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INTERESTING WAYS TO FAIL                 🧶
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How often have you wanted to draw, write, or try something new but stopped out of fear you’ll mess it up or worries that it won’t be “good enough”? When it comes to creativity, many of us feel blocked by our perceived failures or critiques from the past.
What if we approach failure with a more playful attitude? In this workshop we not only learn from mistakes, we embrace them. We work with failure as the construct it is, free to be reshaped or even destroyed. We’ll use creativity as resistance, taking the judgement out of failure and dubbing the idea of success as overrated. 

Come spend a couple hours with Daniel and Shayna exploring failure through writing and visual art. It’s completely ok to mess it up. You have permission to fail.Â
No previous writing or art experience is necessary. This workshop is process-oriented and fun for any level. Your facilitators are empathy-led educators focused on making a safe and inclusive working environment for everyone.Â
Your facilitators
Daniel J. Cecil is a writer and teacher in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Heavy Feather Review, The LA Review of Books, Barrelhouse, Miracle Monocle, and The Stranger among other notable publications. His fiction has been nominated for a pushcart, was long listed for the Dzanc Fiction Prize, short-listed for the Yes Yes Books open reading period, and has received the support of several residencies.Â
Daniel teaches travel writing and literature for Emerson College at their Limburg campus and is the founder of Honing House, an English-language, community-centered, and empathy-led educational resource that was built for writers all over the world.
Shayna Schapp is a queer Artist Educator based in Amsterdam. She has over 20 years experience working at the crossroads of creativity, pedagogy and social justice. Most notably, she spent 10 years as a core instructor with Interactive/Media/Design (I/M/D) at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and 6 years as the Community Art Developer for LEAD, an after-school arts program in Amsterdam.


Shayna’s artistic focus is photography and drawing. Her work has been in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, NL, and UK, is part of public and private collections, and has appeared in publications such as Versal Journal, Pigeonhole, and SMART Papers.Â
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18-19 bar*soup
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21-22 bar*cakeÂ
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To keep our space running
we ask a participation fee of 20 euro
which can be paid at the doorÂ
or via our ticketing system.
If you can’t afford it contact usÂ
and we’ll grant you a donation-based spot.Â
If you can easily afford itÂ
please consider making a donationÂ
that will finance your brothers'/sisters’ spot.Â
Solidarity is at the core of the human experience. Together we cultivate it.
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