Writing With Family and Community Archives

Saturday, May 2, 2026
11:00 AM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque

Join us for a workshop with Amy Shimshon-Santo! Here’s your chance to experience a generative writing workshop that delves into family and community legacies! Please come with any images, artifacts, or oral stories you wish to play with on the page.

Amy Shimshon-Santo is a writer and interdisciplinary artist born on Tovaangar land (present-day Los Angeles), with family roots spanning the Americas and the Middle East. Her work—woven through poetry, essays, and community-centered art—moves at the intersections of memory, place, and change — tending to the fragile, luminous threads between personal history and collective healing. She is the author of five books — three poetry collections, a limited edition chapbook, and an essay collection. Her most recent works are Piecework: Ethnographies of Place (Unsolicited Press) and Random Experiments in Bioluminescence (Flowersong Press). Amy’s poetry appears in Prairie Schooner, Tikkun, ArtPlace America, ASAP/J, Zocalo Public Square, and more. Throughout her life in art making and teaching, she’s returned to the belief that arts and culture can cultivate awareness and sustenance across generations.