Workshop: Letters Spell Words + Words Cast Spells / Jason Graham (MOsley WOtta)

Mon, July 25, 202211:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Bodecker Foundation
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Overview

This workshop invites participants to utilize their lived experience as a personal and performative power source. Students will create share edit and explore their own original written and spoken poetry for performance and personal use.

This wordshop invites the challenging and changing of systemic oppression through tongue and thought and timing. This worldshop invites a reimagining of prospective futures now, through the creative repurposing of colonial english. This warpshop invites participants into a portal of poetry.

Three weeks / VIRTUAL  Mondays + Wednesdays  July 25- August 10  from 11-12:30.

  • Jason Graham

    Jason Graham (MOsley WOtta)

    Jason Graham (MOsley WOtta) (he/him) is a legacy creative, joining the communal work of rendering ancestral+current, personal+communal trauma and healing through the mediums of writing, painting, music and performance. Notables>>> Contributing Artist to: The High Desert Museums award winning Desert Reflection Exhibition, “Black Matter” Exhibition curated by Tammy Jo Willson (Corvallis Art Center, Chehalem Art Center Newberg), BLM exhibition JSMA (Eugene), NPR Top 11(Music) Artist to watch 2021, Bend Creative Laureate, Oregon Fields Artist Fellow, Oregon Humanities Bridging Oregon Facilitator. His recent album IT’s NOT THE YEAR IT’s YOU was released in 2022 on Wake Records. @killyholiday

Location

Bodecker Foundation
2360 NW Quimby Street
Portland, OR 97210
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