Community Workshops
Interested in participating? join a free community workshop!
Voices of Lake County aims to highlight the voices in our communities! To share your voices about this year's theme "Sustainable Lake County," attend an affiliated writing, performance, or art workshop!
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
ERASURE POETRY WORKSHOPS
Tues., March 18, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Grayslake Heritage Center & Museum
164 Hawley St., Grayslake, IL 60030
In partnership with the Grayslake Arts Alliance Writers’ Group
Sat., April 5, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Zion-Benton Public Library, Meeting Room A
2400 Gabriel Ave., Zion, IL 60099
In partnership with the Zion-Benton Writers’ Group
Erasure poetry is a poetic form in which a poet erases or blacks out words from a preexisting source to create new poems. Some erasure poems include visual designs such as illustrations, collage or painting.
In this workshop, you will learn about erasure poetry and create your own erasure poem using nature-inspired documents. You are invited to display your erasure poem at a gallery show prior to the Convergence performance at College of Lake County on Thursday, April 10!
Workshop Leader: Poet & CLC Instructor Heather McClelland
https://heatherwriter.com/
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Register below or at https://tinyurl.com/erasurepoetry
Erasure Poetry Flyer_Zion Benton and Grayslake.pdf
Erasure poem provided by Heather McClelland
POETRY OF PLACE WORKSHOP
Thursday, April 3, 6:00 - 8:45 p.m.
College of Lake County Lakeshore Campus, Room S208
34 N. Sheridan Rd., Waukegan, IL 60085
Lake County, Illinois is home to over 31,000 acres of protected natural land and offers an abundance of opportunities to connect to nature, yet Northeastern Lake County is burdened by environmental inequities. In this workshop, we will collaborate to create a Poetry of Place Google map, where you can “pin” poems or short narratives on a specific place in Lake County. Write a story or poem about why a specific place in Lake County is important or meaningful to you, describe why the place needs to be preserved for future generations, or explore what we could do to solve some of the environmental inequities in our region. The Poetry of Place map will be on display at a gallery show prior to the Convergence performance at College of Lake County on Thursday, April 10 and will be posted on the Voices of Lake County website.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! > > > Bring digital photos of places in Lake County that you might want to write about!
Pizza will be served (no charge) - complete registration form below for food preferences
Open to all Lake County Community Members age 16+. Participants between the ages of 16-18 must have parental consent. If participant is under the age of 18, this form must be completed by a parent or guardian.
REGISTRATION
Poetry of Place Workshop Flyer.pdfPAST WORKSHOPS
THANK YOU to all attendees and participants at this workshop! Please come view the work participants made at our pop-up gallery outside of the Convergence Performance on Thursday, April 10!
ART OF SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOP
Presented in collaboration with Community Engagement with the Arts
Presented in collaboration with Community Engagement with the Arts
Thursday, February 20, 2025
6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
CLC's Lakeshore Campus
Katrina Davis Salazar, CLC Art Engagement Coordinator, and Cristen Leifheit, Voices of Lake County, led this interactive art making workshop.
They introduced elements of Brushwood Center's report on health, equity, and nature and helped participants create a diptych from two print making processes - cyanotypes and trace monotypes - using found objects from nature, such as rocks, plants, leaves, sticks, and debris.