peter whitehead & a collection of his musical collaborators will be in residence this week culminating in an offering to the public. this will also be a day for all the fellows of whp to gather, reflect and lay out futures together. a brunch concert and an extended hangout that may end in a fire at annie’s (graham’s) fire pit.

in conversation with an exhibition curated by shirin makaremi for the SF Arts Commission, Sun Park and Shirin Khalatbari will host a writing workshop.

In this writing workshop, we will recall and reimagine experiences we have had with religion and spirituality.  We will consider ways of rooting spiritual practice in the elements and in the seasons, in response to BaZi astrology.

This workshop ties back to Sun's practice and artwork they will be exhibiting in the show. forest, a BaZi astrologist, will lead an introduction to BaZi followed by individual readings.

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kevin cocoran, quinn keck, robin milliken, jake spertus

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the band SOAR will be in residency for the week ending on this day - this event will be their offering to the community. shannon bodrogi is a fellow of whp and has invited their bandmates share time with them here at whp. the event will require an rsvp as space will be limited. stay tuned. update: cave babies will open for soar.

While there won't be prompts, we encourage writers to explore the theme of 'disruption' in their work. Perhaps you cut a scene in half, or maybe a new character knocks on the door and takes the plot for a spin, or you throw in a random image in a line of poetry, maybe you even cut everything up and see what new writing will emerge from the chaos. How you choose to engage with the theme is totally up to you, and totally optional. sign up here.

conrad guevara, zibby jhans, emma spertus, iris irene

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When we write, we accumulate words, sentences, and pages, but we also accumulate knowledge. I believe that whenever we’re writing, we’re teaching ourselves how to write — and whenever we share our writing with friends, we teach each other how to write.

In this workshop, we’ll consider what our writing has taught us so far, identify obstacles we’re facing in our current projects, and experiment with prompts, constraints, and interventions that might reveal new ways to surmount these obstacles. 

The first half of our day will be conversations and writing experiments, and the second half of our day will be unstructured writing time. Before we part, we’ll reconvene and optionally share our writing. 

This workshop is for anyone who is in the middle of writing or trying to write something in any genre — in fact, the more genres, the better!

Amy Berkowitz is the author of Gravitas (Éditions du Noroît / Total Joy, 2023) and Tender Points (Nightboat Books, 2019). Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, and Jewish Currents. Often mistaken for a poet, she has primarily been writing fiction since 2017; she’s currently working on a novel that she likes to call Untitled Bisexual Jumpsuits Project. She lives in San Francisco, where she cohosts the Light Jacket Reading Series with Erick Sáenz. 

Amy Berkowitz is the author of Gravitas (Éditions du Noroît / Total Joy, 2023) and Tender Points (Nightboat Books, 2019). Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, and Jewish Currents. Often mistaken for a poet, she has primarily been writing fiction since 2017; she’s currently working on a novel that she likes to call Untitled Bisexual Jumpsuits Project. She lives in San Francisco, where she cohosts the Light Jacket Reading Series with Erick Sáenz. 

Hannah Kezema is an artist who works across mediums. She is the author of the debut hybrid poetry collection, This Conversation Is Being Recorded (Game Over Books, 2023), and the chapbook, three (Tea and Tattered Pages, 2017). Her work appears in BOMB Magazine, Black Sun Lit, Grimoire, Full Stop, and other places. She is also the co-editor of Moving Parts Press’s broadside series of Latinx and Chicanx poetry in collaboration with Felicia Rice and Angel Dominguez. She lives in the Santa Cruz mountains by the sea, among the redwoods and Wildflowers.

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an anarchist artist and poet interested in ways of living and telling. A Latinx Jewish person of mixed indigenous & settler descent from the unceded lands of the Tongva people, Tatiana is a long term guest in Yelamu, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. 

ebti, meghana bisineer, kara forest, gabi orion

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a collaboration with personal space. film screening support by john davis.

The Blue Description Project (BDP) is an audio description and captioning project—produced by Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts in collaboration with Voices in the Gallery — that engages Derek Jarman's Blue (1993) via expanded and critical accessibility. 

As Jarman wrote in Chroma (1994): “If I have overlooked something you hold precious—write it in the margin.” BDP takes up this invitation by creating a new, experimental iteration of Blue on the 30th anniversary of its release and Jarman’s death. The BDP iteration features creative captions and audio description that have been sourced from numerous contributors. It attempts to convey, express, engage, respond, evoke, articulate, replicate, translate, transmogrify, channel, and transcend what Blue is/was/could be....

rsvp via the answering machine, and please tell us where you found our dog. call (707) 562-5595.

update: this writing day is full. if you rsvp you will be on waiting list! thanks for your interest. future writing days are listed and will be available for sign up a month prior to the date.

We will be trying out a new form of Writing Days to find what is essential, both in our writing and in the day's schedule. This will help us at Winslow in planning a long-lasting shape (or multiple shapes) for the series. Instead of a page of prompts and a cooked lunch, we will rely on the theme to guide us (or not!) and participants will bring a dish to add to the potluck. The hosts will provide a large bowl of brown rice and black beans as a main dish and attendees are welcome to bring food to complement it or something else nourishing they're excited to share. rsvp here.

jordan benton, paige davis, sandra ono, jasmine zhang

Drifting through the densely forested landscape of southern Slovenia—GREETINGS FROM FREE FORESTS, like a lifting fog, reveals a refuge of embedded historical memory. The film travels alongside the testimonies of local hunters, foresters, cavers, and foragers among others—orbiting around an absence left by radical struggle after it has come to fruition and since faded.

During WWII, this forest served as a sanctuary for the Partisan Liberation Front, who were resisting the Fascist occupation of Yugoslavia. Remnants of this event can still be found throughout the forest in various states of decay, but also within images that sought to preserve the revolution’s emancipatory energy for future generations; images now stored in an underground film archive buried within the forest itself, depicting both the violence and the hope that came with radical change.

ian soroka (b. 1987) works in non-fiction forms of film and video. RSVP here.

Cole Pulice is a composer, saxophonist and electroacoustic musician from Oakland-via-Minneapolis.

Fountainsun is the work of Daniel Higgs and Fumie Ishii. Their debut LP, Music Today, is a bright and expressive blend of percussion, strings, flutes, voices, and a tumult of poetry rumbling out from the very center of The Big Bang, traversing eons of song.

Halo is Juana Molina's seventh album, it contains twelve songs and was recorded in her home studio outside of Buenos Aires, and at Sonic Ranch Studio in Texas.

rsvp via the answering machine, and please tell us where you found our dog. call (707) 562-5595.

marissa deitz, anthony a. russell, helen shewolfe tseng, charlotte wendy law

jodie cavalier, emily gui, sea snyder

sholeh asgary, jess fijalkovich, sylvia hughes gonzales, jenny williams

alyssa block, olivia ronan, nathan wheeler

shannon bodrogi, nicki lang, natalye valentina