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ROBERT BATEMAN
England: Tales of an Anglophile TDSS010
“For as long as I can remember, I have been an Anglophile. This may be because I was born on May 24th, Queen Victoria’s birthday” – Robert Bateman
On a recent trip to England, Birgit and Robert delivered a painting to Kensington Palace and toured a number of great houses and other properties of interest including:
• Bletchley Park – the central site for Britain’s codebreakers during World War II
• Oxford and Biddulph Old Hall – the home of “The Secret Life and Loves of Robert Bateman, the lost pre-Raphaelite”
– a Novel by Nigel Daly
• The Tate Gallery – holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art
Join us as Robert shares notes and images from his trip and incorporates his opinions of “Britishness”.
Facilitator: Robert Bateman Length: 2.5 hours
Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2016 Time: 1pm-3:30pm
Cost: $20 + applicable taxes
Best to register by: Thu, Nov 10, 2016
RICHARD WAGAMESE
From the Oral Description to the Printed Page:
A Writer’s Workshop
with Richard Wagamese TDSS011
Richard’s innovative workshop process offers a powerful new approach to the teaching of writing. Students are introduced to their authentic voice or “the inner storyteller” through speci c exercises that return them to the ability to tell stories with a total lack of fear and judgment. Students will learn empowering techniques that drive their creative process. Through speci c exercises that link spontaneous oral storytelling to the printed page,
they discover the amazing “whole brain” approach to creating narrative that
First Nations storytellers have been using for generations.
Facilitator: Richard Wagamese Length: 3 days
Date: Fri, Jun 2 to Sun, Jun 4, 2017 Time: 6pm-9pm (Fri); 9am-5pm (Sat); and 10am-4pm (Sun)
Cost: $595 + applicable taxes
Best to register by: Fri, May 19, 2017
DAVID WHYTE
Half a Shade Braver:
The Foundational Elements of a Courageous, Everyday Life TDSS012
Courage is a word that tempts us to think outwardly, to run bravely against opposing re, to do something under besieging circumstance, and perhaps, above all, to be seen to do it in the view of others. Courage is celebrated in story, rewarded with medals, given the accolade, but a look at its linguistic origins is to look in a more interior direction and toward its original template: the old Norman French Coeur, or heart.
Through the revelations of poetry and the poetic tradition, David will guide
us as we look into some of the bold, sometimes courageous, always robustly vulnerable and sometimes painful steps in bringing our seemingly interior states out into the world, to be and to do,
to achieve and above all, to give.
Facilitator: David Whyte Length: 1 day
Date: Sat, May 6, 2017 Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: $125 + applicable taxes
Best to register by: Fri, Apr 21, 2017
Solace: The Art of Asking the Beautiful Question TDSS014
Each one of us grows into a steadily unfolding story where the horizon gets broader and more mysterious, the understanding of loss and mortality more keen, the sense of time more eeting and the understanding of our own mistakes and omissions more apparent. In the midst of this deepening, we have to make a life
that makes sense: there is no other life than the one that involves this constant beckoning, this invitation to the ercer aspects of existence. Join poet David Whyte for an evening exploring the discipline of nding and asking the questions that help us re-imagine ourselves, our world and our part in it. Questions that work to reshape our identities, helping us to become larger, more generous and more courageous; equal to the increasingly erce invitations extended to us as we grow and mature.
Facilitator: David Whyte
Length: 2 hours
Date: Fri, May 5, 2017
Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm
Cost: $30 + applicable taxes
Best to register by: Fri, Apr 21, 2017
MARTIN SHAW
Martin Shaw: Scatterlings – Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia
TDSS013
Dr. Martin Shaw is regarded as one of the most outstanding new teachers of the mythic imagination. Storyteller, author and wilderness rites-of-passage guide, Martin Shaw is the author of the award-winning
A Branch From The Lightning Tree (2011), Snowy Tower (2014), and his most recent book, Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (2016).
“Scatterlings is about holding up the corner of the earth that has claimed you. It’s messy, opinionated, and asks more
of you than you will likely want to give.
It’s the tale of a myth-teller making a circle round their den and bedding in. No tales of apping Tibetan prayer ags, no wandering the deserts of North Africa. Over ve years I’ve worked the crooked lanes of local story until I could go no further. Till I walked straight out of this century altogether.
It comes with a price attached...”
– Martin Shaw
Facilitator: Martin Shaw Length: 2 hours
Date: Fri, Sep 23, 2016 Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: $25 + applicable taxes
Best to register by: Fri, Sep 9, 2016
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