Writing Workshops

Writing workshops

Artist Field Day

Thursdays, 10am–1pm, May 10, June 7, August 2

Facilitator: Reisha Holton

Lace up your hiking boots or slip on those walking shoes. Stash your sack lunch in your backpack. It’s an artist field trip! There’s nothing like nature and the outdoors to inspire creative work. This 3-hour event will be a Thoreau-type experience: a …

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Twyla Tharp’s “The Creative Habit” Study Group

Wednesdays, 10am–12pm, May 16 & 30, June 13 & 27, July 11 & 25

Instructor: Ellen Borison  

Twyla Tharp is a dancer/choreographer who in her 40 year career introduced a new vocabulary to dance.Her book, The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life, is a meditation on the sources of creativity, drawn …

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Pondering Pub

Third Thursdays, 6–9pm, May 17, June 21

Facilitator/Host: Reisha Holton

The Pondering Pub is excited to introduce a new element to the Eastside’s only open creative space: Show and Tell.

Creative time will be from 6-8pm in the Art Center. Browse through the “library” of books and prompts, catch up on your own reading, sketch …

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Igniting Creativity

Saturday & Sunday, June 2 & 3 (2 sessions), 10am–4pm

Instructor: Jacqui Beck

Join this inspiring, stimulating, hands-on class to experiment and experience many ways of expressing yourself in a safe and nurturing environment. Through this process, you will discover more meaning, purpose, enjoyment, and inspiration in your life.

Everyone is welcome, whether you are …

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Farewell, Inner Critic! Welcome, Artist Within!

Saturday & Sunday, June 23 & 24 (2 sessions), 10am–1pm

Instructor: Gail Baker & Christina Malm

We will begin by exploring the inner critic in body-centered meditation, creating a sculptural paper doll,  then banishing the symbolic critic paper doll with a burning ritual and writing.

Then we will re-connect with our bodies’ awareness of …

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