Workshop Offerings

The following are workshops I’ve developed and held in the past, and can offer again given the right timing and circumstances.

Interested in these or something similar?

Contact me at lkafafian@gmail.com for inquiries

Reading Coffee, Writing the Future

A virtual session for exploring the process and magic of reading fortunes from coffee grounds. Together, we'll walk through the process of making coffee for readings and workshop the ancestral tradition of speculative storytelling. Using images found in the cup as generative writing prompts we will explore potential visions of the future.

HBB Futurism

Your auntie's sitting room 50 years in the future. All your cousins are there – the artists, engineers, city planners, gas station owners, the ones whose jobs we don't have names for yet, and their kids. Conversation sways between neighborhood gossip and the politics of the interstellar federation. Of course, tea and cookies are served.

This workshop draws from art, literature, design and activism to delve into imagining the future from a Southwest Asian/ North African perspective, though we use Habibi here liberally to vision within and outside of SWANA communities.

*developed by Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Leila Abdelrazaq and Levon Kafafian

Weaving Worlds

Handwoven rugs and sci-fi/fantasy texts contain worlds, telling stories that reveal the utopian, reference the past and engage the imagination. Through the craft and process of rug weaving as conceptual counterpoint, this workshop offers multiple methods for worldbuilding as applied to futurist, scifi, fantasy and speculative writing genres. Each session oscillates between textile and text, providing a non-linear and interdisciplinary approach to creative writing.