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Herstory takes root in Huntington
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Herstory Writers Workshop is partnering with the Huntington branch of the NAACP and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington to offer a new community writing workshop, Building Bridges: Black, Brown and White, for women of varied backgrounds. Facilitated by Lonnie Mathis, the seven-week pilot program will take place on Tuesday evenings, 7 to 9 pm at the Huntington Station Enrichment Center. Organizers anticipate a late-January start-up date.
Seed money for the project has been provided by the Journey Toward Wholeness Committee and the Lifespan Religious Exploration Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington, while the NAACP of Huntington has donated the use of its meeting space. There is a need for funding to keep the program going beyond the first seven weeks.
The workshops are being offered free of charge, so that any interested woman can attend regardless of her financial situation. Participants will be guided in turning their intimate stories into works of art crafted so that others may hear them. Herstory offers an environment of intensive instruction, which in addition to creating literary works upholds values of empathy, inclusiveness, self-guided healing, safety and the search for social change in the voices that historically have been among the most profoundly silenced.
Based on its successful Building Bridges program in Bay Shore, where women recently released from prison write along with women from the larger community, Herstory's new Huntington series aims to promote sharing and learning among women of different races, religions, ethnic backgrounds and life experiences. Since its founding in 1996, Herstory has touched the lives of over 2,000 women and girls — incarcerated and free — who have partaken in this unique approach to writing for the "Stranger/Reader" that allows all women to participate on level ground, regardless of their educational background or previous writing experience.
Begun in the painfully segregated neighborhoods of suburban Long Island, Herstory's work has earned the support of human rights educators and healers alike.
For information and/or to reserve your seat, call 427-9547.
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