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Sunday, August 2 from 9am-12pm
A half-day creative writing retreat, structured in three parts: arrival, a quiet walk, and a return to write again.
The morning opens with coffee and the building of a still life vignette from small, ordinary objects. Before the first writing session begins, a short reading and conversation bring the practice alongside its long lineage: the Dutch and Flemish still life tradition, the quiet attention of painters like Chardin, Clara Peeters, and Morandi, and the texts of writers like Gilbert White, Virginia Woolf, Mary Oliver, and Wendell Berry, each of whom found a whole world inside a single ordinary moment. This is a workshop rooted in that tradition, translated from paint and page into a morning spent looking closely at what's already here.
From there, a walk outdoors carries a single prompt to hold onto and consider. The morning closes with a second writing session and a read-aloud circle, where each person's still life, and the words it drew out, are witnessed by the group.
A kraft journal and coffee and tea are included throughout. No writing experience necessary, only a willingness to look closely at what's already in front of you.
Sunday, August 2 from 9am-12pm
A half-day creative writing retreat, structured in three parts: arrival, a quiet walk, and a return to write again.
The morning opens with coffee and the building of a still life vignette from small, ordinary objects. Before the first writing session begins, a short reading and conversation bring the practice alongside its long lineage: the Dutch and Flemish still life tradition, the quiet attention of painters like Chardin, Clara Peeters, and Morandi, and the texts of writers like Gilbert White, Virginia Woolf, Mary Oliver, and Wendell Berry, each of whom found a whole world inside a single ordinary moment. This is a workshop rooted in that tradition, translated from paint and page into a morning spent looking closely at what's already here.
From there, a walk outdoors carries a single prompt to hold onto and consider. The morning closes with a second writing session and a read-aloud circle, where each person's still life, and the words it drew out, are witnessed by the group.
A kraft journal and coffee and tea are included throughout. No writing experience necessary, only a willingness to look closely at what's already in front of you.