Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

Featuring the work of grade 7 students from Fisher Park PS/Summit Alternative

With teacher Sharon Kuiper and poet Laurie Koensgen with guest presenter Wendy Luttrell

In Person Youth

General Admission

Free

Thursday

Nov , 2019

9:30am

Eastern

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

355 Cooper, at O’Connor • Ottawa

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Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Breakout Sessions

Laurie Koensgen Wendy Luttrell

A word after a word after a word is power

Margaret Atwood

9:30am–10:30am

Write On! Chapbook Showcase

After intensive writing workshops our young authors are ready to share the fruits of their labours with students and teacher Sharon Kuiper, poet, Laurie Koensgen with Guest Presenter Wendy Luttrell.

10:40am–11:45am

Lead by Julie Garlen

Breakout sessions with the young authors, teachers, Sharon Kuiper and David Farley, poet Laurie Koensgen and Guest Presenter Wendy Luttrell and guests. More intimate conversations on The Rights of the Child and Future Challenges, including health and wellness, environmental change, technology and society, culture and identity.

The Authors

Laurie Koensgen

Laurie Koensgen is an Ottawa poet whose work has appeared in established Canadian literary journals and online magazines across the continent and in the UK. She was shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry 2018, and recently received Honourable Mentions in Arc’s Diana Brebner Prize and The New Quarterly’s Occasional Verse Contest. Laurie is a long-time advocate for the professional arts and their inclusion in our schools. She is a founding member of the Ruby Tuesdays poetry collective. Laurie lives in Hintonburg with her husband, stage and film actor, John Koensgen.

Wendy Luttrell

Wendy Luttrell is Professor of Urban Education, Sociology and Critical Social Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research on educational inequality examines the interplay of social structure and subjective experience in school settings, focusing on how a sense of belonging, exclusion, entitlement, constraint, possibility, success and failure take root in young people’s self-evaluations and actions. She is the author of two award-winning books on this topic, School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women’s Identity and Schooling (1997) and Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens (2003) and is also the editor of Qualitative Educational Research: Readings on Reflexive Methodology and Transformative Practice (2010). Her forthcoming book, Children Framing Childhoods: Working-class Kids’ Visions of Care (Policy Press, 2020) examines the role that gender, race, and immigrant status play in how diverse, young people growing up in urban, working-class communities portray their lives through photographs and video. Following thirty four children over a ten year period, her research explores how the young people used their cameras to counteract stereotypes and deficit views of working-class childhoods; highlight the value of care as a collective, not individual imperative; and frame their learning and growth on their own terms. At a time when distorted and increasingly fractious visions of “marginalized” communities proliferate, the book and its multimodal platform of photographs and videos compels readers/viewers to reconsider their ways of seeing and valuing poor and working-class children of color, their childhoods and implications for educational justice. Throughout her career, Luttrell has directed community-based, university, and teacher inquiry projects dedicated to advancing social justice in and around schools and that promote innovative research and teaching practices, as well as curriculum development initiatives. She also serves as Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education. http://www.wendyluttrell.org/