Perhaps especially in an election year, we need stories about bridging differences and seeing the world from another perspective.
We're teaming up with the Austin Public Library Foundation for a storytelling project called Common Ground.
Over the coming weeks, we’re inviting you to craft personal stories of overcoming differences with others — whatever that might mean to you — at one of a series of creative writing workshops.
We'll pick some of the best ones to be broadcast on KUT this summer and fall.
There will be six workshops at library branches around Austin (we've added more due to demand):
- Saturday, Feb. 8, noon-2 p.m. at the Twin Oaks Branch Library
- Monday, Feb. 10, 7-9 p.m. at the Windsor Park Branch Library
- Thursday, Feb. 20, 6-8 p.m. at the Carver Branch Library
- Sunday, March 8, 1-3 p.m. at the Central Library
- Monday, March 9, 6-8 p.m. at the Central Library
- Monday, March 30, 6-8 p.m. at the North Village Branch
- Wednesday, April 15, 7-9 p.m. ONLINE via Zoom
- Saturday, April 18, 7-9 p.m. ONLINE via Zoom (RSVP here)
The workshops are free and open to adults, but attendance is capped at 20 people per session.
If you want to get an idea of what one of these stories sounds like, check out our Library Love Stories series from 2019, which followed roughly the same process.
