JOURNAL FOR JUSTICE:
EMPOWER YOURSELF, YOUR READERS,
YOUR CHARACTERS AND YOUR STORY
with Alana Marie Garrigues
Join us for a 90 minute hands-on workshop to get the creative juices flowing and engage in world building - in this world, or the one that exists only in the imagination!
Alana will share her Journal for Justice process, a few discoveries along the way, some prompts, and a real world example of her very early activism (which has inspired a children's book she's been toying with for yeeears).
Then we'll get to making together. Making time can be as quiet or chatty as participants like. At the end, there will be time to share and to ask questions.
Journal for Justice as yourself, or Journal for Justice as your character to get to know them and their world a little bit better.
Please bring a journal or some paper to write on, and a writing utensil. If you are artistically inclined in a visual manner of speaking or if you enjoy a good collage or found word session, please also bring whatever lights you up - paints, pens, markers, colored pencils, glue, magazines, etc.
You may find quotes by social justice icons helpful in preparing yourself, but I recommend that you come into the workshop with an open mind to see what develops.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
ALANA MARIE GARRIGUES
Alana Garrigues is an intuitive visual artist, a writer, a lover of land and trees, mama of nearly-grown identical twins, and a strong believer in multidisciplinary magic.
Home today is in Holden, Massachusetts where she tends to trees, native plants and seasonal food on a half-acre. While the woods around her are leveled and clearcut for cookie cutter development, she grieves and gardens in defiance and hope.
Art, writing, and nature have all healed, shifted, and transformed her in myriad ways, and she loves to share the beauty of creative process with others.
Alana created the Journal for Justice concept and launched it with a creative partner via Instagram in Summer 2020, after realizing how important art journaling had been for her artistic practice, her activism, and her sanity. Initially called the #40DayJournalForJustice - meant to build a habit - it has since been simplified as the Journal for Justice.
Whether a single page or a daily habit, it is a practice that shifts the creator. That is more important than any number.
Alana has presented the Journal for Justice concept in Strawberry Moon Art Journal magazine, where she co-edited the Art and Activism issue, and conducted a guest workshop at the New Hampshire Council on the Arts biannual conference.
She is also a former journalist and editor who co-created and co-facilitated the Story Sprouts series for CBW-LA alongside Nutschell.
Currently, she is opening up a FREE Patreon membership for artists and writers who want to come together in solidarity and Journal for Justice together.
Follow Alana:
http://www.alanagarrigues.com
https://www.instagram.com/alanaofloveandlight/
Purchase her books here:
