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Creativity Workshop
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Personal Development
Who Should Attend?
Teachers, business people, writers, scientists, artists, anyone curious about the creative process
Full Seminar Description
The Creativity Workshop was established in 1993 and is committed to helping individuals believe in and develop their creative process through using creative writing, art, memoir, storytelling, drama, journaling and map making exercises intended to become the tools for a lifetime. People from all different disciplines, interests and levels of experience, come together to explore their imaginations. The Creativity Workshop is dedicated to teaching people about their creativity and how to use it in all aspects of life, work, and creative expression. In a non-competitive, nurturing atmosphere, the Creativity Workshop course helps participants develop creative skills, expanded sense perception, concept innovation and problem solving, increased inspiration and brainstorming, and new ways of looking at life as exciting and transformative. Our Creativity Workshops in New York City and our Summer Creativity Workshops in Europe are a perfect retreat for teachers, business people, writers, scientists, artists and anyone curious about the creative process. Keywords: creative writing, memoir, storytelling, literature, art therapy, k12, theater, music, teacher, innovation, spirituality, poetry, education, multidisciplinary studies, psychology, professional development, teaching, learning. Fee per person: $850 in the US; $2075 for Crete, $2275 for Barcelona, $1975 for Florence.The Creativity Workshop was established in 1993 and is commited to helping individuals believe in and develop their creative process through using creative writing, art, memoir, storytelling, drama, journaling and map making exercises intended to become the tools for a lifetime. People from all different disciplines, interests and levels of experience, come together to explore their imaginations.
The Creativity Workshop is dedicated to teaching people about their creativity and how to use it in all aspects of life, work, and creative expression. In a non-competitive, nurturing atmosphere, the Creativity Workshop course helps participants develop creative skills, expanded sense perception, concept innovation and problem solving, increased inspiration and brainstorming, and new ways of looking at life as exciting and transformative. Our Creativity Workshops in New York City and our Summer Creativity Workshops in Europe are a perfect retreat for teachers, business people, writers, scientists, artists and anyone curious about the creative process.
The exercises used in the Creativity Workshop are intended to become the tools for a life time of creative expression. Process and exploration are the keystones here, rather than finished products. 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, photography, collage, map making, storytelling and guided visualization. We explore ways of making creative communities wherever we are--how to ask the kinds of questions that lead to an atmosphere of collaborative brain storming and nurturing rather than competition and critique in order to foster among individuals a growing sense of confidence and inspiration in their discoveries.
Map Making
Participants make 3D maps which become a visual journey through their creative processes. What are the compass points of these maps, what are their beginnings and their destinations, their detours, short cuts, rest stops along the way. Maps will be made on twelve foot long scrolls to be laid out on the floor and populated with language, images, sounds and objects.Show and Tell
The childhood game of 'Show and Tell' using personal mementos to weave magic and tell stories. We look into the evocative nature of objects and their power to stimulate us.Visualizations
Exploring the topography of the participants' imagination by being guided through a series of archetypal tales out of which they create their own images and stories.Miniature Worlds
Manipulating fanciful creatures and metaphoric objects to create a Lilliputian reflection of the soul.The Interview
Getting under a character's skin. Participants will break into groups of two, one as interviewer, one as interviewee. The interviewer will then perform a 10 minute excerpt of the interviewee's life in the first person, as if she were actually the person whose life experience is being recounted.Automatic Writing and Drawing
Discovering the strength of the subconscious and how to interpret and develop images, stories, characters, dreams into a body of work. We work on how to use these tools not only to generate the beginnings of new work but to edit and sharpen more developed projects.Sense Perception
A series of exercises focusing on our five senses and how they can be integrated into our creative work. How we can use them to deepen our work or even change its direction.Sponsor Background:
The Creativity Workshop is based in New York City and is taught around the world. It was established in 1993 by writer Shelley Berc and multimedia artist Alejandro Fogel to provide an alternative to traditional forms of education and thinking. The organization is dedicated to teaching individuals and groups about their creative processes.Shelley Berc
Shelley Berc is a novelist and playwright. Her awards includea two year Pew/TCG National Theatre Artists Residency grant for $100,000, two Lila Wallace/Readers Digest awards, a TCG Artists Residency travel grant, McKnight Fellowship, National Jewish Culture Playwriting award, Rockefeller/Bellagio Fellowship, NEA Opera/Music librettist fellowship, and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for best off-Broadway play. Her plays and dance texts have been performed in such venues as the American Repertory Theatre, Yale Rep, CSC, Portland Stage, Walker Arts Center, Tanglewood, Festival d'Avignon and the Edinburgh Festival. Her plays include A Girls Guide to the Divine Comedy, Dual Heads, Burn Out, Shooting Shiva, and To Dance the Memory of Angels. Rameau's Nephew, based on Diderot's work, was jointly written with director Andrei Belgrader and performed in 1990 at CSC Rep which also premiered their version of Scapin starring Stanley Tucci. It was nominated for best play of the year in 1990 by the Outer Critics Circle Award. The American Repertory Theatre produced her adaptations of Lulu,The Imaginary Invalid, and Servant of Two Masters and commissioned her to write a radical new musical, Ubu Rock based on Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi.
Berc’s novel, The Shape of Wilderness, was published by Coffee House Press in 1995. The New York Times called it "a vividly imagined parable...a strange and potent book...a fantastical world of unusual sensuality and invention". She has a new novella dante/A Girl's Own Guide to the Divine Comedy which is serialized in Exquisite Corpse, a journal edited by Andrei Codrescu. Berc also has her own regular column at the Corpse, Postcards from Shelley, which is an ongoing account of her travels all over the world. Her plays and essays have been published by Performing Arts Journal, Johns Hopkins Press, TCG Press, Yale Theater Magazine, Her fiction and poetry have also been published in BOMB, LitKit, among other publications and presses. Berc was Professor of the International Writing Program and the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa from 1985-2000.
Alejandro Fogel
Alejandro Fogel is a multimedia artist working in painting, installations, video, travel-performance, and digital art. He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United States and Germany. Since he had his first experience of the Andes, Mr. Fogel became deeply involved with the history and art of Pre-Columbian cultures and subsequently the roots of individuals in culture and the legacy of heritage. Since 1995 he has been creating art works that follow the footsteps of his father's journey from a Hassidic youth in Transylvania through the years of the Holocaust in labor camps and in hiding and his subsequent emigration to Argentina where Fogel was born.
Alejandro Fogel has received many awards and honors. He was a Fellow and a 2 year artist-in-residence of the Institute of Current World Affairs. He was an artist in residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. He was selected by The Rolex Award for Enterprise in Geneva, Switzerland, which included the publication of his project The Inkas Road. His awards are numerous; they include, the Arche Biennal Award in Painting, the National Endowment for the Arts of Argentina First Prize in Painting, The Pio Collivadino Award at the Argentine National Gallery of Art, and the Richard Wagner International Association Award in Painting. Alejandro Fogel worked with the Argentine Commission of Visual Arts helping to develop a native folk artists archive. He also established and taught a series of visual arts workshops for indigenous cultures living in remote areas of the Andes and Patagonia.
Alejandro Fogel's works are in museums and public and private collections in Argentina, United States, France, Brazil, Uruguay, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and Canada.
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