Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. In this workshop, we’ll use a series of poetic forms to explore opposites, contradictions, redaction, and the complexity of our stories. Using antonym poems, the Golden Shovel, and blackout poetry, we’ll experiment with communicating the multiple facets of our truths and our stories, and make space for what's between the lines. 

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Won’t you be my neighbor? Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, 3509 Spring Garden St, from 4:30pm - 6:00pm, for our first Second Tuesday of 2025. We are excited to partner with the Undergraduate Student Government Association, in connection to their project “How to Be A Good Neighbor.”  In this writing workshop, we will explore neighbors — our memories of and with them, things unsaid, and creative recipes for how to be (or become) a good neighbor.

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships.

In Chinese culture, the winter solstice is celebrated with the traditional Dōngzhì Festival to mark winter’s arrival. Observed on the longest night of the year, Dōngzhì is a turning point—every day after means more light. The festival’s philosophy is associated with the I-Ching hexagram fu, “Returning.”  This is the return of positive yang energy after a period of darkness.

For the last Second Tuesday workshop of 2024, we’ll write with this sense of return in mind as we take stock of what we need to reconcile with ourselves in order to make space to create something new as the solstice approaches.

Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.

Community based learning (CBL) is a pedagogical model that unites classroom learning, engagement opportunities, group dialogue, and guided introspection to make students more informed, more proximate, and more reflective about pressing issues that shape society. As Drexel students, you have a unique opportunity to take truly groundbreaking CBL courses.

Join Writers Room and the Lindy Center for lunch as we hear from current students and recent alums on the impact that community based learning (CBL) courses have had on their Drexel experience, professional development, and life more broadly. We hope you’ll consider enrolling in a future CBL course!

Ross Commons, 229 N. 34th St, 3rd Fl

Food & refreshments provided.

The Mantua Urban Peace Garden invites all neighbors to their 2024 Harvest Festival on October 26th, from 12:00pm - 4:00pm. There will be food, activities, and community throughout the day, and a special Writers Room cyanotype workshop.

Mantua Urban Peace Garden, 37th St. & Brown St.

Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative, and the Partners for Campus - Community Engagement (PCCE)’s Civic Imagination grant.