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MWF: “Screenwriting with a Sense of Place” workshop with Alessandra Bautze

May 11, 2023 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

In this 90-minute screenwriting workshop appropriate for all levels, writers will learn the basics of screenwriting while focusing on how to create a sense of place. Attention will be paid to excerpts from adapted screenplays with a strong sense of place and their source material. Texts to be examined may include Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2009), based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, and Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005), based on the short story by Annie Proulx. Writers will put what they’ve learned into practice by generating a scene (either original or an adaptation of their own work).

 

Alessandra Bautze is Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at Georgia State University. She holds an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from The University of Texas at Austin, as well as a B.A. in The Writing Seminars and Film & Media Studies from The Johns Hopkins University. Her work seeks to reflect the diversity of the American experience while also embracing a socially-conscious, realist approach to narrative. Her screenplay RACING THE WOLF GOD won Best Screenplay at the 2021 Anchorage International Film Festival. Set in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska, this drama follows a 26-year-old Yup’ik woman and former champion musher who, after ten years in prison, faces the challenges of re-entry as she finds herself back in the world of dogsled racing—the exact activity that led to her incarceration in the first place. In addition to her work as a writer, Alessandra also works as a script consultant, most recently for SignWorld Studios, a Deaf-owned production company focusing on producing authentic media in American Sign Language and English. In November 2021, she was one of six writers selected to participate in the 2021 Nanjing International Writers’ Residency Program, where she participated in a virtual cultural exchange with Chinese writers. In July 2022, she returned to Alaska to participate in the Storyknife Writers Residency Program for women writers in Homer, Alaska. She believes in the power of language to connect communities.

Tagged With: Alessandra Bautze, all levels, screenwriting, workshop

Kids’ MWF: “Blackout Poetry” creative workshop

May 11, 2023 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

Brought to you by the Trailhead Children’s Museum, take an ordinary page from an ordinary book, and transform it into a one-of-a-kind piece of literary art! We’ll create original poems using paints, paper, markers, and more, inspired by another author’s words. Join us for this unique take on poetry as visual art!

Suitable for kids 8 – 11 years old.

$20 or included in your mommy or daddy’s festival pass

 

Sarah Broadwell is the Executive Director of the Trailhead Children’s Museum in Crested Butte. Although she is serving in a leadership role now, Sarah’s roots are in classroom and outdoor education, and leaps at any chance to share her love of literacy and learning. Sarah is originally from North Carolina, but has lived in Crested Butte for 6 years. She is passionate about children and their education, whether it is in the pages of a book, in front of an easel, or out on a hiking trail.

Tagged With: ages 8 - 11, blackout poetry, fun creative, kids, trailhead childrens museum, workshop

MWF: “World Building in a Hurry” workshop with Olivia Chadha

May 8, 2023 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

10 – 11:30 am “World Building in a Hurry” workshop with Olivia Chadha

How do you create a world that avoids info-dumps and over explanation? How do you avoid cliché and stereotypes in regards to identity and the world? Borrowing from N.K. Jemisin’s “Growing Your Iceberg” and other classic studies in worldbuilding, this session will explore techniques that will allow you to present your world without having to spend decades crafting languages from scratch. Part generative and part study in science fiction, speculative fiction and place this workshop will center on worldbuilding methods that feel intuitive and effective without taking forever.

Tagged With: “World Building in a Hurry” workshop, 2023 Mountain Words Festival, Olivia Chadha, sci fy, workshop, YA

MWF: “Left Out of History: Historical fiction workshop” with Kate Manning

April 28, 2023 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

Fiction can salvage astonishing stories of people left out of historical accounts and bring these forgotten figures to life. The past is full of scoundrels and ordinary heroes, and a novelist can find dramatic, vivid, and inspiring characters and events ready-made for fiction. In family lore, between the lines of textbooks and old newspapers, in the shadows of photographs, in letters and diaries, are plots and details that enrich our sense of the past. This workshop begins with an examination of the research behind two novels—Gilded Mountain, set in 1900s Colorado, and My Notorious Life, set in the1800s—both books inspired and informed by historical photographs, lost figures from the past, and enriched by old dictionaries like The Secret Language of Crime, Camp and Plant (about Western mining towns) and The American Thesaurus of Slang. It will include discussion of craft and research techniques, and how to transform just-the-facts history into drama and fiction.

Tagged With: historical fiction, kate manning, workshop

drawing + drinks (figure drawing)

November 28, 2022 by Jessica Taylor Leave a Comment

Join us for a very special figure drawing edition of Drawing + Drinks!

Draw from figurative inspiration and learn the fundamentals of the human form! We’ll cover everything from the observed figure to the narrative, and each session will introduce the skills needed to map the human face and figure. For an added twist, we’ll incorporate techniques from artists like Modigliani, Frida Kahlo and others. Students will use mixed media with foundations in graphite. No experience necessary.

5 – 7 pm | $45
In the Center’s King Community Room

Tagged With: drawing and drinks, figure drawing, workshop

drawing + drinks

November 9, 2022 by Jessica Taylor Leave a Comment

Learn the fundamental skills to help you become a better and more confident artist! These casual, supportive sessions focus on foundational skills like drawing with shapes, values, and proportions, along with observational drawing, use of a grid, and one and two-point perspective. Registration includes all materials, instruction, and one beverage of your choice (beer, wine, or a canned cocktail). Led by teaching artist Linsey Olesiak.
Jan 10, 24
5 – 7 pm | $45
Join us for one or the whole series

Tagged With: drawing and drinks, visual arts, workshop

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