IN PERSON Writing Your World (for disabilities)
4 Weeks | Thursdays | Begins April 17, 2025 | 10am-12pm MT
Instructor: Vivian Hansen
AWCS & CASS MEMBER PRICE: $150.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $200.00
This workshop is for writers with disabilities, though everyone is welcome.
Learn how to write by asking questions about what you’ve seen, heard, remembered, and what you do well. This course will help you write poetry and small stories. Your experience is a fingerprint of you. Writing a story or poem will teach others about your special gifts.
This class takes place IN PERSON at the Alexandra Writers Centre Society.
Vivian Hansen has four books of poetry: Leylines of My Flesh (Touchwood Editions 2002), Angel Alley (Passwords Enterprises 2004) A Bitter Mood of Clouds, and A Tincture of Sunlight (Frontenac 2013 and 2017). She is currently working on a novella memoir: The Book of Ferns. She has an essay in You Look Good For Your Age (University of Alberta Press 2021), and a poem in The (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Press 2022). Vivian teaches creative writing with the University of Calgary and Alexandra Writers Centre.
Calgary Alternative Support Services Inc., (CASS) was founded in 1988 to address the segregation, isolation and limited opportunities available to people with disabilities. CASS enlists and develops human services professionals to support people to discover and contribute their unique strengths and talents. Our work is about making community connections. Whether it’s finding a place to live, getting a job, or connecting with opportunities for participation and learning, CASS serves people and helps to make the community accessible to everyone.
Through the opportunities and connections that CASS facilitates, citizen advocacy for diversity and inclusion is inspired. This is how CASS and the people we support strengthen community.
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We are a community that thrives on support and encouragement. Based on the philosophy of "no writer left behind", the J. Michael Fay Subsidy Program is available to anyone who finds themselves in financial need but really wants or needs to participate in one our programs are classes. Click link above for more details and to apply.
