Dreaming into Poetry Pt.1
Instructor: Rose Nielsen
Structure: 4 classes
Dates: Tuesday, April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00pm
Fee: $180.00
This two-part course offers a poetry-writing approach looking through the lens of Jungian dreamwork as we search for images, symbols, and metaphors in our dreams, bringing unconscious material into consciousness. In the process, we will explore a variety of fixed form and free verse poetry to learn which forms might best serve the dream’s tone and theme. And we will venture into the realm of dreams as source material for the muse.
Deadline to register: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Analog Writing Process
Instructor: Deryn Collier
Structure: 4 classes
Dates: Thursday, April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Fee: $210.00
Explore an “analog” approach to writing that frees you from digital distractions. Working with big sheets of paper, handwriting, collage, mind-mapping, doodling, and voice-to-text techniques, explore an outside-the-box writing practice that engages your senses and imagination. For writers at any stage and working in any genre who want to experiment with stepping away from the computer to complete a first draft. Leave with practical tools to create new material with a fun, screen-free writing process.
Deadline to register: Thursday, April 3, 2025
Material List: While there is no specific materials list, participants are encouraged to bring materials they already have on hand or like to use. Some ideas might include pens, pencils, markers, coloured pencils, highlighters, various papers, washi tape, stickers, watercolour pens or pencils with paper. Large sheets of paper will be provided, and a selection of pens and markers will be on hand to use during class.
Painting from a Model
/no instruction
Structure: 2 individual classes
Dates: Sunday, April 13, 2025 (Class 1) & Sunday, April 27, 2025 (Class 2)
Time: 12:30 – 4:30 pm
Fee: $65.00 per session
Participants will have the opportunity to work from a model holding a single pose for an extended session (3.5 hours). No instruction is offered. Participants will be asked to bring their own materials in their preferred medium.
Deadlines to register: Friday, April 4, 2025 & Thursday, April 17, 2025
Explorations in Printmaking
Instructor: Myra Rasmussen
Structure: 3 classes
Dates: Wednesday, April 16, 23, 30, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 2:30 pm
Fee: $220.00 (incl. material fee)
Over the course of three weeks, we will explore 3 different basic printmaking techniques–monoprinting, etching and relief-printing. The first week we will make monoprints (one-of-a-kind prints) using jelly plates and flowers and foliage. The second week we will try etching, with the simple technique of scratching and cutting tetra packs (cartons used for food packaging) and running the inked print through a printing press. For the last week we will investigate relief printmaking and carve rubber stamps, which we can layer onto the prints made in the first two weeks.
Deadline to register: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Printed Clay
Instructors: Imogen Carter + Marcus Dénommé
Structure: 4 classes
Dates: Wednesday, April 9, 16, 23, 30, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Fee: $290 (incl. $60 material fee)
Printed Clay is an exciting new class that blends the worlds of fine art printmaking with ceramic pottery. Over the 4-week class, participants will design two graphics intended for two ceramics pieces and then screen print their artwork onto the clay. Be it a mug, a vase or other, by the end of the course each participant will leave with two screen printed ceramic pieces, numerous prints on paper and fabric, and a proficiency of silkscreen printing and ceramic making.
Deadline to register: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Fine Art Silkscreen Printing
Instructor: Marcus Dénommé
Structure: 4 classes
Dates: Friday, April 11, 25, May 2, 9, 2025 (no class on Good Friday*)
Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Fee: $340 (incl. materials)
This course is perfect for anyone and everyone–from those interested with no prior experience, to the experienced printmaker. Over the four-week class, the group will take on a self directed screen printing project with the support and prompts needed from the instructor, and become familiar with every step of this process heavy medium. All the medium specific materials are included.
Deadline to register: Friday, April 4, 2025
Life Drawing
/no instruction
Structure: 4 classes
Dates: Monday, April 14, 28, May 5, 12, 2025
Fee: $150.00
Drawing sessions will provide the opportunity to draw from a model with poses ranging from 1 minute to 20 minutes. No instruction is offered. Students are expected to provide the drawing materials of their choice.
Deadline to register: Monday, April 7, 2025
Tapping the Poetic Unconscious
Instructor: Rayya Liebich
Structure: 1 class
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Fee: $85.00
Sell your cleverness, and buy bewilderment – Rumi
For one day, let your inner critic take a long nap and give the right side of your brain permission to play on the page. Through a series of guided writing prompts we will tap into our unconscious minds and dig up the jewels hiding in our imaginations. Drawing from Liz Gilbert’s Big Magic, Austen Kleon’s Newspaper Blackout, and Natalie Goldberg’s techniques of entering sideways, we will write a series of new poems and come away with take-home tools and insights to awaken our unconscious in our everyday lives.
Deadline to register: Friday, April 25, 2025
☆ Minimum registration is required to run each class. Students will be notified in advance if their class will run as planned.
☆ Refunds will be issued to students who withdraw 14 days prior to the first scheduled class.
☆ Refunds will not be issued once the class is announced to run. In specific circumstances, partial refunds or credits will be issued.
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