Write Your OwnMito Workshop
After Schoolin Rm. 207
Presented byLakin Valdez and Maya Malan Gonzales
A Collaborationbetween Latinos Unidos, LAHS Advanced Drama, and Writers' Workshop
Bywriting a "Personal Mito" Lobos Writers will explore threeancient Mayan precepts of: 1) In Lak’ Ech, whichmeans You are my other self-if I love and respect you, I love and respectmyself; 2) Menyah, which is the Mayan workethic, meaning To Believe is to Create, to Do with Love and Pain; and 3) K’ukulkan AKA Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent orEnlightened Being of the Americas, as the Link between Popular Art andSpirituality.