Creating Collective Memory: Writing Social History: A mini-conference of workshops and speakers

Creating Collective Memory is a three-day event designed to provide insight, inspiration, and motivation for people writing family stories, community stories, memoir, or biography. You can select workshops that will help you with your project and attend lectures to get inspired by the work that others have done to document people’s lives and community history.

Speakers include:

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: Memory and Community
Jean Barman: Memory as Social History
Larry Wong: The Crossroad Between Two Cultures
Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome: Hope in Shadows: Telling Stories/Choosing Memories

Workshops Include:

Richard Somerset Mackie: Writing Focused Narrative
This workshop will help you to write a focused narrative around the life of a person, or the life of an organization or community.

Daniel Francis: At Home in the Archives
This workshop is a ‘how-to’ guide for using an archive—how to use finding aids, how to find the right archive for your project, how to know where to begin to look

Leslie Hall Pindar: Ethics and Legal Issues in Creative Non-fiction
As writers, we encounter questions of ethical and legal concerns throughout our writing lives. Navigating the waters of decision about what is copyrighted, what is protection of personality, and what is the community’s collective sense of responsibility and norm are just a few of the decisions a writer makes.

Stephen Osborne: Memory and Photography
This workshop will explore how appearance and memory interact to  make and remake the past. Bring a photograph you’d like to talk about.

Mary Schendlinger: Adventures in Publishing
Your memories—in stories, poems, photos, or drawings—deserve to be published, and lots of print and digital options are open to you. Get rolling with your project in this creative brainstorming session.

Thursday to Saturday, November 12 to 14, 2009.

Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

Cost: $50 (Thursday night), $155 (one day), $295 (full event).

Click here for the agenda at a glance: http://www.sfu.ca/wp/memory.htm

Writing and Publishing Program, SFU

Tel: 778-782-5093

Email: wpp@sfu.ca

Web: www.sfu.ca/wp

Register: http://www.sfu.ca/wp/ccm.htm