Readings of prose and poetry by Shizue and Tureeda, followed by writing prompts, free-write time and optional shares/open mic.
After the workshop, support the Mission District with a optional walk down Balmy Alley and dinner at a local restaurant .
Open to people of color and allies. No writing experience necessary. Bring pen, paper, and/or laptop for writing.
Tureeda Mikell, Story Medicine Woman, is an award-winning poet who has published 73 anthologies of writings by at-risk students through Poets in the Schools. She is a UC Bay Area Writing Project Fellow; the author of “Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine,” “The Body: Oracle of Memory” and the co-author/curator of EastSide Arts Alliance’s “Patrice Lumumba Anthology.” She has served as Poet In Residence at both the Oakland Museum and the Museum of the African Diaspora.
Tureeda also has a long deep history in the medical field. She is a Qi energy worker, said to be gifted by a Qi master elder from China. She spent years as a nurse and worked in other health- related fields. A survivor of many chronic illnesses, she has learned that prevention is key. In this workshop, she will offer writing prompts about the body and nutrition, with informative handouts and time for questions.
Shizue Seigel, director of White Now! SF Bay,  is a Japanese American whose family lost their 140-acre produce farm when they were incarcerated suturing WWII.  She earned her first dollar sharecropping strawberries and grew up on Maryland crab, Tokyo food carts, Indian curries and 24th Street platos.. She'll share reflections on her relationship to food economies over time.

More info at writenowsf.com or email writenowsf@gmail.com.