We Drink the Drum
A sacred gathering of storytellers — from playwrights to poets, screenwriters to authors, as we genre-blend, matchmake, & uphold tradition.What we know is this: storytellers are sacred, yet often we labor in silos of silence.Too many of us spend more time chasing the means to create than we do creating. And though our region is steeped in a deep, undeniable literary tradition, there are too few spaces (like actual spaces owned by us), and too little funding (like who solely funds writers in our region?) for our genres, visions, and voices to harmonize and blend.This evening, we gather to change