Loft Themes

Big Ideas Readers Seminar: Choice and Chance
Sep 8–Dec 1 | Taught by Arriel Vinson

This class will explore what luck, chance, and fate look like for different people. We will use Nicola Yoon’s The Sun is Also a Star and Danielle Evans’ The Office of Historical Corrections to guide us through what it means to be privileged, what it means to be forgotten, and what it means to be powerless.

Whose Story? Our Story! Digital Design, Interactive Fiction, and Power
Sep 19 & 26 | Taught by Roohi Choudhry & Shiva Muthiah

This youth class will explore social identity and how it informs the choices we make as artists and as people.

Big Ideas: What Control Do We Actually Have?
Sep 22, 7 p.m. | Featuring Nicola Yoon, Danielle Evans, moderated by Arielle Vinson

Best-selling authors Danielle Evans (The Office of Historical Corrections) and Nicola Yoon (The Sun Is Also A Star) will discuss luck and fate and how they might dictate our lives.

Finding Your Story, Telling Your Truth
Starts Sep 23 | Taught by Carolyn Holbrook

In this class, we will explore how to write about your perspective and experiences. This class is part of our Choices & Chance Theme: by exploring our own stories, and the circumstances in life that help to weave them, we'll examine our relationship to the power of our own narratives and the choices we have to amplify our own, and others', lives and voices.

Tarot Tells the Story
Oct 24 | Taught by Phoebe Tsang

This class is for adventurous writers looking for a writing tool that can enhance your creativity, overcome writer’s block, generate stories, and further your writing goals.

Refugee Stories
Nov 12 | Featuring Kao Kalia Yang in Conversation with Jessica Goudeau

What effect does choice and chance play when entire groups of people are displaced by socio-historical moments beyond their control? Two authors whose new books center on refugee experiences will be taking part in an online discussion.