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Youth ClassesFEBRUARY BREAK Olden Days of Wizards, Knights & Daring Damsels Ages 6-8 Travel to magical times of enchantment! Enjoy stories and songs of wizards and dragons, bold princesses and daring knights. Magical puppets will introduce you to the marvels of the middle ages. Through games and crafts, find out about how kids lived and had fun in castle times. Through the power of your imagination and words, create medieval adventures and act them out as skits for family and friends. Pack a lunch each day. Ages: 9-12 We all know the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Or maybe we just think we do. Come make up your own bumps and twists to turn traditional fairytales on their heads. What lessons can we learn from fables? What lessons can we teach when we create our own fables? We’ll use songs, writing, storytelling, and acting to help us explore and reinvent old favorite stories. Family and friends will be invited on Friday afternoon where we’ll share what we’ve created. Pack a lunch each day. Creating Short Films For Broadcast: Documentaries Ages 14-16 In this unique collaboration between Writers & Books and Rochester Community TV-15, and in conjunction with the Raising 100,000 Voices project (a community-based education project on emerging adulthood) you’ll learn how to use the visual and auditory tools of filmmaking to create short documentary films. You’ll learn how to use the technical resources of RCTV-15: studio, backdrops, hand-held and studio cameras, Apple G-5s with editing software. As a team you will create short films to be aired on Channel 15. One of the projects of the week will be a documentary for Raising 100,000 Voices, sponsored in part by WXXI and URMC, which will have a screening of all films made later in the year. You will receive a DVD of the groups’ work. Pack a lunch each day. Saturday February 6, 10 a.m.-noon Why buy valentine cards when you can make your own? We’ll provide the materials; you provide the imagination. A wide array of special papers and sparkly adornments will offer inspiration. Writing experts will be on hand to help you find just the right words for that special someone. Come join the community of creativity! HOMESCHOOL CLASS: Ages 10-14 You enjoy creative writing. Join a group of young writers who are eager to develop new skills. This course will allow you to dig in, explore new approaches to craft, share your work with others, and learn to give effective feedback under the guidance of an encouraging teacher. Inspiring writing prompts will help generate new work, and revision sessions will help turn a good piece of work into a great one. We will look at how to begin and finish works of fiction that will draw in and delight readers, sharpen our skill with words through learning new poetic techniques and forms, and try our hands at dramatic writing. Optional “Fieldwork” assignments will allow you to further practice your writing skills. APRIL BREAK Magic Tree House Readers’ Club Ages 6-8 Take part in wonderful magical adventures from the Magic Tree House Series. Join Annie and Jack as they solve problems, help people, and travel around the world and through time. Visit New Orleans and swing with the music of Louis Armstrong in A Good Night for Ghosts, the latest book of the Merlin Missions. Like Annie and Jack, we will learn about the animals and people in each environment we visit. We will read some of the stories and act out some of the scenes. You will illustrate stories through art activities, and with a team, create your scenes and act them out for your friends and family on the last day. Pack a lunch each day. Ages 9-12 Discover the life of being a writer and what’s involved in honing your craft. We’ll listen for dialogue, visit with people in the profession like the editors at FREETIME Magazine, explore where to find stories at the RMSC and practice inspirational writing at the Memorial Art Gallery and George Eastman House. We’ll try out being reporters, story tellers, poets and script writers filling our tablets will tools of the trade because all good writing has the same criteria - come find out what it is and experience the writer’s life with us! Each writer will generate many new pieces during the course of the week, and will polish one piece for publication. The instructor will provide information on places to publish your work. Pack a lunch each day. ONGOING CLASSES The Actor’s Truth: Shakespeare Teen Shakespeare matters because the characters and conflicts he created 400 years ago have parallels with our personal dramas in the 21st century. Armed with the tools of the actor–body, voice, imagination, and honesty–we’ll explore scenes from some of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Together we’ll bring the text to life as actors always have: by marrying the author’s world with our personal truths. At the end of the class there will be a performance for family and friends. Please come to the first class with ten lines from any of Shakespeare’s plays or sonnets memorized. Teen (11 & 12 with teacher’s permission) Songs are everywhere. Love some? Good. Hate some? Interesting… Feel the urge to change some words, or some notes? Great! There’s a place for you in Writers & Books’ Song Project. Whether you write words, music, or both, Song Project is a place to find support, co-writers, and people ready to sing or play your song. Students can work on their own, or team up with others. The only requirement is a willingness to share your work with others and a desire to take it to the next level. Come to the first session with CDs and lyric sheets for your favorite songs. If you play an instrument, bring it (keyboard on site). Ages 8-12 Do you like writing poems? Have you ever written a poem on a postcard? Would you like to write and receive poetry postcards from other young writers? Would you be interested in creating a poetry postcard club? This workshop will explore the ‘short’ poem. It will teach you how to write a great poem postcard, and we will develop a working club of poetry postcard writers that send and receive poems through the mail. Ages 8-12 Would you like to become more creative? Are you looking for some inspiration? Many famous artists have kept journals that explore their creative process. How can these journals help us become better writers? This workshop will explore the exciting world of artist journals, and we will discover how to use them to build a more inspired writing practice. Ages 9-12 (8 with instructor’s permission) Poetry lurks everywhere: within a snow-covered branch, in the sound of a whirring engine, in the people we meet and see each day, in the recesses of our imagination. In these six sessions we will dive deeply into the world of poetry and the powerful tools a poet uses. We will examine and enjoy works by other writers and we will use innovative writing exercises to create our own poems. An encouraging environment will foster the creativity within this community of Young Poets. High School Join a group of like-minded teens who are developing their skills as spoken word poets for performances and slams. We will sample video and audio performances by prominent poets. We will get ideas for new ways to approach creating work, try new techniques, and give each other feedback on work in progress. We’ll videotape ourselves to see where we can improve. Guest artists will include Def Poets and HBO Brave New Voices! The second program of each month leads up to the 25 & Under Series (free admission); watch a showcase of various styles of local young writers and perform at an open mic.
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The Bertrand Russell SocietyHosted by: Dr. David White The Bertrand Russell Society was formed shortly after Russell’s death in 1970. Russell was born in 1872 and worked in fields such as mathematical logic; philosophy; social, religious, and educational reform; anti-war protests and politics. An accomplished writer, Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. This ongoing lecture series promises to enlighten and entertain. Monthly meetings are open to everyone, not just to members of the society. Monthly Story SlamMarch. 17, 7 pm An open mic of true loose and spontaneous stories based on one’s own life! Themes include: “Brush with the Law,” “Love Life,” “Embarassing Moment,” “True Tales from College”...but stories can be independent of the theme. This is an event where participants tell stories about their lives. The stories are loose and spontaneous, and the emphasis is on authenticity. See examples on Youtube by searching MothUp Story Slam. According to The New York Times: “Like the folk revival in the 70s or standup comedy in the 80s, all of a sudden everyone is doing it....Storytelling has exploded into a thriving genre all its own, a new avenue to prominence for writers and, increasingly, for actors and comedians.” Each performer gets approximately 5 minutes. Signup list at front desk 1/2 hour before. or sign up by emailing Carol Roberts at crobert8@rochester.rr.com with “Monthly Sign Up” in the subject line. Valley Manor Book Discussions1570 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. This is the “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book”. History Reading GroupHosted by Steve Huff Join Writers & Books’s history buffs as they explore the big issues and personalities of history. We do not choose particular books, but only subjects. You can read any book or other material on the subject and join the discussion. Meets on the third Wide Open MicMonday, March 22 W&B is proud to sponsor Rochester’s longest-running open mic, hosted by Norm Davis, poet and editor of HazMat Review. Known for its eclectic mix, Wide Open Mic welcomes poets, performers, and writers of all kinds. 25 & UnderTues. March 23 More than a quarter century ago W&B first opened its doors. To celebrate that milestone anniversary we initiated a monthly reading series featuring writers who are 25 and younger. Join us as we discover a new generation of writers for the next quarter century.
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