Telling Room Workshops

Friends, Mainers, Good Folks, lend us your ears: You never need an excuse to stop by, but if you're looking for a reason to send your students or children or your friends' students or children to The Telling Room, here are two great upcoming workshops and one ongoing opportunity. Here are the workshops, the first taught by Portland's first-ever Poet Laureate and the second by a local artist and comic book writer. Seeing with the Heart's Ear Grades 4 – 6 Mondays, November 3rd, 10th, 17th and December 1st and 8th 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Lead Teacher: Martin Steingesser "We will be looking for how wind soughing among spruce and hemlock, the lap of waves, the migrating geese, conversation over dinner, in hallways, and weather ruffle the heart’s fur, reflect and carry our stories. This is, hopefully, a vision-shifting workshop to help with writing more expressive, stronger and clearer poetry. Finding and making images that resonate with our reflective and feeling life is one of its loving concerns." This from the workshop's teacher, a wonderful Maine writer who teaches poetry to children through the Maine Arts Commission and likes to dance on stilts. Comics: Start with a Dot Grades 5 –8 Wednesdays, November 5th, 12th, 19th and December 3rd 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Lead Teacher: Henry Wolyniec Sometimes, a comic says it best. Find out why, and how to lose yourself in the alternative universe of the page. What is a picture, really? How do you know what words to use? Find out how to combine images and words to tell the kind of story that can only happen in the comics. More workshops, including comics for younger writers and visual journaling, to come later this year. Head to www.tellingroom.org to find out more and to register. As always, our workshop and tutoring programs are free. Also, don't forget that every Tuesday and Thursday we offer after-school tutoring anytime from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. College essays, school projects, or new screenplays, we've got it covered. Send any students you know who are 8 to 18 and can use homework help or writing mentoring our way. All best, The Telling Room Crew