Walk & Write: Bloomfield with Robert Yune

Join host Sherrie Flick as we explore the streets of Bloomfield with guest writer Robert Yune. We'll think and write about history, memory, and place as it manifests in front of us. There will be walking, writing prompts, an opportunity to write, and live readings from Robert.

About the Walk & Write Tour Series

Since 2021, local writer Sherrie Flick has led the popular Walk & Write Tour series for Shiftworks Community + Public Arts. The summer and fall of 2024 marks the fourth season of this successful program after three seasons of exploring Downtown Pittsburgh, Hazelwood, Morningside, the North Shore, and the South Side to name a few.

These hour-and-a-half tours traverse city neighborhoods and introduce tour-goers to various walking trails and footpaths. This season includes Flick working with guest writers Nancy Krygowski, Sarah Shotland, and Robert Yune, each exploring a different neighborhood and theme, such as noticing, inside/outside, the past isn’t the past, and immersion.

As participants walk these areas, they will have the opportunity to exercise their creative writing skills, responding to Flick’s writing prompts at each tour stop. The writing prompts are unique to each tour route and correspond with its surroundings. Each guest writer will read their work aloud during the program.

About Robert Yune

Robert Yune has taught creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, Chatham University, and Gettysburg College. His short stories, essays, and poems have been published in Green Mountains Review, Kenyon Review, and Pleiades, among others. His debut story collection, Impossible Children, won the Mary McCarthy Prize and was published by Sarabande Books in 2019. He serves on the boards of Autumn House Press and Literacy Volunteers of Upshur County.

Additional Information

This tour is appropriate for ages 16+. The tour route is easy, flat, sidewalk walking.

Registrants should arrive by 6:50 PM and check-in with Shiftworks staff. The tour will begin promptly at 7:00 PM.

This tour will take place rain or shine. Please be prepared for any type of weather. If there is severe weather the day of the tour requiring cancellation, participants will be notified by email 2 - 4 hours before the start of the tour.

Parking and Transportation

Street parking is available within the vicinity of the meeting location. If taking public transportation, there are multiple stops around the exterior of the parklet that serve routes 64 and 87. For more information and to plan your trip, please visit the Pittsburgh Regional Transit website at: https://www.rideprt.org/

Accessibility

This tour is accessible utilizing city sidewalks. To request additional accessibility accommodations, please contact Shiftworks directly at info@shiftworkspgh.org.

Photography, Videography, and Other Documentation

Participants should be aware that photography, videorecording, and/or other documentation of the event by Shiftworks, other attendees, or the media may take place during the event. Participants will have an opportunity to indicate if they choose to opt out of being included in event documentation, and our team will make reasonable efforts to accommodate these preferences.