Workshop:

Latinas Write/Escriben

Place	Time	Facilitator	Directions
Construyendo Puentes/Building Bridges Bilingual Workshop (Español/English); meets at Herstory Headquarters	Miercoles (Wednesday) 3:00-5:00 PM	Erika Duncan, Silvia Heredia,Translator	Direcciones
Herstory Home Makers, Unity Housecleaners Cooperative of The Workplace Project in Hempstead	Thursday, 5:30-7:30 PM	Silvia Heredia	Direcciones (google map)
Herstory Latina East End	Se esta organizando (currently reorganizing)	Sandra Dunn	Direcciones

email contactus@herstorywriters.org Phone: 631-676-7395, FAX: 631-676-7396
No Tuition

Farmingville group.

Workshop Description:

Aquí se reúnen hispano hablantes y anglo hablantes que trabajan juntas con el fin de escribir sus memorias. Este taller se da en el Centro de la Unión de Jornaleros de Long Island-Comité Farmingville (Workplace Project). Invitamos a cualquier mujer interesada a unirse a este esfuerzo único de combinar la escritura y la creación de comunidad. NO es necesario hablar/escribir en inglés.

In September 2004 Herstory launched its first workshop conducted completely in Spanish. Thanks to the generous support of the Department of Human Services of East Hampton Town, the recent Latin American immigrant population as well as more established Latina residents of East Hampton would now have the opportunity to tell their stories in their own language. Facilitated by Sandra Dunn, who has a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and is a freelance translator and writer, this ongoing weekly workshop has had women from many different countries pass through its doors, namely, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru.

Since then Herstory Latina has grown with a bilingual workshop, taking Building Bridges as its theme, meeting in first in Farmingville and now in Centereach facilitated by Erika Duncan and Silvia Heredia. In addition, a new group for Unity Housecleaners Cooperative, facilitated by Silvia Heredia, meets at the Workplace Project in Hempstead.

Facilitators:

Erika Duncan, our workshop leader, is the author of the novels A Wreath of Pale White Roses and Those Giants: Let them Rise, as well as Unless Soul Clap its Hands, Portraits and Passages, a book of essays. Her portraits of artists, writers, thinkers and movers and doers were a regular front page feature in the Long Island Weekly Section of The New York Times for more than three years. She has received numerous grants and awards, including one from the Ford Foundation, for her work teaching others to using writing as a way of breaking through.

Sandra Dunn has a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and is a freelance translator and writer, this ongoing weekly workshop has had women from many different countries pass through its doors, namely, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru.

Silvia Heredia joined Herstory Writers Workshop in January of this year and was immediately taken by its community of women writers, philosophy, and grassroots base. Silvia initially contacted Herstory when looking for alternative healing channels for those suffering with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease, as part of her work as Community Outreach Director for the Lupus Alliance of America, Long Island/Queens Affiliate. Since she was diagnosed with lupus almost ten years ago, Silvia has been on a healing journey and quest to understand her illness and finish her doctoral dissertation on the power and healing elements of story, and narrative medicine. Finding Herstory Writers Workshop has been a true dream as what once seemed impossible—fusing reading and writing with healing—has today, become a life project.
Silvia P. Heredia se unió a los Talleres de Escritura Herstory en enero de este año e inmediatemente le impactaron su comunidad de escritoras, filosofía y base social. Silvia inicialmente contactó a Herstory cuando buscaba canales alternativos de sanación para pacientes con lupus, una enfermedad autoimmune crónica, como parte de su trabajo como directora de alcance a la comunidad para La Alianza de Lupus, Afiliado de Long Island/Queens. Desde su diagnóstico con lupus hace casi diez años, Silvia ha emprendido un camino y búsqueda de sanación para entender su enfermedad y terminar su tésis doctoral, la cual se enfoca en el poder y los elementos curativos de la historia y en la narrativa medicinal. Encontrar el Taller de escritura Herstory ha sido un sueño verdadero, ya que lo que antes parecía imposible—fusar la lectura y la escritura con la sanación— es hoy día, un projecto de vida.

Webmaster JCG
10 February, 2008.