{"id":558,"date":"2025-02-11T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/writopiaspeaks\/?p=558"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:47:49","slug":"turning-the-page-virtual-cozy-crafts-on-saturday-february-8th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/writopiaspeaks\/turning-the-page-virtual-cozy-crafts-on-saturday-february-8th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Page &#8211; Virtual Cozy Crafts on Saturday, February 8th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by Lena Roy, Head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/programs\/what-we-do\/creative-writing\/teen-creative-portfolio\">Writopia Lab\u2019s Creative Portfolio Program<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXftmdFRsRRjQmmE7UsBO-vhbSNqEUuC4FQkthOqwKWV7tLOsxPr3BsONkfW1XNHvTJ8MbZQB44bOWTcItsrDV_YVaPSWqqr4LPHFoU8XVn7DfAzWedVG85OsyYuPZMHkPDiTXHfUA?key=TMS34fSMdGIQPE522l_TK20w\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Turning the Page (TtP) hosted a Virtual Cozy Crafts event this past Saturday afternoon while many of us in the Northeast were preparing for a snowstorm! TtP is a literary social justice committee started by members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/programs\/what-we-do\/creative-writing\/teen-creative-portfolio\">Creative Portfolio program<\/a> in 2019, whose main purpose is to create an Anthology based around a certain theme touching on social justice. They are tasked with doing everything from promotion to reading and discussing submissions, to laying out the book.\u00a0 This year is being led by sophomore Sonali Browning and senior Emi Shapiro (Dartmouth \u201829) with twelve other Creative Portfolians \u2014 Sophia Alvarez, Emily Appleyard, Nola Brooks (UChicago, \u201829), Nell Choi, Rory Frasch (Bryn Mawr, \u201829), Thuy Holder-Vinh, <meta charset=\"utf-8\">Bee Kanofsky, Annika Lamberti, Serine Lee, Mai McKelvey-Pham, Berrit Nordlander-Borowski, Lili Sella, Margalo Teich\u2014who contribute to our meetings every Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turning the Page leaders are creating buzz for their upcoming annual Anthology called <em>SPECTRA<\/em>. They are looking for submissions (fiction, poetry, personal essay, art, photography, etc.) that have something to do with opposite ends of the spectrum and the dialectics around meeting in the middle. They are accepting <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdzma2BDkX8CQRuKZtLwKXWn8NL6sj4xPGD2Xue4Ursj81h5w\/viewform?usp=sf_link\">submissions for <em>SPECTRA<\/em><\/a> through March 31st, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonali hosted Saturday\u2019s event, and in attendance were Annika Lamberti, Robbie Kruger, Bee Kanofsky, Nola Brooks, Margaret Torrey, Emily Appleyard, Naomi Jeske, and Emi Shapiro. Sonali encouraged everyone to create a Moodboard (on shared Google Slides) to explore this idea of spectrum. Here are just a few of the plethora of spectrum guidelines that TtP came up with beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Nostalgia (from past to present)<\/li><li>Belief (from atheism to profound faith)<\/li><li>Trust (from distrust to trust)<\/li><li>Time (from past to future)<\/li><li>Bias (from uninvolved to influenced)<\/li><li>Visibility (from invisible to visible)<\/li><li>Normality (from normal to unusual)<\/li><li>Loneliness (from accompanied to alone)<\/li><li>Comfort (from comfort to discomfort)<\/li><li>Perspective (from narrow to open-minded)<\/li><li>Freedom (from free to confined)<\/li><li>Color (from monochrome to spectrum)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After sharing the moodboards, and deepening our discussion of ways to look at things from the perspective of a spectrum, Emi created a super fun game of Kahoot for the group, with all writerly\/ Writopia questions. A wonderful time was had by all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this article:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-558\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/writopiaspeaks\/turning-the-page-virtual-cozy-crafts-on-saturday-february-8th-2025\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-558\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/writopiaspeaks\/turning-the-page-virtual-cozy-crafts-on-saturday-february-8th-2025\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/writopiaspeaks\/turning-the-page-virtual-cozy-crafts-on-saturday-february-8th-2025\/?share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/writopiaspeaks\/turning-the-page-virtual-cozy-crafts-on-saturday-february-8th-2025\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writopialab.org\/writopiaspeaks\/turning-the-page-virtual-cozy-crafts-on-saturday-february-8th-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Lena Roy, Head of Writopia Lab\u2019s Creative Portfolio Program Turning the Page (TtP) hosted a Virtual Cozy Crafts event this past Saturday afternoon while many of us in the Northeast were preparing for a snowstorm! 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