Book Autumn
Want to book Autumn for a keynote event, writing workshop or training? Read on for details about how to book Autumn.
SPEAKING & WORKSHOPS
Autumn believes that the more we experience our own power, the less and less rational it seems to continue engaging in systems that disempower us. She delivers powerful keynotes about care and resilience, and facilitates writing workshops design to awaken collective imagination as a radical practice. Her creative practice centers on building the new world here and now, and channeling the stories our ancestors wish to be told.
Autumn has offered keynotes, institutes, and writing workshops for:
The University of Minnesota’s Indigenous Women and Women of Color Student Summit
Lewis & Clark College's Ray Warren Symposium
King County's Communities of Opportunity Summit
Arizona State University’s Center for Imagination in the Borderlands
The University of Minnesota in Duluth
The YWCA of Madison's Racial Justice Summit
Michigan State University's WILD Conference
The American Music Therapy Association Annual Conference
The North American Drama Therapy Association Annual Conference
Bog and Thunder
...and many others.
Events and Offerings
The Keynote
The Keynote is a 60-90 minute event, can be virtual or in person, and is typically offered in the context of a conference, network gathering, or fellowship program. Institutions and organizations book Autumn to come and speak to their groups on a variety of topics related to her 20+ year history as an organizer and facilitator in social justice movements. From Black Feminist principles to emergent strategy, from consensus societies and mutual aid to resilience and healing justice, Autumn delivers powerful keynotes that challenge audiences to be more visionary, more honest, more vulnerable, and more aligned with the needs of the planet and people at this time on the clock of the world.
The Racial Justice Institute
The Institute is a 3-hour event, can be virtual or in person, and is typically presented as a part of a conference or network gathering. During this event, Autumn guides participants in an exploration of our shared lineages of justice and freedom work, through the lens of Black Feminist principles and Healing Justice practices. She draws on her own body of work as an organizer and movement strategist, while leveraging the collective wisdom in the room and the individual presence of each person. Her participatory style of facilitation is rooted in a popular education methodology and an adept use of improvisation, intuition, and embodiment practices.
The Visionary Fiction Writing Workshop
The Writing Workshop is a 1-2 hour event, focused on the imagination as a site of transformation. This offering can be made virtually or in person. Using a collective worldbuilding methodology developed by members of the Octavia’s Brood anthology, as well as Autumn’s own tools for development of characters and voice, Autumn supports participants to use speculative and visionary fiction writing as a tool for imagining more liberated futures.
Contact us here to tell us about your event. We can provide sample descriptions of keynotes, institutes, and workshops upon request.
Autumn Brown presenting on The Wheel of Oppression and Liberation, a Black Feminist model for resilience developed by Monica Dennis
Photo by Dwight Dunston
Autumn with participants at the YWCA Madison Racial Justice Summit