Writing Workshops
Have you always wanted to write, but never have? Have you written in the past, but now can't seem to find the time? The Creative Souls Writing Workshops are designed to get you writing -- whether you have written before or are just starting out.
Each Workshop is designed to get you focused on a different aspect of the writing process and each session is designed to stand on it's own. It is a safe environment for you to explore your writing. Any feedback given on what is written is to encourage and inspire you to explore the create process further.
"Creative Journaling"
Thursday, July 22, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Come reconnect with your inner voice in this creative writing session.For this first session, we will be using a photograph to elicit a story and other creative concepts.
Artist Heather Morrow will guide you in this process.[$15.00]
Kat Scrap Studio
2455 Lake Ave
Altadena, CA 91001-2441
(626) 797-1163
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KatScrap Studio Reading Club
Thursday, July 29, 2010
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Free to Attend
Reading is an important part of the creative process; through the written words the author takes you on a journey completely manifested in your own imagination. With our busy lives demanding attention, this wonderful opportunity to connect with our inner creative soul is lost.
Our first selected book:
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
by Aimee Bender
“Eating the cake her mother has prepared for her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein discovers she has a gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the food she prepares. Soon, every bite Rose takes is filled with feelings—not just her mother’s but those of other people as well—and what might have been a gift becomes a burden and then, perhaps, a curse. Because this is a novel rooted in family, Rose will learn that she is not the only Edelstein with a peculiar gift or burden. How she and others learn to cope—or not, as the case may be—is the small, sad story Rose shares. Bender’s earlier work has often been described as surrealistic; however, this novel seems more informed by a kind of magical realism that struggles with transformation and sometimes—fleetingly—succeeds, as in the case of the novel’s vividly realized Los Angeles setting. But the effect soon fades, and the reader is left only with a lingering feeling of emptiness and the realization that sadness tastes a lot like bitterness. --Michael Cart
View at Amazon: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
Kat Scrap Studio
2455 Lake Ave
Altadena, CA 91001-2441
(626) 797-1163