THE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
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WEEKENDS
A list of some of the electives offered at Young Writers . . .
* The Apparatus: Standing Before the Law * The Art of Dumpster Diving * Batta Batta Swing: The Art of Film Pitching * The BlueGeranium * Cajun Music * A Can of Shaving Cream, a Roll of Duct Tape, 2 Dozen Feet, and a Whole Lotta Crabs *Chicano Theatre *Coffee Talk: Body Image * Collage * COMCHIANIME" Comic Books, Chi and Animation * CONSPIRACY: from Assassinations to World Domination * Create Your Own Journal * Dark Side of Oz * Dektol, D-76, and Stop Baths, Oh My! * Digital Publishing: Writing in the World of Hypertexts * Do-It-Yourself Riverdance * The Dynamics of Voice: Do I Sound Boring to You? * Egg Candles * Filling in the Gaps * Freezing Charlottesville * Frisbee Golf * Graphology: the Sign on the Dotted Line * Hey You!...relax * Improv * The Last Czarina * Little Man, Big Dream * Love is a Dog from Hell * The Magic Orange Tree and the Universal Fairy Tale * Marketing Mania:Potpourri, Products, and Proposals * Milkcow Calf Playing in the Midnight Sun: A Blues Elective * Mini-Workshop: Fiction * Mini-Workshop: Poetry * Mission: Field Trip to the Bayly Art Museum * More Fun with Condiments * Muppets, Mayhem, Foam, and Fun * Nighthawks at the Diner * The Obsessive Gothic: A Critical Look at Modern Horrors * On Top of O-Hill * Origins of the Artist *Our Barbies, Ourselves * Oy Vey!: Issues in Modern Judaism * Performance Art * Piece of the American Pie * Pinhole Photography *The Play Room * Please Understand Me: A Personality Quest * Prep Step * Seven-Eleven Heaven * Sing Me a Story * Songs to Learn and Sing Real Loud * Songwriting for Absolute Beginners * Stitching the Bare Threads * Tour UVA at a Fast Pace * Travel Writing * Twentieth Century Photography: History and Theory * Upstaging Big Daddy * "We Got After Them":3 on 3 Basketball Tournament * Word Sound Movement Image *
AFTERNOONS
The afternoon schedule includes a follow-up session to the morning workshop where you can extend your practice of novel techniques, elaborate on new ideas, and consult with other writers as you revise.
In addition, you choose from an array of electives to enhance your morning workshop: attend seminars with visiting artists; explore other genres; combine writing with drawing, photography, dance, drama, and music; investigate autobiography, nature writing and film studies; write in the privacy of your room; swim, hike,play tennis; and much more.
Some electives unfold through a series of rigorous sessions; others provide brief encounters with the eclectic; all ignite the imagination..
EVENINGS -WEEKENDS
Charlottesville and the surrounding area provide an environment ideal for immersing the writer in rich literary, historical, and cultural traditions. Evenings and weekends are carefully planned to take advantage of these extraordinary resources. You can attend plays, visit Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello, explore the Blue Ridge Mountains, interact with guest writers,join a staff of writers to create a literary, news, audio, or video magazine, hear your own instructors present their work in readings, and share your work in the Writer's Cafe, a showcase for your talent.