery techniques to craft stories.

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    • Community Studios

    Cultivating a Sense of Place in Fiction

    In this session, we’ll workshop turning an ordinary setting into one with a vivid, visceral sense of place. We’ll build a setting from scratch and then experiment with which details to include to illuminate character, genre, and theme without bogging down our story.