Event
Christine Evans: CHANCE, FOUND OBJECTS AND UMBRELLAS
Where do ideas come from? How do you find the seeds of an inspiring idea? In this workshop, you dont have to have an idea to start writing. By noticing and creating from whats all around us, writers can learn ways to enter the dreaming-field of a new play through the thousand tiny moments, objects and gestures that make up the everyday.
This is an intensive writing workshop that challenges students to find their new play through a process drawn from close attention to found objects, chance, and the poetry of everyday things. Participants will work (in guided exercises) from humble, everyday materials close to hand.
Well start on the outside, working with pictures, found dialogue, gestures, objects, chance encounters. Based on the principle that our attention acts as a magnet to organize material into meaningful patterns, well work from external to more internal found objects:memories, dreams, emotions, scenarios. We will use techniques drawn from early 20th century art practices and concepts, including Tadeusz Kantors poor object and reality of the lowest rank.
By the end of the workshop, students will have the outline of a new work-in-progress and have learned some inventive new ways to continue developing it.
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LocationPlaywrights Foundation
131 - 10th Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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