Lift your spirits and spark your creativity in this 2-hour arts-for-wellness in-person workshop celebrating Maya Angelou’s transformative poem, ‘Still I Rise’. Through reflection, lively discussion, and a hands-on art activity for you to take home, you’ll explore themes of strength, resilience, and empowerment. We hope you will leave feeling inspired and connected.

After reading and discussing Still I Rise, you will engage in a “found poetry” technique to create your own poem-within-a-poem, using markers, stickers, and other decorative materials to circle the words you find most striking and artistically obscure the rest. No prior artistic experience is needed. Just bring your curiosity and creativity!

Optional: Stay after the workshop for a pizza picnic, made by our host, Hearth & Hive, in their wood-fired pizza oven. Pizzas from $25, purchased on-site.

Workshop Fee: $65 + HST. All art supplies included. Complimentary beverages and snacks will be served!

Dr. Julie Sutherland is an award-winning educator and entrepreneur with an MA and PhD in English Literature and Modern European Languages (Durham University). She harnesses her expertise in the arts and humanities to advance social justice and personal transformation. Julie founded Art & Humanity Literary Services and Consulting in 2025, a company which exists at the intersection of language, creativity, and community wellness.

Hearth & Hive is a wood-fired micro-bakery on the Fundy coast. Products available Friday-Sunday in our bakery stand at 51 Forestdale Road in lovely Riverside-Albert. ALSO, Pizza Nights in the backyard through the summer! Friday & Saturday 4-8pm, Sunday 1-5pm