As poet, essayist, artist, and warrior, I launch conversations through a variety of mediums, including film, television, radio, literary art, visual art, music, and movement.
If interested in contacting Rebecca Evans for interviews, empowerment workshops, writing workshops, readings, and more, you can reach her:
Some stories prove too hard to write.
My stories needed both expansion and reprieve—white space on the page, sound and breath and music. More importantly, I yearned to capture words that I’d buried, stories that scared me, memories I’d hidden. Many I’d forgotten.
I’ve found that traumatic narratives carry little language. Victims are already silenced and shamed and with only a small catalog of language attached to trauma, it becomes nearly impossible to express our pain. Writing about trauma helps us defy trauma. We create language where none exists. In my teachings I’ve infused empowerment coaching, journaling, poetic therapy, and visual art as methods to help others (and myself) access difficult narratives.
I’m drawn to uncovering fresh approaches into difficult experiences. I’m interested in both the process and the discovery far more than an end result.
Art, as a practice, has gifted me tools to access (and help others access) trauma, grief, and shame. At the heart of me, I’m a storyteller. And I am more than a story teller. I’m an explorer, and watercolor tends to offer one more medium, one more genre in which I, and those who join me, can excavate and make meaning of our lives.
I hope to move beyond borders and boundaries, and, in the process, hope others feel less alone in their own experiences.
Find Rebecca on the Air:
Story Story Night: The Love Connection: “Crazy Jewish Love”
