Join us for the inaugural Queer Depot 101: Creativity & Queerness

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Join us for the inaugural

Queer Depot 101: Creativity & Queerness @ The Carlton-Sobe

Co-led by poets Julie Marie Wade & Maureen Seaton, "QUEER DEPOT 101: CREATIVITY & QUEERNESS" (a little reading, a little writing, and a whole lot of conversation) explores queerness as a potent source for creativity for writers and artists.

"Is all art-making inherently queer, particularly in a world that devalues art and consigns most artists to the margins of mainstream work?," asked salon facilitators Julie Marie Wade & Maureen Seaton. "Maybe queerness is a kind of potential we all have to express ourselves creatively, apart from gender, race, orientation, etc. What if it is? How can we tap into this potent energy source? The discussion begins: QUEER DEPOT 101.”

QUEER DEPOT 101 is the first in a series of literary salons produced by Reading Queer that will provide a safe environment for marginalized voices to come together and talk about issues that impact the community from a queer perspective.

Join us Wednesday, March 19th, 2014, from 5pm – 7pm at The Carlton Hotel located at 1433 Collins Ave. South Beach, FL 33139 (behind The Betsy Hotel). Cost: free & open to everyone. RSVP here or neil@readingqueer.org.

Thank you,

Neil de la Flor, Executive Director
Reading Queer

Reading Queer is partially funded by a Knight Arts Challenge Grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Miami Foundation GLBT Community Grant and individual donors. Donate to & share our mission here: www.readingqueer.org/support. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to get the latest news.

Maureen Seaton, Reading Queer Advisory Board Member, is the author of sixteen poetry collections, both solo and collaborative— most recently, Fibonacci Batman: New & Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013) and Two Thieves & a Liar (Jackleg Press, 2012)...read more here.

She has received the Chicago Literary Award in Poetry (2004), the Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize (2004), the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize (2005), the Literal Latte Nonfiction Award (2006), two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes (2006, 2010), the AWP Intro Journals Award for Nonfiction (2009), the...read more here.

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The Miami Foundation provides civic leadership, bringing stakeholders together to tackle issues of concern in our community. Working together with our Fundholders and community partners, we leverage collective knowledge, creativity and resources for a greater impact than any one of us could make alone.

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