Writing Workshop No. 1 ⟡ Origin Stories

Tired of small talk and tech-bro culture? Longing to expand creatively in a community that encourages big dreams, growth, and change? Want to find your voice and support others as they find themselves too? Welcome! The Creative Friendship Lab encourages people from all walks of life to explore the rich emotional and social world around them, while pursuing individual and shared creative projects. Our Lab invites both serious artists and just-budding amateurs to come enjoy our events and experiments! **This Week's Writing Workshop** For our very first event, we'll be meeting at Central Market at 2 PM on April 5th to explore the theme of *origin stories*. Every epic begins with a spark in darkness—from Prometheus stealing fire to the flash-bang explosion that produced Professor Utonium's Powerpuff Girls. Spring is here, bringing a season of new growth and change. To celebrate its arrival, we invite you to join the Creative Friendship Lab in exploring how you got started—as a writer, as a human being. Whether you're still in your chrysalis or feel like you're spreading your butterfly wings, it never hurts to have a moment of appreciation for time spent spent caterpillar-dreaming. The rough structure of our workshop will be as follows: * Saying hello to each other * Introducing the writing prompt * Independent free-writing * Sharing a couple lines from your writing in small groups * Doing a special closing-out exercise as a big group Thank you in advance for contributing your unique perspective to our workshop! Whether you’re just starting to explore your own creativity or you’ve been committed to it for decades, we hope you’ll join us in welcoming all members of this community in a spirit of vigorous encouragement, thoughtful engagement, and empathetic open-heartedness. **Creative Friendship Lab's Guiding Principles** “I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.” ― Virginia Woolf, *The Waves* “In each of my friends there is…