ANAM CARA WRITER’S AND ARTIST’S RETREAT
Workshops Scheduled for 2009
For more information about any of these workshops, please contact Sue at anamcararetreat@gmail.com
Anam Cara (www.anamcararetreat.com) is a residential retreat, providing the time, space, and creature comforts to support your focusing on your own project and doing your best creative work. In addition to individual retreats, we are once again offering workshops.
All workshop participants will be housed either at Anam Cara or at lovely B&Bs within a short walking distance. (Transportation will be provided if the weather isn't co-operating.) Breakfast is served where you are staying, and the workshops, the mid-day and evening meals, and evening entertainments take place at Anam Cara.
For more information about the workshops, availability, registration, rates, and deposit policy, please get in touch with the contact person indicated in the Calendar below.
I look forward to the possibility of your retreating to Anam Cara on your own or as part of one of this year’s workshops and send my best wishes, Sue
CALENDAR
The Poem and the Dream
Leaders: Paula Meehan, an award-winning Irish poet and playwright and a member of Aosdána (established to honour those artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland), and Juliet Clancy, a dreamworker whose mentor is internationally-known dreamworker Jeremy Taylor
One-week residential retreat from Saturday, 27 June through Friday, 3 July 2009
Following on from the success of this workshop at Anam Cara last summer, The Poem and the Dream is a midsummer poetry workshop using dreamwork as a tool for poets to make connections to their poetry and as a guide to reading and understanding the poems of self and others. The focus will be poetry, making it and making it better. This workshop is suitable for those starting out and those already writing poetry.
Writing from Within: Haiku and the Spiritual Dimension
Leaders: Maeve O'Sullivan, a leading Irish haiku poet, a founding member of Haiku Ireland, and an experienced haiku workshop leader, and Kim Richardson, a published haiku poet and experienced leader of meditation retreats
Long-weekend residential workshop from Thursday, 23 July (evening) through Sunday, 26 July 2009
Also following on from the success of their Writing from Within workshops held at Anam Cara in July 2007 and 2008, this workshop is again designed to help you develop paths to your inner inspiration -- the path within. Toward this goal, the group will work with the ancient medium of haiku poetry and its related forms, with their links to Zen and its emphasis on mindfulness. Combining the haiku work with meditation, breath and light practices, the outstanding natural beauty of the Béara Peninsula and the peace and quiet of Anam Cara, the aim is to heighten levels of awareness and to open creative channels.
Writing the Short Story
Leader: Leo Cullen, an Irish short story writer, novelist, and regular contributor to "Sunday Miscellany" (national radio programme)
Three-day residential or non-residential retreat from Wednesday, 29 July 2009 through Friday, 31 July 2009
Working through the senses, the workshop will explore the building blocks of the short story -- character development, location, and plot.
Writing in Ireland: A Workshop
Leaders: Karen Blomain, an American novelist, playwright, and poet, and Michael Downend, an American playwright and scriptwriting coach
One-week residential retreat from Saturday, 26 September through Friday, 2 October 2009
Returning to Anam Cara in 2009 after a great success in 2008, this relaxed-format workshop is designed for writers at all levels of accomplishment -- from the novice wishing to try her hand at writing, to the seasoned writer who needs a jump start for his muse for a new project, to those wishing to challenge themselves in a different art form. Appropriate for all genres. Non-writing spouses/partners welcome;
they'll find the peaceful, Irish vistas the perfect getaway and may even find themselves drawn into their own creative outlets
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