The Bennett Centre: Young Writers' Camps 2019
In partnership with YouthWrite, a camp for kids who love to write...just about anything!
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Grades 4,5 & 6
February 28 - March 1
March 25 - 26
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Grades 7,8 & 9
March 27 - 28 |
| All camps run from 9:30am - 3:30pm |
Two-day camps are $89.95 |
with guest instructors
Spyder Yardley-Jones, Catherine Dubois, Angela Flatekval, Tololwa M Mollel, Brandon Wint, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne and Joan Marie Galat
The Bennett Centre
9703-94 Street
Edmonton
To register, call 780-428-1111
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Catherine Dubois - When she realized her dream of becoming
a frog would not be achieved, Catherine turned her attention to the graphic
arts and has not looked back. She graduated from Pixel Blue College in 2015
with a diploma in 2D Animation and Illustration. After being awarded a
scholarship at the Gotta Minute Film Festival, she returned to school to
complete a diploma in Digital Illustration and Sequential Arts at the Edmonton
Digital Arts College in 2017. Catherine was the Artist-in-Residence at Happy
Harbor Comics from May 2017 to January 2018. She now works as a freelance
animator and illustrator.
Making Your Own Comics - Learn how to start making your own comics. Cover a few general drawings tips to make your characters be more alive, including how to layout and thumbnail your comics, the basics of storytelling. Then apply what you've learned to create your own zine or small comic book.
Tololwa M Mollel writes books and stories for the young and
the not so young. He’s author of over twenty titles in English and Swahili, the
national language of Tanzania where he was born. Presently Tololwa is writing
his life story, a book for adults that will be titled Why We Have Two Ears and
Only One Mouth: A Tanzanian Memoir. When he isn’t writing (or reading or
listening to them), Tololwa is telling stories. Or performing them in theatre.
By himself, or with other performers and artists.
Gift of Story - Celebrate the challenge and fun of story making through writing, drama, narrative, performance and play. Make use of your pen and words, and -- as much as you're comfortable -- your body, hands, voices, and your face, to bring to life a story you will create on your own, or with others.
Brandon Wint is a poet, spoken word artist and teacher who
is devoted to revealing beauty and kindness in his poetry. His
writing, performance, and teaching all affirm, in their different ways, that
there is beauty to be found in the struggle, and solace to be found in
sincerity-of-spirit. He
is a two-time national champion slam poet, a nationally published writer, as
well as arts-educator and curator of artistic events.
Poetry Writing Through The Senses – Explore fun, collective poetry exercises to help transform everything you can see, feel, hear, taste or touch into poetry. Through a combination of reading, writing and poetry-related games, discover how and where poetry can be found in every moment of our lives.
Laurel
Deedrick-Mayne loves to write… just about anything! Her book, A Wake For
The Dreamland, has been on Edmonton’s Best Seller List more than 65
times and won the 2016 Alberta Readers Choice Award. Something Laurel hears
often is how much people “love the l letters!” in her book. She’s looking
forward to breaking out the stationary, licking the stamps and instilling the
joy of writing and receiving letters to YouthWriters.
Writers of the Lost Art - Forget texting, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook messaging. Explore the old-timey lost art of handwriting letters to loved ones, or the famous or the dead. There’s nothing like sending and receiving something in the mail or discovering long-lost letters in an old attic trunk or in a bottle or behind the walls of an ancient house. Bring your favourite pen and as many postal (mailing) addresses as you want, but at least four. Find out how letters in your fiction can be wonderful for shaping character, developing plot and adding tension or mystery.
Inside
and Out -
Powerful characters are created by authors and performers. Using open scenes as
a launch pad, we’ll create a process for you to deepen the characters you write
and play by discovering the answers to questions such as: Who are you? Where
are you going?? What are you doing??? And most importantly… What Were You
Thinking????
Joan Marie Galat is
the author of more than 20 books that contain facts, true stories, and
not-so-true stories, including the Dot to Dot in the Sky series.
She loves to explore nonfiction topics from the stars in space to nature on our
own planet. Joan's book Dark Matters includes true stories set
in Alberta, while her book on wild and wacky engineering shows how to stop a
candy thief and solve other problems. Joan also enjoys reaching for new heights
as a nearly nine-foot tall stiltwalker.
Tell a True Story - You’re more interesting than you might think! Find out how to tell a true story, with you as a key character. You’ll discover fun and easy ways to come up with ideas, build a story, and organize facts. The session begins with a creativity game that gets you set for writing.
Tololwa M Mollel writes books and stories for the young and
the not so young. He’s author of over twenty titles in English and Swahili, the
national language of Tanzania where he was born. Presently Tololwa is writing
his life story, a book for adults that will be titled Why We Have Two Ears and
Only One Mouth: A Tanzanian Memoir. When he isn’t writing (or reading or
listening to them), Tololwa is telling stories. Or performing them in theatre.
By himself, or with other performers and artists.
Gift of Story - Celebrate the challenge and fun of story making through writing, drama, narrative, performance and play. Make use of your pen and words, and -- as much as you're comfortable -- your body, hands, voices, and your face, to bring to life a story you will create on your own, or with others.
Spyder Yar
dley-Jones, created in Area 51, was
developed to create visual art in many disciplines. An award-winning and published
illustrator, Spyder’s art has been exhibited
internationally. He is a preparatory at the Art Gallery of Alberta and has also taught at YouthWrite for 24 years.
A Drifter's guide to new Worlds - Create a 5-page illustrated guide to a fictitious country or world. Write and draw why someone should visit your world. Discover the creatures and critters who live there…