SECOND
TUESDAY
Our monthly workshop at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. Drexel students and neighbors come together to share stories, forge authentic relationships, and build an intergenerational community. 11 years strong, this is the signature Writers Room program.
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WORKSHOPS
room for error
YOLANDA WISHER
Spring Term teaching artist Yolanda Wisher hosts the first of three Second Tuesdays. In the “Room for Error” workshops, Wisher uses free writing, typewriters, and watercolors to encourage the community to create art with a sense of play, and without judgement.
cyanotypes
yannick lowery & sofie seymour
Writers Room partnered with artist and UnMapping Fellow Yannick Lowery for a collaborative cyanotype workshop using archival and contemporary images of The Black Bottom. Participants reflected on the neighborhood’s past, engaged with ongoing displacement and gentrification, and imagined new futures.
WITH LAUREN LOWE, Vivian Chang, and Debora Kodish
OUR STREETS
In collaboration with the Save Chinatown Coalition, the Our Streets workshop drew on the joint organizing histories of two neighborhoods now plagued by gentrification and displacement: Mantua and Chinatown. Respective community members reflected together on their relationships to city and street, asking “What can we preserve?” and “What is possible when we imagine together?"
CYANOTYPES
CYANOTYPES
CYANOTYPES
CYANOTYPES
CYANOTYPES
CYANOTYPES
CYANOTYPES
CYANOTYPES
ROOM FOR ERROR
ROOM FOR ERROR
ROOM FOR ERROR
ROOM FOR ERROR
ROOM FOR ERROR
ROOM FOR ERROR
ROOM FOR ERROR
ROOM FOR ERROR
“Everyone has a seat at the table, a chance to talk about the issues that plague Philly and how Drexel and others contributed to it. It's an outlet a place vent and you can feel heard.”
— ELAINA HAREWOOD, ‘25
“Second Tuesday for me is a time to fellowship with community members. I have seen the growth and confidence of writers who have been visiting the Writers Room for many years. Now they come early to write and share their thoughts. I have met so many gifted poets and writers. Yes, for me the second Tuesday is a time for fellowship, and interaction with my community.”
— BRENDA BAILEY
