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.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

It is fear of poverty, not death, discrimination, or loss of love, that every writer and painter fears most. The archetype of the starving artist has long been ingrained in our sensibilities. That is why many contemporary writers and painters go out of their way to take on profitable, full time jobs to pay their bills, buy their food, build their houses, and prepare themselves for retirement.