Co-Creating Worlds with Déy Rivers

Saturdays: 5/10 & 5/24 at 10am-12:30pm PT (Additional 1 hr “office hour”  TBD)

Class Format: Virtual on Zoom and recorded for participants to refer back to for 30 days. Highly recommended to be present for both virtual labs as this is an experiential practice with active participation.

What can unfold when we visualize and co-create worlds in collective practice? We will focus on Speculative Fiction based on non-linear modalities and inclusion of global majority storytelling.  Experiment in different elements of visual art, movement, and playfulness to expand ideas of atmosphere, narration, voice, and form. Bring your sticky not-quite-there scenes, a story idea that is hard to start, and/or need a boost to continue writing; we will explore them together with tools ranging from drawing to dancing to dice.    

Participants will receive a suggested readings list prior to lab, in-lab discussion and writing space, and hopefully a flare for the fantastic.

Pricing:

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks. 

This course offers two sliding scales based on your relative financial standing. The huge range listed below is meant to reflect the incredible disparity in economic conditions of people living in different parts of the world, and also the historical reality of stolen wealth in many different forms, generally from the so-called Global South to the North. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of how your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$250 Partner

$175 Supporter (Note: this reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$125 Companion

$95 Friend

A limited number of scholarships are also available for anyone needing further financial assistance and especially for BIPOC. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info, or if you are feeling challenged in any way by the financial requirements of participation.

Déy Rivers is agender, non-conforming Black american caring for a depressed, anxious, c-ptsd brain and body through writing, visual art, poetry, and movement. They reside on Turtle Island where their work is inspired by various modes of storytelling, botanical motifs, queer relationships, and is in conversation with the past and present to imagine futures. They were a 2023 Periplus Fellow for fiction, 2023 Caldera Artist in Residence, recipient of 2021 RACC Make|Learn|Build Grant, 2020 PAM RE:Imagine Grant, and selected for the 2020 Ooligan Press Writers of Color Showcase. You can read some of their published written work online in Khôra Issues 22-25, and see some of their visual works at deyrivers.com.