• Community Studios

    Creating Through Uncertainty

    In this session, sound will be used as a tool for self-reflection and emotional exploration, allowing participants to tune into emotions they may be experiencing or have experienced in the past. Participants will explore creative sound and audio practices such as audio journaling, songwriting, and beat-making.

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    Fictional World Building: Creating a World Readers Won’t Want to Leave

    In this lesson, participants will be asked to explore and define the movement and change that happens within fictional worlds and within the fictional world they are creating. The exploration will be fostered by participants looking at fictional worlds and the ways that different elements of storytelling change fictional worlds.

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    Expand & Release: Meditative Techniques for Compassionate Writing Practice

    In this interdisciplinary studio, attendees contemplate crises that they feel compassionate toward and develop methods to address them in their writing. Attendees will participate in a meditation and complete writing activities designed to encourage mindfulness of the world around them.

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    Turn Your Pop Culture Passion into Journalism

    In this session, we’ll hone our reporting skills by observing what works (and doesn’t work) in the viral celebrity interviews dominating your feed today. Whether you want to weave insightful interviews into your nonfiction work, or are simply curious about different journalism career pathways, this one is for you!

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    Art & Design: Exploring Artistic Forms

    Creative burnout (that “I-have-ideas-but-also-none” feeling) is more common than you think, and in this session we’re unpacking why it happens and how inspiration is hiding in your everyday life: your texts, routines, memories, even the “boring” stuff. As it turns out, the creativity isn’t gone. You just haven’t been looking in the right places. So join us to unpack it and get your creativity flowing again.

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    Putting the ME in Memoir

    The way you frame your voice…is your choice! Join this studio to learn how to develop a narrative voice that is unequivocally and uniquely YOU!

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    Poetic Restoration: Nurturing Wellness through Creative Writing

    Though writing, we can explore themes of uncertainty, and can choose when to be truthful. In this session, students will learn conversational writing by identifying their writing styles, and truthful feelings that they want to write about in a conversational way.