About Us.
Welcome! The Lizard Circus Family Workshop is an intensive poetry workshop retreat formerly hosted at Lizard Circus co-founder, Craig Nydick's house in Deep Ellum. Our new venue is Top Ten Records, an Oak Cliff mainstay, and we are super honored to be working with them! Everyone invited has an opportunity both to listen and learn, and to teach and engage. It will be a potluck and BYOB. There will be round-table workshops, group activities, writing prompts and games, one-on-one feedback, and all of this in a supportive atmosphere! All who are interested should feel comfortable teaching in one area or another, whether that be performance, style, formatting, editing, visual arts, mixed media, or the process itself. This is a leading/learning workshop retreat, and a safe space for all! Lizard Circus happens every other month. Dates are apt to change but we host workshops on three Mondays out of the month we’re active, and then the performance where everything culminates happens typically on the last Friday of that month. For specific months and hours, please contact one of the LCFW founders or Lily Taylor of Top Ten Records. While the workshops are free, we charge $10 for the performance but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Workshops are by invitation only, and the performances are open invite.