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Find Your Golden Thread: A Writing Workshop with Madeleine Eno

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA, United States

Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series Find Your Golden Thread: A Writing Workshop with Madeleine Eno There’s a lot of talk these days about writing your story. And some think that means starting with your great-great grandmother and ending with what you had for breakfast this morning. So, writing becomes something daunting, dusty and overwhelming—and ripe for comparison with other more funny, interesting, adventurous people. What would happen, though, if you started to think of your “stories,” instead of your “story”? When you know your Golden Thread, you can scan back through your life and pull from your own storytelling archives, so you have a bottomless well of material. In this workshop, you’ll learn to polish your storytelling lens—what I call your “golden thread”—that unique and quirky…

$30

Channeling the Creative Self Through Tarot and Magic

Sou'wester Lodge 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA, United States

Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series Channeling the Creative Self Through Tarot and Magic with instructor Coleman Stevenson This workshop will introduce a range of spontaneous and magical methods for accessing creative impulses. We will find “the muse” in unexpected places and practice allowing it to come through without restriction. Prompts will use methods such as divination, magical writing, spontaneous mark-making, and severe constraints. We will also examine the work of artists and writers who have employed such methods in their own creations. This class is designed for artists and writers who want to broaden or recharge their practices, or for anyone seeking a greater connection with their creative self. Materials for all exercises will be provided as part of the registration fee. Coleman Stevenson is an…

$40