Events

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Upcoming Events

Coming Soon!

Past Events

  • Glow Up 2022

    Literary and Artistic Skill Sharing From ARMY for ARMY: A seminar in which ARMY spoke about a range of literary and artistic experiences!

  • The image shows an old-style microphone Caption: Dream Glow Open Mic (Drop) 2022 24 April - 5PM ET/ 2pm PT Come celebrate our second anniversary, read your work out loud and join in supporting fellow army writers and artists!

    Open Mic (Drop) 2022

    April 24, 2022

    Gennyvera Pacheco, Verónica Bastardo, Jordan Martin, Erik Lenz, ErinDyan, Monica Kim, Lauren R. O'Connor, Rue Sriharsha, Elli Wills, and Kieren Hart read their prose & poetry inspired by BTS!

  • The image shows dice on one corner and a game board in the middle Caption: Dream Glow Mag Presents: Go Go Game Night A BTS-themed Game Night Event on Zoom to kick off our 2nd Anniversary events Friday 22 April 8pm ET / 5pm PT

    Go Go Game Night

    April 22, 2022

    We played BTS-themed Taboo & Newlyweds with new and old friends! 🤩 🥳

  • The image is divided vertically by the middle. On one side, it shows a picture of an art studio with paintings on the walls, tall windows in the back, and a lot of light coming in.  Caption: Dream Glow Mag presents Studio Serendipity 2022.

    Studio Serendipity

    March 5 & 6, 2022

    We offered people writing and art prompts to create a piece, discuss with other ARMY, and submit work!

  • In front of a purple box and balloons, the text says "Dream Glow Community Night, September 10th 8pm ET/5pm PT Celebrate one full year of issues with the Dream Glow board, contributors, and fellow artists and writers and play BTS-themed games!"

    Community Night

    September 10, 2021

    We kicked the fall season off with an ARMY social event to celebrate our growth and community as well as spread the word for our next Fall 2021 submission deadline.

  • Title "Celebrating 1 year aglow!" Subtitled "celebrate with a game night and 1-1 workshops!" Bottom description text "The 1-1 workshops will focus on getting individual artists and writers fully prepared to submit work in literary magazine."

    1-1 Workshops

    September 11 & 12, 2021

    We hosted 30-minute individualized workshops to provide support, feedback, and guidance to anyone who was interested in submitting work to Dream Glow (or elsewhere).

  • Titled "Magic Workshop 2021" with 2021 underlined in dark purple. Subtitled "June 4th-6th, 2021." Description "Genre-specific Zoom workshops from the Dream Glow team in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, & visual art." Purple background.

    Magic (Work)Shop

    June 4-6, 2021

    The June 2021 edition of Magic (Work)Shop featured ​​a series of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and visual art workshops. Our board members offered crash courses on the different genres and conducted workshops on helping our community members hone their skills in the various genres.

  • Red Dream Glow logo. Titled "Dark & Wild." Subtitled "Warning! BTS causes creativity, poetry, art, dreams, why don't u get inspired?" Description "Save the Date: Dream Glow anniversary April 23-25, 2021." Blackboard with faint white scratches.

    1st Anniversary

    April 23-25, 2021

    We celebrated our 1st anniversary in style and gratitude with a series of events:

    • 2nd Grade Class Party (Game Night)

    • Open Mic Drop

    • Studio 2nd Grade (Workshop)

  • Intro text: "Dream Glow Mag presents Studio Serendipity." Description: "Draw or write using our prompts as we listen to BTS over Zoom! Writing Studio: Saturday, March 6; 4pm ET. Art Studio: Sunday, March 7th; 12pm EST." Dark red background.

    Studio Serendipity

    March 6 & 7, 2021

    Studio Serendipity featured a two-day virtual studio time for ARMY to work creatively on writing and art prompts and share with other participants. Our community members joined us over Zoom and used our prompt bank to write or create visual art while we listened to BTS. At the end of the event, we had an optional sharing section which produced some incredible conversations.

  • Dream Glow logo. Dated in red "December 4-6, 2020." Titled in black "Glow Up: BTS Fandom and Professional Development" with black underline. Subtitled in red "Hear from and chat with ARMY across a variety of different professional fields."

    Glow Up Conference

    December 4-6, 2020

    Glow Up: BTS and Professional Development was a three day series of panels where we hosted guest speakers across various disciplines talking about how BTS inspired them in their professional fields. We had guests with experience in visual art, psychology, physics, podcasting, religion and more. The event attracted over 150 registrants!

  • Title: "Rhizome Connect. August 7-16, 2020. Main Stage." August 14 Events: "How fanbases can improve the ARMY macro system, I Am ARMY: Exploring the ARMY identity through autoethnographies, Magic Workshop: Journaling and Creative Writing Masterclass”

    Magic (Work)Shop

    August 14, 2020 @ Rhizome Connect

    Dream Glow editorial board members hosted the Magic (Work)Shop: Journaling and Creative Writing Masterclass panel at Rhizome Connect organized by the R3 journal. This masterclass on creative writing and pop culture non-fiction was intended for artistic fans writing at any level. In the first half of the masterclass, we shared writing prompts, talked about turning enthusiasm about BTS into artistic projects, and discussed journaling and getting started on your writing. In the second half of the masterclass, there was a creative writing workshop where we reviewed and discussed a poem.