In this 2-day workshop, participants may attend a live performance by The Soul Rebels at World Cafe Live on Thursday evening then follow up the next day with a sensory-based workshop that asks questions and delves into issues brought to the surface by their experiences listening to this New Orleans-based brass band.

The Soul Rebels describe their history as “start[ing] with an idea—to expand upon the pop music they loved on the radio and the New Orleans brass tradition they grew up on. They took that tradition and blended funk and soul with elements of hip hop, jazz and rock all within a brass band context.” The workshop will incorporate somatic breathing and sensory practices into the work of writing. The goal is to bring the body back onto the page... to find breath on the page and ink in the blood... and find the confidence to blow it out.