This summer's Creativity Workshops will focus on: creative writing, drawing, storytelling and personal memoir. This summer the Workshops will be conducted in Florence, Paris, Barcelona and Greece. It's a great way to explore your creativity and a new culture at the same time. They will also be holding spring workshops in New York City.
BARCELONA: This is the International Year of Gaudi. Explore some of Gaudi's extraordinary architectural creations in Barcelona as part of this workshop.
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/barcelona.html
PARIS: Hotel de Turennehas been added to this accommodations package. Please follow this link for more information: http://www.creativityworkshop.com/paris.html
The Creativity Workshop's goal is to help individuals believe in and develop their creative process and break through the fears and blocks that inhibit creativity through using memoir, creative writing, visual arts exercises, and storytelling. The end product is expanded perception, innovative problem solving, and ways of looking at one's life and work as exciting and transformative.
People from all different disciplines, interests, and levels of experience come together to explore their creative process. Whether you are a writer, a business person, a teacher, or an artist, they can help you discover and nurture your particular way of expression and break through the fears and blocks that inhibit creativity.
If you are interested in reading more about the workshop, they will send you some very interesting magazine articles and interviews with the directors, Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel which will give you a deeper idea about the workshop's techniques, origins, and results.
Please see below the updated Calendar for New York City and European workshops and general information on all the workshops.
SUMMER IN EUROPE 2002
All workshops are taught in English.
JUNE
Florence, Italy June 25 - July 6, 2002
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/florence.html
10 day workshop
Tuition Fee: $1,000 (Accommodation packages available)
JULY
Samos, Greece July 7 - 17, 2002
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/samos.html
9 day workshop
Tuition Fee: from $1,500 (includes tuition and accommodations)
AUGUST
Barcelona, Spain July 31 - August 10, 2002
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/barcelona.html
9 day workshop
Tuition Fee: $950 (Accommodation packages available)
AUGUST
Paris, France August 11 - 21, 2002
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/paris.html
9 day workshop
Tuition Fee: $950 (Accommodation packages available)
SPRING IN NEW YORK CITY 2002
MAY
New York City May 18 - 19, 2002
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/newyork.html
2 day weekend workshop:
Saturday from 11 AM to 4:30 PM
Sunday from 11 AM to 4:30 PM
Tuition Fee: $300
New York City May 27 - 31, 2002
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/newyork.html
5 day workshop
Monday through Friday 4 to 7 PM
Tuition Fee: $600
JUNE
New York City June 8 - 9, 2002
http://www.creativityworkshop.com/newyork.html
2 day weekend workshop:
Saturday from 11 AM to 4:30 PM
Sunday from 11 AM to 4:30 PM
Tuition Fee: $300
Tools for a Lifetime
The exercises used in the Creativity Workshop are intended to become the tools for a lifetime. Participants are encouraged to draw from all kinds of resources of creativity -such as the oral tradition, dreams, childhood memories, sense perceptions and intuition. Working both individually and in collaborative groups, participants explore their imaginative potential through exercises in writing, drawing, collage, map making, story telling, brainstorming and guided visualization.
The Teachers
Shelley Berc is a writer and teacher. She was a professor of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa from 1985-2000. Her novels, plays, and essays which include 'The Shape of Wilderness', 'A Girl's Guide to the Divine Comedy' and 'Theatre of the Mind' have been published by Coffee House Press, Johns Hopkins Press, Heinemann Books, Performing Arts Journal and Theatre Communications Group Press. Her plays have been produced by theatres such as the American Repertory Theatre, the Yale Rep, and the Edinburgh Festival.
Alejandro Fogel is a visual artist and teacher working in painting, site installations, video and digital art. He has exhibited his works in galleries and museums in Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United States and Germany. His ongoing project 'Root to Route' chronicles his father's journey through the Holocaust years. His work is in private collections and museums around the world.
Berc and Fogel explain in theory and demonstrate in practice the concepts of originality, 'appropriation', memory and imagination. Under their guidance, participants explore their own creative processes through different writing and drawing exercises. They emphasize the intimate link between personal and public spheres, individual and social practices, history and myth, dream and reality. The focus of the workshop is on process not product and to help participants find life-long tools of creative expression. Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel have taught their Creativity Workshop internationally. They have lectured on creativity and their own work at universities and cultural centers throughout the world.
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