Love is the Cure | A Creative Writing Workshop
Instructor: jasmine lynea
Date: Saturday, June 28th
Time: 1 PM - 3 PM
Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/love-is-the-cure-a-creative-writing-workshop-tickets-1335230724039?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
In this interactive storytelling workshop, filmmaker jasmine lynea will guide participants through the powerful process of reimagining memories— restoring the love, care, or support that may have been missing in those moments. Through guided prompts, discussion, and creative writing, participants will explore personal experiences and transform them into narratives rooted in healing and forgiveness.
Together, we’ll use the act of storytelling as a tool to reclaim agency, challenge harmful narratives, and envision new realities shaped by love. This workshop is open to anyone interested in personal transformation, creative expression, and collective healing. Queer BIPOC people are encouraged, as this workshop will center the Black experience. No prior writing or storytelling experience necessary—just a willingness to reflect, imagine, and share.As NextFab x Leeway Artist-in-Residence, jasmine is creating an immersive installation for public viewing at parks, community festivals, schools, and other social settings that will encourage the community to come together.
The immersive installation, The Love Machine II, will be a life-sized booth containing three VHS monitors displaying collage videos on loop, of images of black love, care, collectivity, and joy. The booth will be designed to accommodate one person at a time, providing a safe and intimate experience for reflection and healing. Equipped in the booth are multimedia capabilities, including audio, visual, and sensory elements, to recreate the immersive experience portrayed in their short film, The Love Machine.
Participants will have the option to include their transformed stories with audible implementations anonymously.
Workshop Schedule:
Introduction: Artist Talk (10 minutes)
The artist will give a brief introduction and thought process to begin the workshop. They will also include their creative process in creating the short film The Love Machine
Film Screening: The Love Machine (10 minutes)
Group Discussion Prompt: (30 mins.)
What is a memory you wish you could transform?
No hurtful act is “too small.” Identify a harmful experience you can reimagine with love
What type of person would you be?
What does forgiveness look like to you?
Group Sharing: (25 minutes)
Venue Accessibility
The Arts League is not ADA accessible. It is located in a four-story building with no elevators or lifts, and both entrances and exits involve multiple steps. The workshop will take place on the 2nd floor of the building. There will be chairs available for the duration of the event. There are single stall, gender-neutral bathrooms on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th floors.
About the instructor:
jasmine lynea is a queer filmmaker and visual artist whose work centers around themes such as self-love, childhood, and spirituality through science. Their work navigates the fluid spaces between truth and myth, offering vibrant, unconventional narratives that envision a loving, queer, and colorful liberating future.
jasmine is the current Leeway x NextFab Art + Technology Artist-in-Residence, and will focus their residency on building an immersive installation, entitled The Love Machine II. This installation is inspired by jasmine’s short film, The Love Machine, which follows a Black teenage scientist and influencer who builds a machine in his basement that can help restore love within his family. jasmine had the opportunity to direct and write the film as part of BlackStar’s inaugural Filmmaker Lab and since then, The Love Machine has conceptualized into an immersive installation.
By utilizing NextFab’s woodworking, metal, and jewelry facilities, jasmine will build The Love Machine II, a life-sized booth containing three VHS monitors displaying collage videos on loop, containing images of Black love, care, collectivity, and joy. The booth will be designed to accommodate one person at a time, providing a safe and intimate experience for reflection and healing. To recreate the immersive experience portrayed in the film, equipped in the booth will be multimedia capabilities, including audio, visual, and sensory elements.
