Creative Writing Retreat 
with Amy McLean
Ages 3rd-5th grade | October 7-11, 2024 M-F 9am -12pm | $125
In this weeklong writing retreat, kids will create their own author bios, dissect language through music and lyrics, take nature walks and journal, learn the elements of a good story, work on their own stories and ultimately share their polished work with the group. We’ll wrap up the week with a literary themed escape room where students use the knowledge they’ve learned all week to solve a mystery before the clock runs out.
Make Art. Create Community. Each Studio Be series offers an opportunity to make connections and explore creative arts in a small, supportive environment. Studio Be sessions are facilitated by professional teaching artists. Due to the small group format, an interest form is required and can be completed by the participant, a parent/guardian, or teacher. Participation is free.
Just “Poeting” Around: Poetry 
Power and Play Sessions with Liza Wolff-Francis
Ages 13-17 | Wednesdays, October 16-November 20 | 5:30-7:00pm
In this free course, youth 13-17 will write poetry with the influences of other modern-day poets. Through writing exercises, we will learn to trust our inner voice and pen, put words down on paper, shape those words into poems, and then practice speaking them aloud! This is a course of playing with words, trusting ourselves, and having fun writing poetry and being poets. You may have written poetry before or be brand new to writing and to poetry, you just have to be up for enjoying the writing process!
>>> Just “Poeting” Around Interest Form
Storytelling 
Through the Body with George Barrett and Killian Manning
Ages 18+ | Wednesdays, November 6-December 18 (no group on Nov. 27) | 6:30-7:30pm
Do you have a story to tell? Do you have a favorite poem or song lyrics that really speak to you? Do you love to move/dance? In this 6-week course we will explore how bodies, voices, and words converge to create embodied storytelling. Working and playing with a range of elements (vocal, physical, spatial, temporal) we will experience how the interaction between these elements lends poignancy and depth to the stories we tell. Stories will have movement and our movement will tell stories. No dance experience required!
>> Storytelling Through the Body Interest Form
Walls that Talk! Learn Mural-making with 
Sampada Kodagali Agarwal (SESSION 2)
Ages 13-17+ (teen) | DATES COMING SOON
Teens will learn creative storytelling through a Tribal Art Mural. Starting with a brief history of a tribal art style called Warli that is closely linked to nature, and then an introduction of basic Warli motifs, including human figures. A discussion on the connection of Warli art and storytelling will culminate in the design and creation of a collaborative class mural (to be displayed at the Eno Arts Mill!).
>> Walls that Talk! Mural-making Interest Form
Imaginative Writing Class for 
Teens with John Bemis
Ages 13-16 | Thursdays, January 9-February 13, 2025 | 4:30-5:30pm
Spark your teen’s imagination! Local author John Claude Bemis will be offer a twice-monthly afterschool writing class for young writers age 13-16. We’ll engage in fun activities to turn ideas of the imagination into stories on the page. A unique opportunity for your teen to get creative and foster storytelling skills in a supporting, welcoming environment.
>>> Writing Class for Teens Interest Form
This program is made possible by a grant from the Triangle Community Foundation
