The Sociopolitical Love Project

Emergence Community Arts Collective
733 Euclid Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

Dominic Moulden presents a community learning workshop on the creative art of resistance poetry and principles of organizing.  This workshop explores the sociopolitical process of poetry writing and its impact on images of self, history, and culture.  Aspiring and experienced poets and spoken word artist are encouraged to attend this community education workshop to share poetic writing techniques and learn how poetry is a tool to use in organizing the community. 

Learning Goals:
1)     learn to write poetry
2)     learn principles of organizing
3)     learn about the principles and practice of community learning
4)     create Freedom Poetry similar to Freedom Songs of civil rights movement
5)     publish poetry in neighborhood newsletter and ONE DC’s website

Dominic Moulden was introduced to organizing in the late 1970s and is still dedicated to a lifestyle of organizing evidenced through his current work with Organizing Neighborhood Equity DC (ONE DC), which focuses on resident-led organizing and leadership development through popular education and consciousness-raising to encourage and incite transformative social change. True to his conviction that social change is both personal and political, he has remained a steadfast student of social movement history and has accrued a wealth of knowledge around topics including but not limited to anti-lynching, abolitionist, women suffrage, black arts, civil rights and human right movements. He taught poetry in a Baltimore community center and at Washington Ethical High School.

Cost: Donation. For more information call  202-462-2285.