deCRIPtion Storytelling and Poetry Workshop

We teach one workshop a month. Each workshop is taught once in person and once virtually.

Virtual workshops

Our virtual workshops run from 6-8 p.m. Links will be send ahead of each workshop to those who registered.

This series of workshops take place in scent-free space; please refrain from wearing any scented products. Please contact Joy Young at jyoung@accessliving.org if you have any questions or access needs not covered or that come up after registration. Food will be provided at in-person workshops. When not eating, masks are requested for all people, unless it is in conflict with one’s access needs. We will provide masks if you need one.

These workshops are a collaboration including Bodies of Work and Access Living.

These workshops are brought to you by the Arts and Culture Project at Access Living, an independent living center for people with disabilities; Shirley Ryan Abilities Lab; and the Disability Culture Activism Lab, a teaching lab housed under the department of art therapy and counseling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

The contents of this program were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90RTCP0005). NIDILRR is a center within the administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Workshop content does not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL or HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal government.