A collaboration between the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and MoMA, this Writing Club at Home session welcomes guest writer Alice Sparkly Kat to facilitate a workshop on sunlight, moonlight, prophesy, and becoming. Alice Sparkly Kat will introduce On Kawara’s series I Got Up…, share a series of creative writing prompts, and offer the opportunity for writers from around the globe to gather in a calm, supportive, and welcoming environment. Writing Club is part of the Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative, in which we seek to offer a space for connectedness and healing through art.
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) is a literary arts nonprofit organization devoted to creating, publishing, developing, and disseminating creative writing by Asian American, Asian, and diasporic individuals, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice. Since its founding in 1991, AAWW has been dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. At a time when migrants, women, people of color, Muslims, and LGBTQ people are specifically targeted, the organization offers a countercultural public space in which to imagine a more just future.
Facilitator
Alice Sparkly Kat is an astrologer. Their goal is to bring reconstruction and historicism back into astrology and to bring mysticism back into storytelling. Their astrological work has inhabited MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. They are the author of Postcolonial Astrology (2021).
Registration
Register for the session on Tuesday, January 10, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Accessibility
Live CART captioning will be available. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
Writing prompts will be available in English and in Spanish.
Volkswagen of America is proud to be MoMA’s lead partner of education.
Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Leadership support for Adult and Academic Programs is provided by the Carroll and Milton Petrie Education Program Endowment, and Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Endowment.
Major funding is provided by the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art Endowment for Educational Programs, and the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund.
Additional support is provided by Gretchen Jordan.