This month, we’ll briefly touch upon these barriers to entry, and discuss the other avenues that exist for using our writing to effect change, from educational flyers to social media posts and more.
This final studio will unite film with fiction novel writing and how we can use this as a means to explore character creation and development. We will engage in crafting original characters and putting these characters in situations and scenes from movies and incorporate these into an immersive writing exercise.
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.
From Solo Acts to Squad Goals: In the world of visual storytelling characters often team up to go on adventures or missions. Join our party to explore the group dynamics of characters on epic journeys through examples and prompts.
Recapping on session one and two learnings of “claim warrant impact” and “blowing up the balloon” while adding the art of rebuttal and contrasting arguments via weighing the validity of contrasting arguments.
This month, we'll be teaching studio participants tips and techniques of interviewing people for news stories, and then they'll have the chance to interview another studio participant.
This month, participants will listen to two spoken-word poems: both embody intense emotions that use poetry as a way of processing. They will spot similarities and differences, engage in a creative conversation, and ultimately craft their own.
In “Change”, the third and last part of the series, “Joy, Resistance, and Change”, we read work that explores cultural storytelling that differs from the dominant narrative about one’s culture, and then have practice writing our own.
This month, we'll explore strategies for writing about other people in creative nonfiction by viewing and discussing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Danger of a Single Story” and Philip Lopate’s “Ethics of Writing About Other People.” Then you’ll get a chance to practice through a writing prompt.
In this studio you will explore your language and develop a greater familiarity and facility with it. We will read texts that will inspire discussions and free writes.
