Promoting and strengthening the artistic and cultural development of Orange County, North Carolina
In the times of Covid, we’re all looking for connections. How about a starting a shared journal? Missing a grandchild? Send questions back and forth. Wanting to start a new alternate way of communicating with the young adult in your life? Might it be time to capture feelings with an aging parent before stories and memories start to fade? Exploring a new relationship? Share your thoughts with writing.
This virtual class is open to adults and children all ages, from 10 to 80. The class will initiate a new and exciting way to keep in touch through a shared journal that offers a way to gain insights about yourselves as you create a treasured heirloom.
Materials list:
The ArtSchool is making an effort to reduce the materials required for online classes where possible. For this class, students should have writing tools including pen and paper, or journal.
About the instructor:
Susie Wilde has reviewed children’s books for thirty years. Currently, she writes a monthly column for Raleigh’s News and Observer and the Charlotte Observer and a bi-monthly column for the Chapel Hill Herald. She posts all her reviews on ignitingwriting/facebook. Her published works include a picture book, Extraordinary Chester, and a book for teachers, Write-A-Thon! How to Conduct a Writing Marathon and most recently she’s co-written a book about writing children’s books, Passage & Its Making. Wilde is a teaching artist who has spent the last fifteen years encouraging children and adults to think and write like writers. To learn more about Wilde, visit her website: ignitingwriting.com
This class is conducted online! A computer with audio, video, and internet functionality is required. Student gives permission for The ArtsCenter and for instructor to use their image and comments in class recordings for promotional non-commercial purposes. Refunds and exchanges are not offered for online classes.
All ArtSchool registrations have a $3 processing fee added upon check-out.
ArtsCenter members receive 15% off of the cost of this course!
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