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wild minds young writers camp

March 22, 2022 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

06 | 20 – 24  Wild Minds Young Writers Camp
Set your wild mind free in this fun and supportive week-long creative writing workshop! Learn how to write inspired and unique poetry, fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction while exploring the wild nooks and crannies of Crested Butte. This annual summer workshop is designed for teens to take their writing to a new level of skill, confidence, self-expression, and joy. Taught by award-winning teacher and writer Shelley Read, this is an opportunity not to be missed! Sign up for the whole week, a few days, or just one day. Space limited. Workshops will be held outdoors.
Instructor:  Shelley Read
Ages: 12 – 17  y/o’s
When: Monday June 20 – 24
Time:  9:30 am – 1 pm
Where: Meet at the Center
Cost:  $130 for the week or $30 per class
Full week pass.
Single day tickets.

Shelley Read’s debut novel, Go As A River, is forthcoming from publisher Spiegel & Grau. She recently retired as a Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University, where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and Honors for nearly three decades. Shelley is a regular contributor to Crested Butte Magazine and Gunnison Valley Journal. Her writing has also appeared in The Denver Post, The Breeder, Paradise Review, Mountain Kids Magazine, Foothills Literary Journal, and Denver Clarion. Shelley holds an MA from Temple University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program. She also completed a double major BA in English and journalism at the University of Denver, a graduate fellowship in aesthetics at Temple University Rome, and PhD coursework and comprehensive exams in literary studies and philosophy as a Dean’s Fellow at the University of Denver. Shelley is a board member and instructor for Vita Institute for the Arts and hosts the Wild Minds youth creative writing program at The Center. A mom, mountain goat, traveler, and third-generation Colorado native, Shelley lives and writes in Crested Butte.

Tagged With: crested butte, Shelley Read, summer, summer camp, teen writing camp

Pinot & (film) Noir; The Big Sleep (1946)

September 12, 2021 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

Join us for a flight of pinot noir and a very special screening of the justly celebrated adaption of Raymond Chandler’s classic novel. Private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by a wealthy family and before the complex case is over, he’s seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. Chandler’s core story, the peerless sexual innuendo between Bogart and Lauren Bacall (that somehow slipped past the censors) stack up in a classic that “holds out its hand for a right turn signal, then takes a left.” $30, includes film and a flight of pinot noir. Included in your festival pass.

Tagged With: crested butte, film, film screening, halloween, murder in the mountains festival, The Big Sleep (1946), wine tasting

“Wild Reading” Nature stroll + discussion with Leath Tonino

June 25, 2021 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

Celebrated nature writer and essayist Leath Tonino leads you on a gentle hike exploring the intersection of text and place. Read classic and contemporary nature prose while contemplating your own writing. Good shoes, hat, and water recommended. Meet at Three Ladies Park, 31 Butte Ave, Crested Butte.

Leath Tonino is the author of the essay collections The Animal One Thousand Miles Long and The West Will Swallow You. He recently spent a month as an artist-in-residence in Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park, hiking, writing, and rolling his sleeping bag out in an orchard each night.

Tagged With: crested butte, discussion, hike, leath toninino, literature, nature writing

Wild Minds Young Writers Camp

March 16, 2021 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

Set your wild mind free in this fun and supportive week-long creative writing workshop! Learn how to write inspired and unique poetry, fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction while exploring the wild nooks and crannies of Crested Butte. This annual summer workshop is designed for rising middle schoolers and early high school to take their writing to a new level of skill, confidence, self-expression, and joy. Taught by award-winning teacher and writer Shelley Read, this is an opportunity not to be missed! Sign up for the whole week, a few days, or just one day. Space limited. Workshops will be held outdoors with all social distancing protocols and safety followed.
Instructor:  Shelley Read
When: Monday June 21 – 25
Time:  9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Where: Meet at the Center
Cost:  $130 for the week or $30 per class

Tagged With: camp, crested butte, fiction, mystery, outdoors, poetry, sci fi, summer, youth writing camp

Kissidugu Virtual Performance Video: “A Safe Place”

February 17, 2021 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

Available for purchase now through March 27!

For purchases made now through March 12, a link will be sent to you on March 13.  For purchases made on or after March 13, the link will be sent within 48 hours after your purchase.  Use the link to view the performance at your leisure!

By donation. Suggested donation of $10 for individuals and $25 for groups. 

“A Safe Place” is a dynamic and exciting West African performance with renowned artist Fara Tolno, from Guinea, West Africa. Accompanied by his brother Etienne Tolno and a variety of student artists, this theater performance will include two pieces from the Crested Butte community who participated in a 3-week Artist in Residency study with Fara in partnership with the Center for the Arts, as well as incredible drum and dance performances by Fara and members of the Kissidugu ensemble. Live drumming arrangements, choreography, and original music by Fara Tolno.

Fara’s concept behind this piece: “We need to be safe at this point in time and our planet is calling out for help from all of us. This is the time to deal with our own issues that we have not been dealing with and to love everyone unconditionally.” Kissidugu means “a safe place.” This cultural arts extravaganza is sure to provide viewers of all ages a rich experience that promotes wellness and increases unity.

All proceeds go to support further cultural arts programming in CB and that a portion of proceeds go to the Kissidugu School of Music, Dance and Education in Guinea.
Video available March 13 for viewing at your leisure.

Tagged With: crested butte, dancing, drumming, Kissidugu Foundation, virtual performance, West African Dance

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