Writing from The Heart

"Writing from The Heart" is a workshop on creative writing, creative drawing, and creative drama. There are three available versions of this workshop: one for beginners on the secondary, tertiary, and graduate levels, and another for practitioners. A third version of this workshop is designed as an outreach program to disadvantaged and underserved audiences such as the disabled, the poor and the marginalized, victims of human trafficking, battered women and abused children, drug rehabilitation center residents, child combatants, children in conflict with the law, prisoners, and gang leaders. This third version incorporates creativity and problem awareness, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, and peacemaking.

Friday, July 24, 2015

There are art academies and creative writing centers, but all these teach theory, history, materials, and techniques. Graduating from these institutions means nothing if the graduate's art does not come from his heart, for only when it comes from his heart is it authentic and original.

An artist draws his personal truth only from his heart, and his social truth from his firsthand experiences. He otherwise becomes a collective carbon copy of all the teachers he ever had.