GSHA-SC
Hispanic Family Stories’ Workshop Series
Each and every one of you
can write. Some are novices; some are professionals; and you will work at your
own level if you participate in the GSHA-SC
Hispanic Family Stories’ Workshop Series.
Attending the workshops is not about achieving
an impossible task. By the end of every
workshop, you WILL have completed at least the draft of one story. Some will
edit and enhance their stories when they return home; others will not. Either
is fine. Our purpose is that you get started writing a family story during the
workshop.
The focus of our 2018
Holiday Meeting will be to display our story telling skills. Whether there are few or many who attend the
workshops, the meeting will honor each individual’s work as part of our group
effort.
This will be a place to
experiment with form. You may try writing a short story, the beginning of a
longer piece, a poem, a description of a place beloved by an ancestor, a recipe
whipped into a creative writing soufflé. You might be a fledgling screenwriter, a
producer of gorgeous lists, one who loves to write short descriptions of
ancestral foods, towns, or customs. Could you be a writer with a flair for
historical-fiction-based ancestors? Might you be a lyricist? You’ll never know
until you put pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard, and see what keeps
emerging.
These workshops aren’t
designed to be the place to complete a literary masterpiece, though it’s
possible that a literary masterpiece will emerge from one or more attendees. Do
not be afraid. If you’re stumped, the act of writing will help you get unstuck.
For those not afraid, be a kind and shining light for the rest of us.
Please come with paper
and pen and/or a fully charged laptop. Also, give some thought to particular
people, places, or things about which you’d like to write. We’ll always start
the workshop with a 5-minute prompt-driven exercise designed to loosen any
thought of “I can’t write” out of your brain.
There will be 5 to 8
workshops throughout 2016. Most will be in Orange County. If there is anyone in
L.A. or elsewhere who would like to be my writing moderator twin and coordinate
another location, please contact me. The more, the merrier.
Our first Hispanic Family
Stories’ Workshop in the series will be at:
Zeidler’s
Café
Skirball
Center
2701
N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los
Angeles, CA 90049
12:00
– 2:30 p.m.
You
must R.S.V.P to me by Wednesday, January 10. I need to make reservations at the
restaurant, and the restaurant is expecting each of us to purchase lunch with a
20% tip for their allowing us to use the restaurant during a busy day. I will
provide the list of attendees to the entrance personnel, so that you won’t be
charged museum admission for attending the workshop.
The
L.A. premier of Challah Rising in the
Desert: The Jews of New Mexico will be shown at the Skirball from 3:00 –
5:00 p.m. We welcome you to stay and
watch the movie. You must, separately, register for the movie on the Skirball
website. Many of our members deep New Mexico roots descend from Sephardic Jews.
To view a trailer of this movie or make your reservation go to:
Karen
S Córdova
January
1, 2018
To attend the movie, make your reservation online, using the link provided, below.
General Admission: $12.00
Students: $9.00
Skirball Members: FREE
From the Skirball Center website:
"LA premiere! Discover the fascinating story of New Mexico’s distinctive Jewish community. In this documentary—showcasing “passionate storytelling,” as hailed by the Albuquerque Journal—braided challah bread represents the five waves of settlement of New Mexico’s Jewish community, including conversos escaping the Spanish Inquisition 400 years ago, German Jewish pioneers of the Santa Fe Trail in the 1800s, scientists of the 1940s at Los Alamos, and the counterculture of the 1960s.
Challah Rising in the Desert is a poignant account of the Jewish experience intertwined with New Mexico’s unique history and landscape. (2017, 84 min. No MPAA rating.)
A Q&A with filmmaker Isaac Artenstein and coproducer Paula Amar Schwartz and sampling of green chile challah follow the screening."
Skirball Cultural Center (310) 440-4500
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
