Open Mic Against Genocide
Join us at Against Genocide Open Mic!
An open mic for poets who are speaking out again genocide!
Featuring:
Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis
Peris M. Karim
and Carla Schick
Sign up in advance or at the event.
Lahpet Thoke BIPOC Writing workshop
You’re invited to join Thet Shein Win on Monday, June 2, 2025, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, for a free online Lahpet Thoke BIPOC Writing workshop generously sponsored by the Berkeley Poetry Festival 2025.
In this workshop for BIPOC writers—or any BIPOC folks curious to explore their lives through writing—we practice timed, free-writing to poetry prompts. Together we create a safe and confidential space in which to write by hand, share aloud, and deeply listen, without commentary or critique, to the lives and stories of ourselves and others. Join us for this intimate and healing practice where we unite to share our humanity in BIPOC community.
Thet Shein Win is a Burmese-American writer, artist, teacher, and mother. She offers Lahpet Thoke BIPOC Writing Circles at her home in Berkeley, where she lives with her husband, two beloved teenagers, an exuberant retriever, and many iridescent fish. Thet earned a BA in Fine Art and Literature from Claremont McKenna College, an MFA in Sculpture from Mills, and an MA/PhD ABD in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford. www.thetsheinwin.com
Please sign up for this workshop only if you identity as BIPOC. If this practice sounds compelling to you, but you do not identify as BIPOC, please visit Thet’s mentor Laurie Wagner at www.27powers.org for additional offerings.