“A handful of mud": A Creative Writing Workshop with Patty Krawec

Join the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture and the Centre for Human Rights Research on Friday, October 4th for a creative writing workshop exploring traditional stories with Anishinaabe-Ukrainian writer Patty Krawec.

Traditional stories contain a wealth of information about how to relate to each other and the world around us, and they evolve over time to address the needs of particular communities or times. In this creative writing workshop participants will take a traditional story from their own community and rewrite it in part or in whole to highlight its relevance to contemporary needs. We will have time for talking about our traditional stories and the issues that concern us, writing, and then sharing what we’ve come up with.

Participants are asked to bring something to write with (ex. a notebook or a computer) and a story they are familiar with. 

Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs. 

To ensure we have enough space, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/zS7E9z6uib.

For information on getting to the University of Manitoba campus, please see: https://umanitoba.ca/about-um/our-campuses/getting-here. If you have any questions, please contact chrrman@umanitoba.ca.