P3 - the Postcard Poetry Project
You may know that i am a member of Postcrossing, an online International penpal postcard group. I have sent 48 postcards and received 46 postcards (for every one your send, you receive one). You can look at my profile if you go to the "Explore" tab and type in "nerdychick2001" in the "find users" box. Anyhoo, i thought i would post this very interesting workshop by the Kearney Street Workshop, which by the way will be moving to PariSoma. As of February 8, they will be located at 1436 Howard (between 10th & 11th).
P3: The Postcard Poetry Project with Debbie Yee and Bushra Rehman
A Literary and Visual Exchange between Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Writers' Workshop (NYC)
Mondays, Feb 9 - Mar 30, 7-9pm
PariSoMa, 1436 Howard Street
One night in San Francisco, outside of Kearny Street Workshop, two artists mourned the loss of letter writing as an art form. The discussion moved to postcards, the most naked of epistles, on whose limited surface words are shared with the understanding that they will be read not only by the intended, but perhaps by every hand the postcard passes through. For this reason, the artwork is often coded, an image that only the intended can decipher.
Inspired by Kundiman*, these two artists decided to create P-Cubed, The Postcard Poetry Project: A Literary and Visual Exchange between Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Writers' Workshop, two of the oldest Asian American arts organizations in the country. In P-Cubed, writers and artists in San Francisco and New York City will have the chance to create original works of postcard art and poetry and then exchange them with pen pals on the opposite coast. Students will explore various literary, art and print techniques with the goal of producing eight or more postcard poems during the course. The workshop will culminate in a public reading on both coasts and a publication consisting of the poet-artists' portfolio of work.
P3: The Postcard Poetry Project with Debbie Yee and Bushra Rehman
A Literary and Visual Exchange between Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Writers' Workshop (NYC)
Mondays, Feb 9 - Mar 30, 7-9pm
PariSoMa, 1436 Howard Street
One night in San Francisco, outside of Kearny Street Workshop, two artists mourned the loss of letter writing as an art form. The discussion moved to postcards, the most naked of epistles, on whose limited surface words are shared with the understanding that they will be read not only by the intended, but perhaps by every hand the postcard passes through. For this reason, the artwork is often coded, an image that only the intended can decipher.
Inspired by Kundiman*, these two artists decided to create P-Cubed, The Postcard Poetry Project: A Literary and Visual Exchange between Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Writers' Workshop, two of the oldest Asian American arts organizations in the country. In P-Cubed, writers and artists in San Francisco and New York City will have the chance to create original works of postcard art and poetry and then exchange them with pen pals on the opposite coast. Students will explore various literary, art and print techniques with the goal of producing eight or more postcard poems during the course. The workshop will culminate in a public reading on both coasts and a publication consisting of the poet-artists' portfolio of work.
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