Dorian has a furnished one bedroom flat with mountain and sea views 2km from the Gordon's Bay beach and the zany Bikini Beach bookshop. This is an ideal writer's retreat for those of you who need such a space. There is a built in braai on the balcony and a swimming pool in the complex. Reasonable rates - contact Dorian to enquire
The books we love are our first teachers. They offer private lessons in the art of writing. Attention closet writers, lovers of words, book clubbers, book lovers, I offer interactive talks on how to enhance your writing/reading pleasure and enrich your bookclub evenings. We consider how readers read, and how writers read other writers.
Stories at Home
This season I have been a storying for groups of friends…an evening, a fire, wine, cheese, breads and tales for the telling. Any rhyme or reason – birthdays, TV fatigue, the art of conversation, sommer.
any of the workshops on this page can be offered at a venue of your choice - just contact Dorian
The Poet’s Voice
An ongoing Poetry Reading and Writing Email Course
Your Life, your Movie
Life is a tragedy viewed close up and a comedy in the long shot
Charlie Chaplain
Imagine directing your life as a film.
How would you work out the story board/ line? How would you start it - with what dramatic sequence? What songs and theme music would you include? The Grateful Dead? Mozart? Who would some of the other characters/antagonists be? What symbols carry power for you? How would you represent them? What angles, lighting? What close-ups? How would you use the zoom? Where would you cut certain scenes? And the ending… and rolling credits? This workshop will respond to these questions.
Who should attend?
Anyone who:
is in the film industry – directing filming scripting
has a desire to write cinematically
loves the larger than lifeness of film and spends time at the movies
is writing autobiography, biography or fiction
Cinematic Speed
I love the generation film
that spans the forehead /of a family line.
the wheel spins hair
on a ninety minute reel,
forming fluff, now blond
then grey, now silver shade
sewn on a wintery head.
Dorian
Dorian is the purest storyteller I have encountered. Archetypes cling to his coat tails and hide in his book-bag hoping for a mention in his next work. Every creative writer should work with Dorian. Like Pilates for creative spirits, he re-awakens the story loving child within.
Tess Fairweather
If the session is well received, Fairweather Films will facilitate an extended workshop in 2010 where we put this idea into practice: Telling our own stories in our own films.
Jung said we walk in shoes too small. He also spoke of dreams as the royal road to the unconscious. This mini workshop explores how we can enlarge our lives through writing and the relationships it evokes. We also consider how the fictions we live by can lead to greater abundance and nobility of spirit… as king/queen.
R80
Thurs 19 Nov 17.30 for 17.45 - 21.15
288 Bulwer Street, City Centre (near Merchiston School) Pietermartizburg, KZN
Outer and Inner Journeys - A Creative Journal Workshop
You could travel into the inner man, or the inner woman.
On a journey of that sort you find gold.
Rumi
Journals involve both outward (observation) and inward (reflective) journeys Since journaling is about listening to inner voices, it has the power to unblock and release potential in all spheres of our lives. The journal also cultivates the practice of regular writing which then feeds into fiction, life stories and poetry. This mini workshop will encourage all who participate to access their creativity and imagination, engage the discipline and learn writing skills.
The keeping of a journal will help you to:
•enter the conversation with yourself and with others
•ask the big questions around identity and purpose
•explore the power of writing in problem solving, in offering insights and in creative expression
The Joy and Call of Stories - Find the Story teller inside
A practical 4 week Storyshop Series to evoke Creativity and Imagination
Kirsten Pearson joins as co-facilitator
This workshop will show you how to ritualise and energise your life though engaging with stories – those of your own and of others. Climb inside stories and tell them from the inside. Listen to them, Shape them. Taste them on your tongue. Reconnect to creativity, memory and imagination. This workshop experience will energize you. You will get a clearer understanding of how we construct our lives as fiction and how this can release us into a more abundant life. You’ll emerge with stories in your heart and on your lips.
Week 1: The Why of Stories; Archetypal Stories
Week 2: Sourcing Stories through observation; Structure your own Stories
Week 3: Practical: Telling Stories
Week 4: The Circle and the Fire - A celebration of Story telling
Kirsten is a Dialogue Facilitator, poet and the volunteer Project Leader for the Movement for Sharing Life Stories. She promotes story telling as a way to support change, create new realities and transform the potential of our future.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
Robert McKee
Waking up to the New Year - A Collage and Writing Storyshop
I said to the man who stood at the gates of the year
“Give me a light that I might step safely into the unknown.”
A collage is a kind of lamp that sheds light along our path. It evokes, as traveling companions, our creativity and imagination. In this workshop we search for images to accompany us through the changes we will meet as we travel through the year.
We will construct a collage and write about it. Through this ritual of beginnings, we set intention, possibility and evoke courage. This work draws from the deep well of the unconscious.
Bring writing materials, old magazines, scissors, a glue stick and a light lunch to share.
