Events
ART & THE POWERFUL YOU?
Join the Writers Room team as we explore the transformative power of Kurt Vonnegut's visual art. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll dive into Vonnegut's unique artistic style, using creative writing and art exercises to discover how art can empower and inspire. Together, we’ll reflect on how his art invites personal expression, resilience, and self-discovery—and how we can unlock our own.
Seeding Joy
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
Seeding Joy
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Seeding Joy
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Creative Kickback at Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Visual Artist
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Second Tuesday: Room for Error
Join Writers Room for our monthly writing workshop at the Dornsife Center with Teaching Artist Yolanda Wisher!
Creative Kickback — THE EARTH: OUR HOME
Join us for the opportunity to analyze and create artwork related to the environment- everything from the daisies on the sidewalk to the tallest forests!
Stories of Learning & Teaching
Join us for an inspiring and interactive celebration of the journey to becoming an educator.
Seeding Joy
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Blues of The Bottom
Join Writers Room at the Dornsife Center from 4:30pm - 6:00pm for a special cyanotype and writing workshop about The Black Bottom.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Storytelling for Policy Change
How personal narratives and storytelling can catalyze policy change
Second Tuesday: Between The Lines
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.
Your Stake in Social Justice with Open Door and The Lindy Center
Join us for dinner and a meaningful conversation on how we can all find our role in social justice work.
Seeding Joy: The Joy Lexicon
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
Writers Room and Painted Bride Quarterly Present Greg Pardlo
Join Writers Room and Painted Bride Quarterly at the Dornsife Center for a special reading by Greg Pardlo
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Second Tuesday: Blues of The Bottom
Join Writers Room at the Dornsife Center from 4:30pm - 6:00pm for a special cyanotype and writing workshop about The Black Bottom.
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
Seeding Joy
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
Second Tuesday: Neighbors
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.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Seeding Joy: COLORED PEOPLES TIMES
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Prison LETTER WRITING with yasp
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at YASP for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Second Tuesday: Returning
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.
HOW TO WIN: RADICAL STRATEGIES FOR HOUSING JUSTICE
Conversation on urgent issues of housing in Philadelphia and radical strategies for organizing to combat the housing crisis.
No Arena Postcard Potluck
Join the No Arena in Chinatown Solidarity (NACS) group for a potluck & postcard-writing session with new and seasoned organizers alike.
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Second Tuesday: Stoop Stories
Drawing by Alice Gray Read
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.