Gilbert Salazar, Unmasked Education

The Images of Story: How to strengthen story and character through archetypal images.

The ability to identify significant imagery in one’s personal stories and relate this imagery as themes in plot development and the crafting of characters is a dynamic tool for a writer.

This workshop explores how to unlock more story potential through the images and sensations present in your lived experiences through personal storytelling and listening. 

Over the course of 3 sessions, facilitators will lead writers through writing prompts and activities to provide opportunities to listen for images within personal storytelling. This workshop would help you write your stories more efficiently by identifying the images present in your lived experiences. 

Join: Richard and Gilbert in these 4 sessions:

Introductory Session: (Zoom) Thursday, March 19, 6pm

First Storytelling Session: (In Person) Friday, March 20, 6-9pm

Second Storytelling Session: (In Person) Saturday March 21, 9am-3pm

Concluding Session: (In Person) Sunday March 22, 9am-12pm

Materials Needed: Something to write on and with.

Two payment options:

Spilt Price- $200

Pay $100 when registering

Pay $100 by Friday evening, March 19, after class

Nonrefundable

Discount Price- $150

Pay $150 when registering

Nonrefundable

To apply, please complete this application

Based in Los Angeles, Richard Villegas Jr. is a writer whose work spans television, theater, fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism.

He was the originator and consulting producer of the half-hour drama series Vida for Starz, contributing to the show’s development from 2015 to 2020. His essays and articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Playboy.com, and New American Media. His ten-minute plays Cochino and La Tina Duty were presented at Casa 0101 as part of the Brown and Out Play Festival IV and VI, respectively. He is the author of La Música Romántica (CreateSpace, 2014), a collection of short fiction, and I Heart Babylon, Tenochtitlan, and Ysteléi (CreateSpace, 2011), a hybrid work of short fiction, poetry, and essays. His writings on teaching and queer identity in the classroom are published on his Substack, The Alphabet People: The LGBTQ’s of Teaching Kindergarten. His professional degrees and trainings are:

Gilbert Salazar is a Queer first-generation Chicano and citizen of the Tohono O’odham Nation, who works as an educator and artist. His writing explores: queerness, masculinity, violence, spirituality and liberation, and he is interested in the genres of horror and magic realism to tell stories of oppression. As a playwright his first play, “Unmasking Hercules” was featured in Casa 0101 and Brown & Out's, "New Works Play Reading Series," and later produced as a workshop production by Josefina Lopez. Gilbert then co-produced his second full length play, Angelito, as a workshop production. Gilbert co-produced a short film based on his short play entitled, “Sippin,’” a story that explores what happens when white fragility is served in a cup. His non-fiction writing has been published by the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua Symposium (El Retorno), Entropy online journal, and most recently in Entre Magazine. He is also a contributing author to, “Colorizing Restorative Justice,” and the special arts edition of the International Journal of Restorative Justice. Gilbert is a lecturer with Service Learning at California State University, Monterey Bay and is a doctorate student at Pacifica Graduate Institute, researching imagination and possibility to liberatory futures.