Community Studios
Mentor Support Group/Think Tank
Open to all mentees, all mentors and members
The Mentor Support Group/Think Tank is a space for mentors to meet up and talk about their GWN experience.
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Community Studios
Community Studios
Finding Your Voice: Creating Memorable POV in Fiction
Open to all mentees, all mentors and members
This month, we are going to talk about the relationship between voice and character. We’ll get to know our main characters and talk about the ways their personality traits, background, identity markers, and more influence the ways our characters think and speak, whether our narration is 1st person, close 3rd, or even 3rd omniscient.
Community Studios
Soul Tracks: Questing for Resilience (Expressive Arts Group)
Open to all mentees
What does it mean to be “broken”? And how do we reconfigure the pieces of your puzzling life to feel more complete? In this workshop, we metaphorically explore, through literature and writing, how the cracks of the mended kintsugi cup has its own beauty.
Community Studios
Writing That Changes the World
Open to all mentees, all mentors and members
Does objectivity in journalism exist? Is it okay for journalists to take a strong stance? In this session, we’ll explore writings on the topic, discuss cases where journalists were barred from personal issues, and examine barriers to advocacy journalism.
Community Studios
Writing Past the Page: Pushing the Limits of Creativity
Open to all mentees, all mentors and members
How thin is the line between dreams and reality? This month, we’ll explore surrealism in fiction and other creative forms. We'll also discover how to use dreams and imagination to craft compelling stories that defy reason and embrace the bizarre.
Community Studios
Memoir: Stories that Shape Us
Open to all mentees, all mentors and members
This month we will explore descriptive language, reading various examples of how color is described. Using guiding questions, we will process and discuss these works together.
Community Studios
Building Your Social Media Presence: A Responsible Guide for Beginners
Open to all mentees, all mentors and members
This month, participants will have a short tutorial on how to create a LinkedIn account and learn how to create a post that can best express their accomplishments.
Community Studios
Visual Storytelling: Comic/Cartoons
Open to all mentees, all mentors and members
This month, we will take a look at some examples of mythologies that exist through comics and animation, and develop our own mythologies!
Community Studios
Speak Up: Developing Effective Communication Skills for Life
Open to all mentees, all mentors, members and silver members
In this session, we’ll build on what we learned in session one, explore the psychological and social impacts of debate (aka “blowing up the balloon”), and learn how to accept, think critically, and refute claims tactfully.
Community Studios
Journalism: Styles, Stories, and Techniques
Open to all mentees, all mentors and members
This month, we'll be teaching studio participants the components of a compelling movie or TV review, and then they'll have the chance to start crafting a review of a recent movie they’ve watched.