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Workshops
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12
Red School House
10 a.m.:
Writing for Performance
Hilary Peach
$25. By reservation only
Create a short poem or monologue in class by researching four very different source worlds. Record your poem with the help of a scribe, and tune up the writing with a 'second reading' and some quick edits. Next, follow the poem from the internal world of imagination to the outside world of expression. Fully inhabit each image, transporting your poem on breath and gesture for a performance that is compelling, complete and original. Explore risk, rhythm, and first impulse. Allow the body you're in to be seen and stand in the fire.
2 p.m.:
Workshop for Young Adults 12 –19: Youth Workshop in Two Parts
a.rawlings
$25. By reservation only
Prepare for an afternoon of brainstorming and feverish creativity!
FREE YOUR CREATIVITY!
In the first half of our workshop, we will awaken our creativity and acknowledge then dismantle the self-censor by working through a selection of individual and group automatic writing exercises. We will discuss how these exercises may be used to trigger academic and business writing as well, leaving with new creative work and the tools to drill through writer's block and connect with our innate creativity.
DO YOU READ ME?
The second half of our workshop will challenge conventional English reading habits. We may investigate how we "read" road signs, palms, ads, newspaper, and concrete poetry. We'll create poetry designed for multiple reading techniques and engage outside-the-box thinking to dream up a variety of ways in which we can read.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 13
Red School House
10 a.m.:
Telling Tales: A Beginner's Guide to the Ancient Art of Storytelling
Jeffrey Canton
$25. By reservation only
Storyteller Jeffrey Canton offers participants a "hands-on" session that will focus on a variety of different techniques to choosing, learning and telling stories based on more than 20 years experience
as a professional storyteller and listener. Participants are encouraged to bring a very short story (simple fairy tales like "The Three Bears" or "The Three Little Pigs" or Mullah Nasraddin stories), family anecdotes, nursery rhymes or riddles to tell. This workshop will include interactive group work, storytelling circles and an opportunity for the particpants to tell their stories. A bibliography of storytelling materials will be provided. Particpants are encouraged to read Dan Yashinsky's Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the 21st Century as preparation.
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