PSNY LGBTQIA+ Free Verse Workshop: Patchwork Quilting

A free generative virtual workshop for LGBTQIA+ Creatives with poet River Coello!

This experimental workshop invites you to collage pieces you have started but had to abandon. Bring with you any and all material of your own that can be repurposed. Channeling the spirit of sustainability, this workshop is designed to find the precious in the discarded—to reimagine the imperfect as a site of wonder. We will take inspiration from existing centos out there and offer that same imaginative grace to our own unfinished material.

About the instructor: River Coello is a Guayaquil-born cultural weaver based in Orlando. Their practice dances between ancestral and personal memory, documenting embodied and (auto)ethnographic knowledge through performance, visual media, and writing. They often work within magic (as) realism and in the languages where they have found homes. River is proudly Andean, kariwarmi, kuir, and disabled. Learn more about their work at rivercoello.com.

PSNY's Free Verse Workshops are identity-centered, free virtual spaces designed to uplift marginalized creatives. To create a system of equity within our community, participants of all Free Verse Workshops receive a 50% discount code, redeemable on any of our Weekly Virtual Workshops, each Thursday from 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM EST. For more on the program, feel free to visit https://poetrysocietyny.org/free-verse.

Free Verse events are open to attendees of all backgrounds who enter with respect for the focus of the space and PSNY’s code of conduct.