This is a 5-day workshop. All classes run 9 – 4 pm each day with lunch included from 12 – 1 pm.
Many of us keep journals as ways of chronicling our days and experiences. Some of us may even take part in journaling exercises such as Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages, designed to get us engaged with, and in charge of, the unfolding of our days. But how many of us really allow ourselves to cut loose with our creativity in our journals? These are safe spaces designed to allow us to explore, but do we really push that envelope?
This course will support students in pushing beyond the boundaries of their current journaling practice. Instead of just writing down the day’s events and reflecting on them, we’ll explore the idea of the journal as a pre-production space, one that can serve as both a reflective space and as an incubation space for the ideas for future projects.
Through engaging and structured daily exercises in both writing and art, we’ll map, sketch, and collage our creative ideas, incorporating found materials from our everyday lives and from the natural world. Together, we’ll look at ways to make our journaling process even more rich and generative, the pages reflective of both writing and art, and full of concepts to expand upon in our writing practice.
Initial materials will be provided by the instructor, but all participants are encouraged to bring with them magazines,fabric swatches, photos, stickers, maps, coloured pens, stamps, natural materials – any materials that feel inspirational and generative. This course welcomes participants of all skill levels.
Price: $892
This price includes: tuition, daily lunch, material fees (if required), any applicable taxes and is listed in Canadian Dollars.
Dr. Jenna Butler (she/her) is an award-winning poet, essayist, and editor. She is the author of three books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and the Arctic travelogue Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Her newest book, Revery: A Year of Bees, essays about beekeeping, climate grief, and trauma recovery, was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction.
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