Foodstories: Interactive Writing Workshop

January 26 from 11:30 AM - 1 PM

Aplomb Gallery, 15 Mechanic St, Ste 117, Dover, NH or via zoom

Join in-person at Aplomb Gallery in Dover, NH or on zoom for this special 90 minute workshop! Advanced registration requested.

What is your favorite dish? Do you have a story about sharing a meal or learning to cook something that came as a surprise for you? These are some of the questions we will explore as a part of this interactive workshop as participants will be invited to think about the many ways that food connects to their personal story. These can be stories that are shared that range from as recent as last week, last month, to several years ago. Every one of us has a story to share about food and you do not have to bring any knowledge or background to participate in this interactive workshop.

Thank you to the The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to help make longer format workshops possible through a grant!

About the instructor:

Shanta Lee is an award winning writer across genres, a visual artist and public intellectual actively participating in the cultural discourse with work that has been widely featured. Winner of the Abel Meeropol Social Justice award, she was the creator and producer of Vermont Public’s “Seeing...the Unseen and In-Between within Vermont’s Landscape.” Shanta Lee is the author of several books and a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine and Art New England. Her books include GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, winner of the 2020 Diode Press full-length book prize and the 2021 Vermont Book Award. Black Metamorphoses which was named a finalist in the 2021 Hudson Prize, shortlisted for the 2021 Cowles Poetry Book Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Idaho Poetry Prize. Shanta Lee’s latest work, This Is How They Teach You How to Want It...The Slaughter: A Field Guide for the Hunted & the Hunter, The Dead-Alive, The Live-Dead Ones, The...(Harbor Editions, 2024) is in direct communication with the ancient mythology of the wild hunt — Wilde Jagd, Wild Hunt, or Chase in German — in which supernatural/ghost riders are pursuing a target. Shanta Lee is the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to the Vermont Humanities Council’s board of directors. Her current multimedia exhibition, Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine, which features her short film, interviews, photography, and other items has been exhibited at the Bennington Museum, University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art, the Southern Vermont Arts Center. She has an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MBA from the University of Hartford and an undergraduate degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality from Trinity College. To learn more\ about her work, visit: Shantalee.com