Learn how to develop your memoir writing craft with Edvige Giunta, a seasoned narrative memoir writer and professor.

Memoirs hold the key to time travel. A letter, a dish, an item of furniture, a door, a street, a face, a gesture, a smell, a sound, a touch—anything conjured through memory can become a passport for traveling into the past, for crossing the divide between the living and the dead. In immigrant memory, whether one is a recent immigrant or the descendant of immigrants, these crossings are part of an invaluable project of recovery, reclamation, rewriting, and understanding.

Through prompts that cross temporal borders and break geographical and identity boundaries, this generative workshop will lead participants to lands where the unexpected and the forgotten appear on the page, where we speak to ghosts and, listening intently, become their scribes.

This memoir workshop is offered in conjunction with the Italian American Studies Association and the University of Pittsburgh.

Note Bene: Speaker is remote, audience is in-person. Workshop attendees will get to explore collections from the Heinz History Center’s archive, including letters, photographs, immigration documents, and newspapers.

Admission

Tickets to the workshop are $15 for adults and $10 for members. If you plan to attend both Italian American workshops – “Mining the Diaspora” and “The Living and the Dead” – on Oct. 27, the cost is $25 for adults and $20 for members for both programs. After registering for one workshop, non-members will receive a discount code to use for a reduced price when registering for the second workshop.

Please register in advance online at the Heinz History Center

The workshop will be held in the Heinz History Center’s Detre Library & Archives on the museum’s sixth floor, 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

For more information, please contact Melissa E. Marinaro at memarinaro@heinzhistorycenter.org or 412-454-6426.