Covid has heightened our need for connection and shown us how place changes when ownership through a sense of community is missing. d.talks invites you to celebrate your sense of place as a means to rebuild community through our Share Your Story workshop. In this workshop, d.talks will extend our ongoing conversation on place and memory and turn our memories about place into mini stories.

The Share Your Story workshop is a writing workshop for non-writers, facilitated by d.talks committee members Veronica Briseno Castrejon, Sally El Sayed, Alfred Gomez, Joy Olagoke, Sasha Simic, and Sergio Veyzaga. No prior experience or preparation is required to participate. The only thing participants are asked to bring is an image, drawing or illustration of a place that inspires particular reflections for them. Questions that participants may be asked to consider include: Where is this place? Does it still exist? What aspects of the city/space erode or strengthen your connection to the memory? What does this place make you feel? For inspiration, participants are invited to view stories already shared with d.talks, available at http://www.dtalks.org/memories-3.