Family Writing Workshop
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In partnership with Writers in the Schools, two family writing workshops will focus on selections from the Children's Film Festival Seattle 2013 and Universe is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yūsaku. Expert poets and librettists will guide visitors’ literary imaginations, receiving inspiration from the creativity of Chinese culture, the beauty of the Bangladeshi countryside, and the calmness of contemporary Japanese Zen Buddhist painting.
Additional Workshop
Saturday, July 20, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Tickets
Workshop fee included in Children's Film Festival Seattle 2013 admission (Asia Society members and children under 8 $5; nonmembers $8). Show your film festival ticket stub upon arrival.
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About the Instructor
Weezie Mackey works full time as Communications Manager at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business and has been a writer and editor with Webster’s Dictionary, Encyclopedia Britannica, Tootsietoy, Rotary International, and the Williams College Museum of Art. She holds a BA in English from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and an MFA in creative writing from American University in Washington, D.C. Weezie is the author of the novel Throwing Like a Girl, which was nominated as Best Young Adult Book 2007 by the Texas Institute of Letters. She has taught with Writers in the Schools for five years and lives in Houston with her husband, two sons, and two dogs.
Education programs at Asia Society Texas Center are made possible
by support the Reliant Energy Charitable Foundation. Additional support
provided by Asia Society contributors and members.