WORKSHOP | $18 | 18+ | This winter, take time to honor your ancestors and reconnect with your roots through poetry. In this intimate workshop, we’ll explore epistolary poems and writing letters to the dead, weaving together themes of ancestral lineage, cultural heritage, and spirituality. Learn to hold grief with intention and transform it into a powerful act of ancestral veneration.
Born and raised by Greek and Guatemalan immigrants, Ariadne Makridakis Arroyo (she/they) is a Los Angeles-based poet, writer, arts administrator, and feminista who grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has been featured in Latin@ Literatures, Tasteful Rude, and Acentos Review, among others. In 2023, they underwent a speculative fiction fellowship with Roots. Wounds. Words. and have been named the 2025 LGBTQIA+ residency fellow with The Sundress Academy for the Arts. Currently, Ariadne’s work centers queer, feminist, and Latine perspectives in a way that explores the crossroads of radical joy, sexuality, brujería, and ancestral healing.
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This event will be indoors.