Tag Archive for: Creative Writing

Illuminated Poetry
Tuesday, 6:00 pm
May 12 | Ages 9-12

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Launch into spring with this workshop on seasonal poetry writing! Learn to write your very own spring-inspired poems and create beautiful, illuminated illustrations to captivate your readers.

What You’ll Learn:

Students will learn and practice skills fundamental to creating original poetry, especially rhyme and rhythm. A brief history of illuminated manuscripts will be taught, with an opportunity to build drawing skills inspired by these historic texts.

What You’ll Leave With:

Students will leave with an original springtime poem and an outline for beautiful corresponding illustrations inspired by illuminated manuscripts.

Deadline to register by: May 8 

Instructor: Rebekah Trunnell

Supply List

All Supplies Included.

Writing the Wild Woods
Saturday, 12:00 pm
May 2 | Ages 13-17

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This prose writing class will help budding writers harness the power of “setting” by crafting their very own wooded world. Using poetry and personal experience for inspiration, each writer will use their pens as guides to explore the wild woods.

What You’ll Learn:

This class will analyze two Robert Frost poems as inspiration: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Spring Pools.” Writers will hone skills of imagery and discuss the importance of setting within larger works (like novels).

What You’ll Leave With:

Each writer will exit the class with an original prose description of a wooded setting and a brainstorm for how it might connect to a larger work.

Deadline to register by: April 28 

Instructor: Rebekah Trunnell

Supply List

All Supplies Included.

Zines for Teens
Thursday, 6:00 pm
May 7 | Ages 13-17

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Want to share your story, your art, your ideas with full creativity? Then zine-making may be for you! Learn the art of the Zine (pronounced “zeen”): do-it-yourself magazines that anyone can make about anything.

What You’ll Learn:

-What a zine is (definition, brief history, and examples)
-How to fold a basic 8 panel zine
-What topic(s) to make their zine: fandom, art, fiction, personal subject, activism, etc.

What You’ll Leave With:

Students will leave the workshop with at least one classic folded zine that is of their own creation and the knowledge of how to make more in the future. If time allows, students can make multiple zines to take home.

Deadline to register by: May 3

Instructor: Gren Casas

Supply List

All Supplies Included, unless students would like to bring unique images, photos, or ephemera.