Taller de libro de ejercicios / Workbook workshop: Experimentos en Alegría / Experiments in Joy —

Saturday, July 12, 4:00–5:30PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space here
Workshop capacity: 30
Free

Come activate joy with the Experimentos en Alegría / Experiments in Joy, a two-part event transforming joy from feeling to practice. Gabrielle Civil and Daisy Magallanes will facilitate a bilingual Spanish/English workshop using the CO—CO Press workbooks, available en Español and in English, to explore joy, creativity, and diasporic identity.

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Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. Her series of performance memoirs, a chronicle of performance body, includes Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), the déjà vu (2022) and In & Out of Place (2024). She organized and compiled Experiments in Joy: A Workbook (2019) and coordinated the translation for Experimentos en Alegría (2023) published by Co-Conspirator Press. Foundress of The Black Weirdo School, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space. 

Daisy Elizeth Magallanes (She/They) is the proud Chicana daughter of migrant parents from the sacred Caxcan land of Tlaltenango, Zacatecas. She is a Pushcart Nominated writer, translator, and educator whose work has been featured in Acid Verse Literary Journal, Brevity, the Black Warrior Review, Brooklyn & Boyle, Huizache, & Hypertext Review. Their poetry has been internationally recognized and exhibited in CDMX. They are currently the Managing Editor at Huizache which advocates for and platforms the new literary vanguard.