The Art of the Story
4 Day Workshop | Available
Mark making, line breaking, all art is leaping: all art is witness. Like painting and drawing, writing too entails using skills and leaping into a creative process. The Art of the Story is a four day writing workshop that will help you tap into visual images that enable literary ideas to surface. In this workshop, you will explore new or existing writing (memoir, novel, or poetry) in a non-threatening and fun way. Through doodling, noodling, collage and word clustering, participants will learn the importance of imagination and play in the creative process while diving deep into scenes that have been lingering as feelings, intuition, vague memories, or sentence fragments and coaxing them into the visual landscape of an unforgettable story.
Notes:
- This workshop is for artists and writers working at all levels.
- Workshop takes place on August 19, 20, 21, 22nd: 10AM-1PM
Base Tuition: $240.00
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- What You Will Learn:
- The importance of mapping out or sketching the physical location of their story and the relationship between that physical place and character profile and development
- Gain a better understanding of gesture and movement in visual art and writing
- Explore writing that has been inspired by great art
- Discover that risk, surprise, and wonder are essential components of the creative journey
- Explore the world with language while seeing the world through an artist’s eyes
- Develop an existing piece of writing or begin a new story or series of poems
- - A journal that supports dry and wet mediums (for example: 12” x 9” Studio brand black ring bound from Dollarama; or 7” x 10” Stone Paper Sketchbook from Above Ground Art Supplies
- HB, 2B and 4B pencils
- Set of pastels or watercolour pencils
Jim Nason
Guest Artist
Jim is a freelance teacher, artist, and writer. He is the author of eight volumes of poetry, a short story collection, and three novels. He has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Award in both the fiction and poetry categories. His poetry book Rooster, Dog, Crow was Shortlisted for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award, and his poems have been included in anthologies across the United States and Canada, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008, 2010 and 2014. For over two decades, Jim has taught writing workshops and/or participated as an author or instructor at literary venues such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, and the Winnipeg International Writers Festival.