Community Studios

Participants will learn how to reveal (and withhold) information for maximum impact, experiment with pacing and tone, and discover how to sustain suspense in any genre.

In this session, we will explore how poets may blur the lines when describing grief and love. Sometimes it is hard to even tell which one they are describing. Through close readings and writing exercises, we will discover how both can become a language of memory, of showing grace, and of transformation.

In this lesson, participants will learn about the solarpunk movement and how these ideas can be applied to science fiction writing. They will then practice writing their own solarpunk stories that imagine a sustainable future.

Take a trip down memory lane and self-reflect on how your cultural identity played a role in your childhood experience.

Boundaries are invisible and yet crucial for loving ourselves and others. We’ll briefly define and discuss what boundaries look like for us before diving into a generative creative session.

In this studio, we will learn about comedy writing and practice looking for a comedic angle in everyday events. The main focus for this second studio will be creating personal, stand-up-style jokes inspired by the news.

In this studio we’ll be using sounds to tune into ourselves and lean into different emotions which we may be experiencing or have experienced in the past. Participants will be able to try out creative sound and audio techniques like audio journaling, song writing, and beat making.

This studio is for poets and artists alike, at any level, who want to explore and have fun with the connection between art and poetry. If words and art set your heart aflutter, you have the tools to create something you didn’t think you could.

Participants will learn how time works in a screenplay! Together, we’ll cover dialogue, montages, and transitions in this final session of our scriptwriting series.

Integration & Expansion of Nature Journaling: This studio will focus on integrating natural journaling into one’s own life, encouraging audiences to intentionally transfer energy, focus, and dedication in order to improve their health and mentality.

Adulting 101: Socially Awkward or Socially Awesome – This session focuses on making friends, navigating romantic relationships, and resolving conflicts within your social spheres.

In this session, participants will explore cultural storytelling as a way to understand self, memory, and belonging, and how writing can help process emotions connected to heritage and personal identity. Through reflective discussion and guided poetry writing, participants will examine how stories, both inherited and self-created, shape who we are and how we heal.

In this session, participants will explore color using collage and book cover design. Participants will translate personal stories into palettes and textures, letting color speak.

In this studio, we explore fantasy worldbuilding and discuss various categories as a framework for our own worldbuilding endeavors. Participants will collaboratively develop a fantasy world.

This month, attendees will explore the importance of defining a brand’s voice, and how this can make a lasting impact, regardless of scale or growth.

We will write from a choice of prompts that will inspire what you are working on at the time, or take you in a whole new direction, and discover more about yourselves as writers.

Participants will have the freedom to explore how they would like to present this problem to their fellow peers and teaching artists, whether this is through creative writing, journalism, mixed media, or more.