Writing Your Personal Obituary
[and working backwards]
2 Session On-line Workshop by way of Zoom
March seventeenth & nineteenth, 2026,
8:00 PM ET | 7:00 PM CT | 6:00 PM MT | 5:00 PM PT
This model hosted by Little Shadow Productions will likely be geared extra in the direction of puppet artists. Puppetry guild folks can use code poa10off for 10% off.
Hyperlink: https://www.littleshadowproductions.com/affords/CYFkhCY7/checkout
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
What in the event you imagined the top of your story first?
On this two-session on-line workshop, artists and humanities employees will write fantasy obituaries—then reverse-engineer them into clearer, extra aligned skilled supplies. Utilizing morbid humor, speculative pondering, and sensible storytelling instruments, members will collapse previous, current, and future right into a single second of readability.
This workshop is designed for artists who’re bored with being humble, caught, or frozen by imposter syndrome—and who need their bios, statements, and mission descriptions to really mirror who they’re changing into, not simply what they’ve already finished.
You’ve already died fabulously. Now let’s work backwards.
MORE DETAILS:
Writing Your Personal Obituary [and working backwards] invitations members to momentarily step exterior linear time—borrowing from quantum principle’s thought that each one cut-off dates exist concurrently. By imagining the top of their story first (their fantasy obituary), artists entry a sort of narrative superposition: long-hidden throughlines floor, imposter narratives loosen their grip, and aspirational imaginative and prescient turns into legible.
Throughout two reside Zoom periods, members will:
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Draft a speculative obituary centered on their desired inventive legacy
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Determine values, patterns, and future milestones embedded in that textual content
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Translate these insights into stronger bios, statements, and mission language
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This isn’t a standard grant-writing class. It’s a courageous house for creativeness, humor, honesty, and re-alignment—designed for artists who hate writing about themselves however nonetheless wish to be legible to the techniques they transfer by means of.
Prep Record — please arrive with:
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One or two obituaries that talk to you — nonetheless aspirational, poetic, or unhinged
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A present artist bio and/or assertion (in no matter state of denial it’s presently in)
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Elective however inspired: a primary try at your personal obituary or legacy assertion — messy drafts welcome, whether or not trauma-informed or blissfully trauma-uninformed
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A pocket book and pen (or digital equal) for jotting down ideas it’s possible you’ll not wish to suppose alone
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Emotional assist creatures inspired (dwelling, imagined, or inanimate — taxidermy counts)
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A secure phrase (you by no means know)
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Marsian De Lellis was a Los Angeles–primarily based transdisciplinary artist, author, and activist whose work centered puppetry, dolls, and performing objects. Their installations and performances used morbid humor and meticulous craft to create intimate narrative worlds centered on obsession, need, and legacy. Along with their inventive apply, De Lellis was identified for mentoring artists and inspiring them to cease underselling themselves—advocating for skilled supplies that mirrored not solely what artists had already finished, however who they had been changing into. In lieu of flowers, please take into account registering for this workshop.
