Ashlee Haze

An Ashlee Haze performance (or workshop) is a 60-minute encounter with the spectrum of emotions we experience as a part of being human. You can expect to think about your personal origins as she tells stories of her childhood and growth journey. Haze offers reflections on love and what makes or breaks it as she shares work from her book “SMOKE.” You can expect to be empowered as a woman, queer person, femme, or human just trying to become a better version of yourself. She’s funny, intuitive, and honest. You can expect to be surprised with form poetry such as haiku, and to be captivated by her comedic interludes. After her performance, be prepared to want to be first in line to purchase a book or merchandise with her trademark saying “Hydrate, moisturize, & mind your business.”

Workshops

All workshops are 60 minutes in length

Emotional Safety & The Art of Connection

This workshop will address poetry as a healing tool through the lens of connection. Ashlee Haze will discuss how fear, shame, and judgment tend to sculpt our work as artists and provide tools and insight to how we can be vulnerable in our work. This will be a lecture with a writing component. This workshop will be equal parts lecture, writing, and sharing.

Coping Mechanism: A Writing and Release Workshop

This workshop will explore poetry as catharsis through the lens of grief and distress. Attendees should be prepared to write through a source of grief that they aim to release or cope with through writing. Roughly 40% of the workshop will be open forum discussion about loss and life. 40% of the class will be writing to a prompt that aims to give the attendee a healthy way to process and heal from that which has caused pain. The last 20% being dedicated to the sharing of those writings.

The Fundamentals of Art as Business

This workshop explores business basics: establishing yourself as a business, tax forms, expenses vs. income, record keeping, contracts, and general best practices. This workshop will give artists the tools to effectively run a small business and to begin (or continue) connecting the art to the business.

5-7-5: The Art of Haiku

Effective Communication

This workshop will give attendees the tools to be heard by their intended audience and how to strategically communicate ideas. Ashlee Haze will detail how her writing brought Missy Elliott to her front door step (literally) and how your work can be a magnet to what and who you aim to attract. This workshop will be 50% lecture and 50% open forum/audience interaction.

Courage and Ethics for Artists

This workshop will address ethics in the arts and give students the tools to make bold statements in their work. Ashlee Haze will detail how artists can approach social justice with courage and how to navigate tough topics in their work. This workshop will be equal parts lecture, writing, and sharing.

Creative Project Management

In this workshop Ashlee Haze teaches how to take a creative idea from concept to execution. Students will learn how to set and keep project deadlines, how to identify key players and delegate tasks, budgeting, and how to coordinate events & performances. This is a lecture course and students should come with projects in mind to work on during the session.