Writing News Letter
May to August 2005
Dear Writer in early winter ‘05
The time of night fires approaches. If words are twigs may you make a fire of words
this winter.
I’m just back from co-facilitating a men’s retreat. We worked around a fireplace
at Ixopo. Eighteen men wrote the names of absent friends, troubled friends, sons and fathers on slithers of wood. We stacked them
and lit the fire.
I have been thinking about the conversation we have with ourselves as writers. How writing lights
the fire of the self. We begin to
spark and flare and give
off warmth.
A reminder about the Winter story-telling
event in
Here are the May to August
workshops – in
If there are specific workshop themes you would like in your area, speak – speak!
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Writing
and illustrating for children
Fri 20 - full
day - Sat a.m. 21 May
R380
Dorian works with world-class illustrator, Marjorie van Heerden.
This workshop explores the edges of conversation between
text and illustration. Beginner writers for children or writer’s who don’t
illustrate are welcome.
Ancestors and Family: Writing Family Stories
Sat 28- Sun 29 May
R780
One day we too will be ancestors. Our stories will be
gifts for those we leave behind. We write those stories and place them next to
those of our family, immediate, extended and chosen. The idea of family
includes not only blood but our spiritual tradition, culture and the line of
those who have influenced us. The workshop also touches on healing the family
tree.
Venue: 1
Spirit, Myth and
Archetype: A Writing Workshop
Sat 11- Sun 12
June
R620
In this workshop we explore our life stories and fiction
in relation to the patterns that lie beneath the surface. The workshop offers
insights into what myths and archetypes are and how they influence our lives.
Venue: 4
Fair Lady Magazine Winter Workshops 2005
In
R650
(see July Fair Lady)
Family and Ancestors: Giving our Stories
as Gifts
One day we too will be ancestors. Our stories will be
gifts for our families . In this workshop we connect
to our creativity and imagination and write these stories. The idea of family
includes not only blood but our spiritual tradition, culture and the line of
those who have influenced us. The workshop also touches on healing the family
tree.
Bring writing materials, any family memorabilia e.g.
photos, old magazines, scissors
Venues to be announced
And leapfrogging
ahead…
Spring Workshops:
The Bigger You;
Writing Longing and Belonging
I
am not I. I am the one walking beside me. (Jiminez)
When we think of a relationship, most of us think of relating to other people – a lover, a spouse, a child, a friend.
But what about the relationship with the person we have known longest -
ourselves -? Can
writing open to a lifelong love affair with yourself?
This workshop explores ‘the companion self.’ That part of me that accompanies all I do – the part that Carl Jung called the twin. As Ray Bradbury, the writer, suggests “I do not write. The other me demands
emergence constantly.” But who are ‘the other me’s?
And how do I find them? The workshop attempts to answer these questions.
Venues to be announced
Summer Workshops:
And Summer in the Helderberg
Somerset West 23-27 Nov
Why not join the second
R1880
includes
*tuition
* one-on-one
mentoring
*one email
follow up consultation
* files and a
surprise gift for writers
*most meals * nature reserve admission
reasonable B & B close in Somerset West or nearby Gordon’s Bay,
May your words warm you