WRITE ON - Home

WRITE ON - Home is an offering of Community Canvases’ Kind Fools’ WRITE ON intuitive writing workshops using the theme of “home” with communities that have a special relationship with the concept/experience of home. These workshops, in partnership with the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) provide a supportive and creative environment for an exploration of our individual and collective relationship with the idea, feeling, and experience of home.

In the summer of 2026, we offer workshops with immigrant communities with interpreters.
In the fall of 2026, we will offer a performance event to share our art (poetry, painting, dance).
In the winter of 2026, we will offer workshops welcoming these communities as well as our broader community.

Anyone is welcome at any of these workshops, as we discover our common humanity by listening more deeply to ourselves and each other. We will explore topics together including home, safety and belonging. In current political rhetoric, there is a theme that some people belong more than others. These workshops are a clear statement that everyone belongs, and an opportunity for everyone to express their truth and creativity in a supportive and barrier-free environment. By gathering in a fully inclusive space, where every participant feels empowered to fully belong and to fully welcome every other participant, we model together a feeling of safety, a feeling of belonging, and a feeling of home.

WRITE ON - Home 2026

  • Thursday, July 23, 2026 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm in Burmese & English
  • Thursday, August 6, 2026 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm in Arabic & English
  • Thursday, August 20, 2026 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm in Spanish & English
  • Thursday, September 3, 2026 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm in French & English

Upon request in advance, interpreters for additional languages can be available at any of these workshops.

The goal of this project is to build just relationships (and a common sense of community) among people across the city, to foster confidence in self-expression and writing, and to build paths of mutual respect and understanding. Putting the comfort and emotional safety of our participants first, we seek to discover what these writers create from their lived experience. What universal truths and commonalities arise among each group’s writings? What is unique in each person or groups’ relationship with home?

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For more information on this collaboration between The New York Immigration Coalition and Community Canvases’ Kind Fools, or to explore hosting these workshops with your community, please reach out to
        Anna Porter at aporter@nyic.org or (646) 740-7768
               or to
        Hy Carrel at hy@communitycanvases.org or (716) 259-2725



Funding is made possible through Arts Services Inc.’s Creative Impact Fund thanks to a New York State Senate Initiative supported by the NYS Legislature and the Office of the Governor, and administered by the New York State Council on the Arts.