Upcoming events
Dreams, Ancestral Healing, and the Spirituality of History
Join Dr.Rebecca Hall at The Sanctuary for a conversation about an Afrofuturist understanding of temporality, ancestral connection and retrieving subjugated knowledge of the truth of our resistance can create a spiritual link to one’s history. August 23rd, at 6pm.
What can you rely on as the world stops making sense? During the writing of Wake, I didn’t go looking for a spiritual tradition; One came for me. Visions of enslaved women who had freed themselves came to me in my dreams. I learned how to ask my ancestors to speak to me in a way I could understand, and in doing so, found modes of resistance. Afrofuturism asks us to imagine futures of Black liberation. To do so, we must understand the historiography that has brought us to our present moment, and shed limiting ideas around our construction of time. We must look back, to find the path towards our future.
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Conceptual Story Editing Workshop with Dr. Rebecca Hall
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Spend an afternoon with Dr.Rebecca Hall, to work on the foundational elements that help transform an idea into a compelling book.
After years of writing I’ve learned stories rarely begin as books. They begin as questions or something we cannot stop thinking about. If this resonates with you and you’ve been looking to turn your idea into a reality, my upcoming workshop is for you.
You may have years of research, pages of notes, memories, ideas, and experiences that all feel important. But how do you bring them together into a story that takes your reader somewhere?
Every meaningful story has a "red thread."
The red thread is the underlying connection that guides your reader through the journey. It is the question, idea, or purpose that holds the story together and helps your audience understand why it matters.
Finding that thread is often where the real work begins.
If you are struggling to shape your idea into a cohesive story, my upcoming workshop at Wake Productions Headquarters, Conceptual Story Editing, an interactive workshop designed to help you move from idea to creation is for you.
In this space we’ll explore:
What is the deeper story underneath your ideas?
What is the central question guiding your work?
What does your reader need to understand, feel, or experience?
How do you decide what belongs—and what doesn’t?
Through interactive exercises and breakout sessions, we will work together to uncover the foundation of your story and strengthen the connection between your ideas and your audience.
When I wrote Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, I began with years of research and a story I knew needed to be brought forward. But the process was not simply about collecting information, I had to discover the deeper thread that connected the history, the people, and the questions I was trying to answer.
That is the work of conceptual story editing.
I hope you’ll join me at Wake Productions Headquarters as we explore how to move your story from an idea into a powerful, meaningful creation.
I look forward to working with you.
There are two free slots available for community members who are not able to pay for this event- Please email info@rebhallphd.org for more information.
**************Masks will be required during the entire workshop************
Land & Liberation: Harry Haywood's Legacy in the Current Moment
Join Center for Political Education for a discussion of a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood, Negro Liberation, now in a new edition featuring a foreword by his daughter Dr. Rebecca Hall and an introduction by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. This event will feature a conversation with Dr. Hall, Dr. Burden-Stelly and renowned scholar and activist Robin D.G. Kelley.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
This event is co-sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Haymarket Books.
Book Release: Negro Liberation
Join Dr. Rebecca Hall and Kyle T. Mays as they discuss and celebrate the new edition of Negro Liberation, a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood. THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT.
Advanced literacy series: Reading as Resistance
Join Dr. Rebecca Hall, author of Wake, for a spirited workshop series where she will guide participants on how to read deeply, and how to develop an effective annotation system that works for you to help you retain crucial knowledge. We will study Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, a foundational text that reveals the history and consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and how it shaped Africa, which ultimately made it easier to colonize and then exploit that continent. This book provided a crucial intervention into the concept that colonization provided anything but destruction to Africa. They might have built roads, but they all led to the Sea, Rodney pointed out.
Writing for the Graphic Medium (in person)
Have you ever wanted to create your own graphic novel but you aren’t sure where to start? Join Dr. Rebecca Hall, award-winning author of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts for an engaging discussion about how she turned her dissertation into a graphic novel, and how you can create your own story too. Dr. Hall will explain the arc of the comic storyline, and the rules of comic grammar and when to break them to tell a more effective story. You’ll walk away with a greater appreciation of the comics medium, as well as practical next steps to bring the comic you have been dreaming of creating to life.