Join us for a writing workshop with Artist-in-Residence Mojdeh Tarighat on Thursday, June 2 from 5:30-6:30PM. Registration is required for this free event and pizza will be provided for all participants. Sign up here.
As readers, we treasure work that conveys the depth of the human condition. We cannot look away when we find ourselves and our pain reflected back at us. But the leap from reader to writer is treacherous. All too often, new writers guard their work, isolate themselves, or worse, avoid writing what they truly wish to get down on the page. How would we write if we were truly free?
At this event, Mojdeh will lead a series of writing exercises and exchanges. Come to write; come to read. We will work on equal footing to ask ourselves why we write at all.
No work will be read aloud, but guests will exchange their exercises to benefit from sharing their work and connecting with other writers. Frequent writers, stagnating writers, and anything in between are welcome to attend this event. Responses to the creative exercises can be written in any genre.
This event is free and open to writers of any experience. Register here.
MEET THE ARTIST
Mojdeh Tarighat is an emerging writer of literary fiction and a mathematician. As an artist, Mojdeh explores themes of isolation, shame, and boredom against backdrops including the American South and western academia.
Her forthcoming novel is set in Virginia and questions the myths of this region and the disillusionment it breeds.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mojdeh received her undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. She relocated to Charlottesville to earn her doctoral degree in mathematics. At the University of Virginia, she studies algebraic combinatorics under the guidance of Professor Jennifer Morse. She enjoys sharing her research to wider audiences through talks that knit together basic notions of symmetry, countable sets of discrete abstract objects, and geometry.
The 2022 New City Artist-in-Residence program is supported by the Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF).
