Bringing Characters to Life - a Workshop with Marcie Rendon

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Sliding scale tuition ($20-$50); scholarships are also available

In this workshop, we will engage in writing exercises (and a short theatrical creation) which will demonstrate how to bring characters to life. Bring paper, pens, pencils, and/or your laptop, imagination and bravery.

Recommended for writers of prose (fiction or nonfiction) and folks who write for theater, though all curious and open writers are welcome.

Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, author, playwright, poet, and freelance writer. Also a community arts activist, Rendon supports other native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues, leadership, writing.

She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series, and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works.

The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater, Rendon has also curated community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists, which premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television), June 2019.

Rendon was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN in 2018. Rendon and Diego Vazquez received a 2017 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women incarcerated in county jails.