Events
Tending to Your Internal Garden
Cultivate inner well-being through grounding, journaling, mindfulness, and meditation at the Mantua Urban Peace Garden.
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
Seeding Joy
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
The Wombhood Circle
The Wombhood Circle will gather community members to celebrate Black wombhood through the sharing of personal reflections, movement, and creative exercises
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Anthology 11 Release Party
COME CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF WRITERS ROOM’S 11TH ANTHOLOGY. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.
FIRST Tuesday: ROOM FOR ERROR III
Join Writers Room for our last workshop at the Dornsife Center with Spring Term Teaching Artist Yolanda Wisher
Seeding Joy: Adornments and Adorations
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
ABCs of Afro-Asian Solidarity
Join Chi-ming Yang, Sterling Johnson, Carol McCullough and Lauren Lowe in a workshop about Octavia Butler and Afro-Asian solidarity.
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
Second Tuesday
Join Writers Room for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center with Spring Term Teaching Artist Yolanda Wisher
DRAG: ART, ACTIVISM, COMMUNITY
Join Writers Room at the Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden for a drag performance and dialogue with the Drag Arts Oral History Project
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Journaling Workshop with VHP
Join Writers Room for an interactive writing workshop to help develop your journaling practice.
Seeding Joy: Poetic Justice
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
ART & THE POWERFUL YOU?
Join the Writers Room team as we explore the transformative power of Kurt Vonnegut's visual art. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll dive into Vonnegut's unique artistic style, using creative writing and art exercises to discover how art can empower and inspire. Together, we’ll reflect on how his art invites personal expression, resilience, and self-discovery—and how we can unlock our own.
Creative Kickback at Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Visual Artist
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Second Tuesday: Room for Error
Join Writers Room for our monthly writing workshop at the Dornsife Center with Teaching Artist Yolanda Wisher!
Creative Kickback — THE EARTH: OUR HOME
Join us for the opportunity to analyze and create artwork related to the environment- everything from the daisies on the sidewalk to the tallest forests!
Stories of Learning & Teaching
Join us for an inspiring and interactive celebration of the journey to becoming an educator.
Seeding Joy
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Blues of The Bottom
Join Writers Room at the Dornsife Center from 4:30pm - 6:00pm for a special cyanotype and writing workshop about The Black Bottom.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Storytelling for Policy Change
How personal narratives and storytelling can catalyze policy change
Second Tuesday: Between The Lines
Join us for our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. In this workshop, we’ll use a series of poetic forms to explore opposites, contradictions, redaction, and the complexity of our stories. Using antonym poems, the Golden Shovel, and blackout poetry, we’ll experiment with communicating the multiple facets of our truths and our stories, and make space for what's between the lines.
Free and open to all, with community dinner immediately following.
Supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Creative Communities Initiative.
Your Stake in Social Justice with Open Door and The Lindy Center
Join us for dinner and a meaningful conversation on how we can all find our role in social justice work.
Seeding Joy: The Joy Lexicon
Andrea Walls presents a free workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.
Writers Room and Painted Bride Quarterly Present Greg Pardlo
Join Writers Room and Painted Bride Quarterly at the Dornsife Center for a special reading by Greg Pardlo
INSIDE / OUTSIDE Prison LETTER WRITING
Join the Abolitionist Law Center, Human Rights Coalition & Philadelphia Muslim Freedom Fund at Writers Room for in-person letter writing to incarcerated people in Pennsylvania.
Second Tuesday: Blues of The Bottom
Join Writers Room at the Dornsife Center from 4:30pm - 6:00pm for a special cyanotype and writing workshop about The Black Bottom.
Creative Kickback
Creative Kickback is Writers Room's bi-weekly evening event to be in creative community with each other.