Join special guest Yvonne Brown for a writing workshop for Black History Month:

This workshop is designed to invite participants to pay attention to how their body reacts to the revelations that come to us through introspection and through the use of body metaphors to express our "truths.”  Other purposes are to foreground the right-brain left-brain functions in absorbing and thinking about difficult subject matter such as the generational histories of family, community, labour, migration, war, displacement, dispossession, conquest, resistance, survival, accommodation, and new ways of defining ourselves. 

Bio: Yvonne Brown is of Jamaican heritage and a teacher, researcher, and writer. She is a retired certified public school teacher of English with seventeen years experience. Further, she had been a university lecturer in teacher education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia from 1986 – 2008. She taught courses in Educational Administration and Leadership, Social Issues in Education, and Women’s Studies. She is the author of Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica (Kitchener, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press) 2010. She is currently researching and witting a political biography of a Jamaican member of the legislative council during the colonial era.