Sym·bi·o·sis. noun \ˌsim-bē-ˈō-səs,\: a cooperative relationship; an intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms. In the Words of Womyn = body of womyn writers. Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural = transformative arts space & community center. ITWOW + Tia Chucha’s = symbiosis. ITWOW began with an experience…a resounding void of womyn voices on the [...]
On Saturday, September 24, 2011 poets all over the globe will be stepping up to microphones in coffee shops, bookstores, cafes, community spaces, living rooms, street corners, and anywhere else people gather to share–in solidarity–our poems about change. I get chills every time I just think about this event! Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural [...]
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural is hosting their 6th Annual Celebrating Words Festival on Saturday May 21, 2011 from 1-7pm at LA Mission College and In the Words of Womyn will be there hosting a networking tent for Emerging Writers and Chapbook sales and YOU are invited! If you are an emerging writer and are interested [...]
You are invited!! And…some of our very own In the Words of Womyn poets will be representing on the mic!! So if you are in the Los Angeles & San Fernando Valley Area, please come out and support our ITWOW writers and all the other incredible authors, musicians, poets, and performers. Oh, and did I mention this [...]
~Jenuine That’s right, we will be starting another year of In the Words of Womyn workshop sessions at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural on Friday, February 4, 2011 at 6pm. We will meet each Friday for 10 weeks with our last meeting on Friday, April 8, 2011. March will be an especially exciting month as we [...]
In the Words of Womyn celebrates it’s first birthday! Wooohooo! What an incredible first year we had! In January 2010, ITWOW was born out of conversations and experiences and a passion for empowering the voices of womyn everywhere. ITWOW began as a writing circle workshop and grew into this website featuring online publications of womyns’ [...]
I thought it might be helpful for me to post information about the Open Mic venues about which I know in the Los Angeles area. For those of you in other counties, states, etc. if you have information about Open Mic venues in your area (or even LA venues I haven’t listed) please email me [...]
The In the Words of Womyn workshop I lead at Tia Chucha’s was invited to prepare poetry pieces that were to be given to various city and state politicians at an upcoming community meeting panel discussion event. After the poems were submitted it was decided, by members of the board of the organization which had [...]
