Bibliotherapy for Human Rights: Workshop Series

past event

August 27, 2022

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

KANEKO

1111 Jones St. Omaha, NE 68102

FREE

Open to the public

COVID DISCLAIMER

I acknowledge that attending this exhibition/event includes a risk of contracting COVID-19 and that KANEKO is in no way responsible.

A workshop series with Sharmila Seyyid, Artist Protection Fund Fellow in Residence at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

These are relaxing and stimulating writing workshops. Writing as a way of healing is both gentle and effective. The goals of this introductory workshop are to:

  • Create community
  • Promote personal recovery, transformation, and transcendence
  • Ease depression and anxiety; Maximization of resilience, development of healthy “connections”
  • Self-empowerment, increased awareness by others about the potential for recovery
  • Improve the mood and feel a great sense of well-being

Sharmila Seyyid, an Artist Protection Fund Fellow, will be working with UNO’s English department and Women and Gender Studies program while continuing her writing and international social justice work.

Sharmila Seyyid is a writer, a social activist, and a fearless critic of societal injustices. She has two books of poems and this novel to her credit. Gita Subramanian, who took up translation after a long teaching career in Hong Kong, has published four translations of Tamil novels. In 2010, she won the Nalli Thisai Ettum award for the best Tamil to English translation. Learn More

Sharmila Seyyid will have copies of her book Ummath: A Novel of Community and Conflict available for guests to purchase.

Located in the Old Market

We are located in three turn-of-the-century warehouses in the historic Old Market District in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Public street, meter, and garage parking is available on surrounding blocks throughout the Old Market.

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COVID DISCLAIMER

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