Truth & Beauty: Telling our Stories in Writing that Moves and Matters

In this interactive presentation and workshop, we will talk about reading, writing, traveling, listening, and imagining, all as ways to freshen and widen our perspectives. Connecting to one another through stories, poems, and conversation will help us determine what we mean by truth in a moment when the notion and word are contested. 

Together, we will explore poetic/philosophical truth along with "objective truth," and make mini wonder books, lists of questions and ways to approach exploring those questions through writing. We will examine how art and writing can be fueled not by what we know, but instead by what we ask. We will keep our world views—and expressions of our experiences—kaleidoscopic. 

Participants will write something—anything from a single line or list to a poem or scene—that feels beautiful and therefore true, or true and therefore beautiful.