FAITH ADIELE
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FAITH ADIELE is
the co-editor of Coming of Age
Around the World: A
Multicultural Anthology, which
contains 24 international
stories ideal for college and high school classrooms.
Her travel memoir, Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a
Black Buddhist
Nun (W.W. Norton), won the 2005 PEN Beyond Margins Award for
Best
Memoir (of 2004). The PBS documentary "My Journey Home" is based
on
her
(Obama) life growing up in a Nordic-American family and then traveling
to
Nigeria to meet her father and siblings. Other projects include The Student Body: A Novel, a trashy
thriller co-written with 3
Harvard pals,
and 2 children's readers on urban Africa.
A popular speaker and contributor to O and Essence magazines, Faith has appeared on NPR, in a television ad for TIAA-CREF, on the Tavis Smiley show, and at universities around the world. She currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland, California and is at work on a social/cultural memoir about her Nigerian Nordic American heritage. Last year she was chosen as one of Marie Claire magazine's "5 Women to Learn From." |
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A Note from Faith... |
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I'm
excited to be teaching at one of my favorite island retreats - in my
home state of Washington! It's part of the Hedgebrook’s Women
Writers Master Class Retreat Series.
THE EXPERIENCE: 7 days at an idyllic world-renowned women writers retreat on Whidbey Island, and exceptional writing workshops with a celebrated writer. Each resident writer is housed in her own handcrafted cottage in the woods with a sleeping loft, work area and wood-burning stove. Meals are prepared by Hedgebrook’s in-house chef using fresh produce from our organic garden. The 48-acre retreat features forest walking paths, ponds and meadows, views of Puget Sound and Mount Rainier, and quiet areas for writing, reading and meditating. A beautiful beach and charming seaside village are nearby. Faith Adiele —
Memoir to Change Your Life, Change the World
June 21 - 28, 2010  THE WORKSHOP:
Whether we’re recalling our experiences with travel and food,
reflecting on a lifetime of activism, investigating family stories,
recording group oral history, or journaling our resistance, we’re all
telling 2 stories—the personal and the cultural. Memoir is where these
2 narratives meet: Our individual stories, enhanced with head data (the
social significance of journalism and researched details of history)
and heart data (the storytelling of fiction and lyricism of poetry). In this intensive workshop, we will
move in both directions—down into the self and memory to call up the
details that make our stories unique, and out into the world in search
of metaphors and themes that speak to others. Sessions will combine
supporting each other’s work-in-progress with generating new writing
inspired by Hedgebrook’s meditative, natural setting. For more
information, visit Faith Adiele’s website.
Fee:
$2000 + tax (covers lodging, meals & workshops)
For applications contact Executive Director Amy Wheeler: amywheeler@hedgebrook.org, 360-321-4786. Memoir as the Ultimate Multicultural Act:
The terrific new print issue of YES!
Magazine, Issue #53, Spring 2010
features AN ARTICLE BY
ME on teaching multicultural literature to students against their will,
being show-and-tell at my goddaughter's fifth grade class, and memoir
as the ultimate multicultural act. Contact YES! for bulk copies to
distribute at events!
 According
to the Press Release: By
mid-century, people of color will be the majority in the United States.
The new issue of YES! Magazine
shows us ways to get beyond the racism
that's haunted us since the founding of the country. The special
34-page feature section of "America: The Remix" introduces the people
who are already writing a new American story that embraces all the
cultures and peoples of the United States. Youth activists, labor
organizers, urban planners, and just plain folks are putting aside race
to work together. They're ready to make our country’s diversity our
strength.
Barbie & Afro-Puffs: In this excerpt from Meeting Faith, YES! Magazine Online tells you everything you (n)ever wanted to know about the history of my hair and my mother's Barbie policy - complete with cute kid pix! It's also featured on the HAPPINESS page ('cuz nothing says happy like Barbie!). Faith Goes Digital: Look, Mom - I teached myself how to make a Book Trailer, complete with music (that looks like every other person's first efforts on iMovie. Ooo, Ken Burns effect!)! All the cool kids are doing it. (Both links will get you the 2:40 minute video on YouTube.) 
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