What Does It Mean to Be a Creative Woman?
What does it mean to be a creative woman? In the call to gather in a virtual women-led, intention-setting creative workspace called Global Summer Camp, so many of you responded from around the world that we expanded our original attendance to include more women. We are from seven different countries and stunningly-diverse backgrounds, and AROHO is galvanized to make more room for more women in gatherings to come....
The Global Summer Camp Gifts of Fellowship
Congratulations to the Gift of Fellowship recipients for our flagship Global Summer Camp 2020! _______________________________________________________________ The Amanda Gorman Gift of Fellowship, a gift created by Lisa Sukenic, covers the cost of registration to attend AROHO’s Global Summer Camp (August 10-14, 11-2pm ET, Zoom enabled), for one young woman poet of color. In the spirit of youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman’s poem...
Big and Bad by Anna Scotti
Buy from Amazon Gritty and realistic enough to appeal to adults as well as to savvy middle school and high school readers, Big and Bad touches on real issues that affect real kids: poverty, alcoholism, racism, urban violence, homelessness, and, even, animal abuse and dogfighting. [ezcol_2third_end] “ Big and Bad is an achingly bittersweet and pure novella about the hurt and wonder, the pain and joy of life. I often read...
A Gift to the Silenced
You hold space with us in this world for diverse women’s voices. It is the call of our times to reach together across limitations to connect in rooms of our own making and to amplify each other’s voices and our creative work. We are excited to share a new vision for AROHO gatherings, Global Summer Camp. This is one way we are making more room. Inspired by women’s requests in The Q and our recent “Voices of...
Global Summer Camp
AROHO’s Global Summer Camp Our Room Our Work Our Way Once upon a time, before the COVID-19 Pandemic stopped the planes in the sky and the people from gathering, there were women writers and artists who met in the high desert ruled by Pedernal and millions of night stars. They came together in circles of all sizes until they were filled with each other’s stories and the possibilities of connection. They laid down their armor by...
