Mirror, Mirror: Perspectives From Within Workshop with Latasha Drax

Join us for Mirror, Mirror: Perspectives From Within, a writing workshop with Hypatia artist-in-residence, Latasha Daneille (Drax). Free/Public Workshop Description: Every day, we navigate dualities—the public faces we wear, the private selves we keep, and the mirroring viewpoints of our everyday lives. In "Mirror, Mirror: Perspectives From Within" (an interactive ekphrastic workshop with a twist), participants will examine an original art-and-poetry collaboration and use a critical-thinking lens to explore social context and personal identity. Latasha Daneille is honored to bring this reflective workshop to the creative community at Marmo. Through this multi-layered session, each will walk away with their own great work of art and a greater shared perspective. What to Bring: A notebook, your favorite pen, and an open mind. Facilitator Bio: A poet and prose writer, Latasha Daneille is a free-spirited and fierce storyteller from Brooklyn, New York, whose voice illuminates the unvarnished human experience with the triumph of hope. Known for her incisive social commentary, she strategically uses multimedia platforms for creative expression. Her most recent works include the poetry mixtape A Piece of Mind, the nostalgic CD-styled poetry book Pandemonium: Poems from a Pandemic, and the acclaimed animated video poem “Brooklyn Strong,” which was exhibited as a standalone installation at the 2024 Film and Video Symposium in Los Angeles. Her debut short film, Retrospection: A Look in the Mirror, was created for Reimagining Myself®—an arts-based, trauma-informed reentry program of Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), the organization that the three-time Oscar-nominated feature film Sing Sing was based on. Retrospection is currently being shown exclusively in New York state women's prisons as part of the program’s curriculum. Latasha Daneille’s poetry and prose appear in Djeli Journal’s Spring 2026 debut, Unbroken, Unbent, Unbowed, A Second Helping of Gumbo for the Soul: More Liberating Stories of Memories to Inspire Females of Color, Iron City Magazine: Issue 6, and more. She is the author of Metamorphosis of Rhythm, the ebook devotional From Dusk to Dawn, and her poetry chapbook, Love Bears All.