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The Moment of Creation: Poetry/Performance Workshop
Poetry Teachers NYC @ 244 West 54th St, Brooklyn, NY
Performance artist & poet Caitlin Gil will lead this unique poetry/performance workshop, designed to help students explore their creative potential. “The Moment of Creation” consists of 3 Sunday sessions plus a culminating performance at the end of the series. What happens when we sit still? What happens when we move from sitting still? When does it happen? The decision from stillness to movement? The act from mind to the moment of creation? ...
All levels
18 and older
The Art of Storytelling Through Comicbooks
York College CPE @ 94 - 20 Guy R Brewer Blvd, New York, NY
This course will guide students through the nuts and bolts of creating a comic book. Students will learn world building, character design, script writing, thumb-nailing, penciling and inking. Finally they will learn how to digitally letter comics. At the end of the course, the finished comics and all supplementary material will be collected and printed in a single “Art of Making a Comic” volume. The volume will feature each student’s...
Writing Your Comedy Pilot
Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ 137 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Craft your comedic masterpiece with expert guidance from seasoned comedy writers at a renowned comedy school in Brooklyn – where laughter meets creativity, and your pilot script dreams come to life.
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Map Your Story: Research, Reporting and Interviewing
Made in NY Media Center by IFP @ 30 John St, Brooklyn, NY
Making a great film, podcast, or report starts with having a solid story. How do you turn a topic that sparked your interest into a story that others want to absorb? Learn tried and true techniques used by journalists, like interviewing, research, and story reporting and apply these skills to your creative project. The instructor for this day-long workshop is Iris Mansour, who has written and produced viral stories for Bustle, The Guardian, and Mashable,...
$150
Memoir-Writing with Betsy Bonner
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. Memoir is not autobiography, which is intended to cover the whole life to date, but a short and significant stretch of a life—like a novel. It’s also different...
Non-Fiction Book Proposal Workshop
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Non-fiction books (anything from memoir, pop culture, true crime and self-help) are sold to publishers on the basis of a proposal which is a 20-50 page document pitching the book’s content and marketability and is supplemented by sample chapters. You write the proposal before you actually write the book. Taught by the owner and published author, Kambri Crews, the workshop will cover these parts of a proposal: overview (the basic idea), market...
$30
Business Blogging 101
Creative Business Rules @ 2255 Broadway Rd, New York, NY
Being found online is critical in today’s market place, especially for small business. Blogging is an important digital marketing strategy that will help improve your overall online presence. In this 2-hour workshop, you will learn practical steps to build a blog for your business and how to strategically leverage it into a key branding channel to improve your online presence. This workshop is targeted for small business owners and creative...
All levels
18 and older
$40
Poetry-writing with Omotara James
The space of the poem offers you the opportunity to free yourself. The work of the poem is to tell the truth: at all costs, in every place, no matter what. It has been said that the poet is the undoing of the family, because the poem reveals its secrets. The craft of undoing is necessary to the work of constructing meaning, no matter your subject matter. Poetry is not only where we go to confront the past, but to free ourselves of it. In...
Grant Writing for Creatives: A Two-Part Workshop
Made in NY Media Center by IFP @ 30 John St, Brooklyn, NY
This workshop will prepare you to put your best foot forward the next time you apply for a grant. The goal of this course is to help you gain confidence in your fundraising and proposal writing abilities and provide you with a solid road map to begin the process. CURRICULUM PLAN The course is taught by Tracie Holder, a filmmaker and consultant, who has raised over $2.4 million for her own projects. In the first part of the class, Tracie...
Business Writing Skills
LaGuardia Community College @ 3110 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, NY
Through real world scenarios and writing exercises, practice using clear, concise and grammatically correct language in emails, memos and letters. You will also learn to use appropriate tone, style and structure found in common business communications. Prerequisite: Microsoft Word for Windows or Basic computer skills and online grammar screening (Please reach out to [email protected] for the online screening). ...
How to Get Your Comic Books Published for Adults
Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY
Discover the secrets to becoming a freelance storyteller and getting your comic books published in this intensive course at Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo. Dive into visual storytelling techniques, create a professional pitch packet, and gain insight into the realities of working as part of a team. Unleash your creativity and bring your comic book dreams to life!
$80
Creative Writing for Documentary Filmmakers
Made in NY Media Center by IFP @ 30 John St, Brooklyn, NY
This two-part, six hour workshop is for all levels of documentary filmmakers, ideally with a film in development or production. Participants will use and improve their creative writing skills to develop their subjects into characters and to describe the action of a film in dynamic, readable ways that make audiences want to engage more with the project. Filmmakers will write, and through peer collaboration, come away with writing that can be applied...
Writing for a TV Series: Inside the Writers' Room
Made in NY Media Center by IFP @ 30 John St, Brooklyn, NY
The television and streaming programs available to viewers today are more vibrant and varied than ever before. This one-day, six-hour intensive taught by a working TV writer will introduce you to the fundamentals of writing a TV series. You’ll learn how a writers’ room works as a team to create stories, and you’ll come away with tips for writing your own spec pilot. Instructor Laura Marks (The Good Fight, The Expanse, The Exorcist) will lead...
$150
Interview Techniques: Uncover the Unexpected
Made in NY Media Center by IFP @ 30 John St, Brooklyn, NY
Conducting successful interviews is an essential part of almost any non-fiction storytellers’ work: the stories you tell are only as good as the information you uncover. In this full-day course, you will learn and practice how to develop, structure, and formulate questions to get richer, more engaging responses from your interview subjects. This course is designed for those working in podcasting, documentary film, or...
$150
Developing Your Doc: Find the Money & Prep Production
Made in NY Media Center by IFP @ 30 John St, Brooklyn, NY
Developing Your Doc: Finding the Money & Prepping for Production There is an abundance of stories, issues and people to make a documentary about; to actually complete and finance a feature film is less common. Fundamental to succeeding is starting with a doable, marketable, and captivating treatment, and a proposal that accurately represents your project. The aim of this course is to prepare you for the road ahead, by giving...
Effective Grant Writing
York College CPE @ 94-43 160th St, Jamaica, NY
Learn how to write persuasive grant proposals, cover letters and needs assessments. Students will explore public and private funding resources, review the application process, and identify types of awards. The basic components of a proposal will be discussed and tips on writing and the preparation of a proposal shared in class.
Genre Writing for Playwrights
The Brick @ 579 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
The goal is that students outline and write a new full length genre play over the course of 8 weeks. A class and writing group for writing genre plays. (Sci-fi, Mystery, Western, Clown, etc.) After the eight weeks, the Brick will host a reading of each play. Special guests/expert visitors likely. (Crystal Skillman, genre playwriting genius and Morgan Gould, Literary Manager at Playscripts confirmed.) Location Notes: The classes are all held at...
All levels
18 and older
Business Writing Workshop
York College CPE @ 94-43 160th St, Jamaica, NY
Great English written communication skills are essential to move ahead and get and keep higher level jobs in today's competitive workplace. The best way to learn to write is to do it. Through writing and critiquing your writing, this course will cover advanced sentence structure and use of verb and other parts of speech. We will be using the grammar in practical work related conversation practices and written exercises. You will also begin to write...
Intro to Poetry Writing
Classeteria @ 284 Suydam St, Brooklyn, NY
What makes a poem a poem? How do poems engage us, surprise us, make us laugh, or give us goosebumps? Emily Dickinson said, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” How do poets make us feel this way? In this workshop you will read modern poets (Dickinson, Frost, Gluck, Neruda, Roethke,Stevens, Tate, Whitman) and develop an awareness of the techniques they use (structure, music, line breaks, stanzas,...
Creative Writing
Brooklyn Public Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
Creative Writing Workshop with Aimee Herman, poet and writing instructor. Participants will read and evaluate poems and stories, answer prompts and create and critique their own work. Note: This program is free and open to all adults, with general seating. Pre-registration does not guarantee a seat.
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