WORKSHOP PROGRAM
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WEDNESDAY 7 October
Visions of Light: photography workshop
Richard Piscioneri
FULL DAY 09.30 – 19.00
What makes you click? A full day workshop will unravel the latent photographer in us all. Richard Piscioneri established the successful and highly regarded Melbourne photographic studio Urban Artistry. Richard is also a lecturer in photography where he has the opportunity to not only pass on his photographic skills but to bequest to his students a compassion and deep regard for their subject matter. Following the workshop you will be invited to accompany Richard to document the events of our beloved festival. Prerequisites for this workshop – a Vision.
VENUE: SECOND HONEYMOON
Visit Richard Piscioneri’s website www.urbanartistry.com.au
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WEDNESDAY, 7 October
Writing for Theatre
Marco Calvani
FULL DAY 09.30 – 17.00
From creative exercises to stimulate your ability to feel and to observe reality, through to advice on realising your script and working with actors, Marco Calvani will take you on a whirlwind tour through the art playwriting.
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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WEDNESDAY, 7 October
Writing as a journey: How to Un-Block
Michelle Cahill
HALF DAY 14.00 – 17.00
The process of writing is a journey, sometimes one of memory, or through the body, it might be found in our ancestry, or it might be a search to uncover the true voice or narrative shape. This can be confronting to our psychological defences, which protect us emotionally from the rawness of experience. In this workshop, participants are invited to bring a piece of writing: up to 3 pages of fiction, poetry or a non-fiction essay that they might be unsure about. We’ll run through techniques for deepening the perspective and sense of location. We learn how to recognise psychological barriers that lead to writers’ block and we share ways of deepening the voice or finding the narrative. Michelle Cahill was highly commended in this year’s Blake Poetry Prize.
VENUE: KORI UBUD
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THURSDAY 8 October
Story 101: Short Story on a Stick
Sue Fleming and Rob de Kok
FULL DAY 09.30 – 17.00
Bugged by an idea, a story, a concept, a life that won’t let you go? Grab that pile of notes from the secret folder and let’s see if we can give it a kick-off together. In one practical day we’ll have you re-thinking your writing style and your working approach. Together we’ll tease out that balance of universal theme and engaging plot, work the punctuation for best effect, question the description, drag the characters and dialogue into the real world, appraise the result with renewed objectivity and massage the work into a form suitable for publication. One day, then it’s up to you – go away and nurture that baby.
VENUE: SECOND HONEYMOON
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THURSDAY 8 October
The Unimagined Path to Publication
Imran Ahmad
HALF DAY 09.30 – 12.30
Earlier this year, Imran Ahmad — author of Unimagined and recently made redundant from his long corporate career — embarked on a 13,934 mile drive around America in a hybrid car, delivering speaking events in 40 cities. He considers this to be another chapter in his unimagined journey, which began when he finally decided to follow his dream. Join him for an engaging, insightful, inspirational and often hilarious account of the path to publication in a post-9/11 world. If you think that all you need to do to get published is to write a good book, there are some valuable insights in this workshop. In the meantime: don’t give up your day job! www.unimagined.org
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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THURSDAY 8 October
Poetry Kicks: workshop for aspiring poets on writing political poetry
Hal Judge and Joani Cornish
HALF DAY 14.00 – 17.00
The language of politics is full of vague rhetoric and cliches. The language of poetry is full of tension and complexity and precision. So how do you write a poem about issues that matter without preaching the obvious? How can modern poetry challenge the status quo with its anarchic forms and alternative ways of seeing? Does the irrational act of writing a poem, defy the commercial values of the market economy? We will look at political poems from across centuries and nations and experiment with our own. This workshop is aimed at aspiring poets who want to combine compassion and solidarity in their writing. There will be plenty of opportunity for provocative writing exercises.
VENUE: KORI UBUD
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THURSDAY 8 October
Writing Lives
Jamie James
HALF DAY 14.00 – 17.00
Biography is one of the most demanding of all the genres. Join Jamie James in this half day workshop that examines step by step the process and potential pitfalls of writing someone’s life.
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
Exploring Your Personal Odyssey: A creative writing workshop that helps people tell their personal stories
Paul Sochaczewski
FULL DAY 09.30 – 17.00
Do you want to write your personal story but have been procrastinating, or don’t quite know how to start? By the end of the day you will have begun to write your personal essay. Paul’s technique includes “zen-music-speedwriting” exercises, numerous useful tips, and examples from a variety of personal essay styles. He will guide you through the steps that go into telling a compelling story. Paul has run this workshop in some 20 countries, including seven consecutive years at the University of Hawaii Summer Session.
VENUE: SECOND HONEYMOON
SOLD OUT!
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FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
Introduction to Screenwriting
Asitha Ameresekere
Wednesday 07 October
HALF DAY 09.30–12.30
Do you have an idea for film? An adaptation? A old script in a bottom drawer? Join award-winning UK filmmaker Asitha Ameresekere as he takes you on a journey from script to screen.
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
How to perform a poem
With a stellar cast of the world’s best performance poets
HALF DAY 14.00 – 17.00
Get ready for the Saturday night slam! Join Omar Musa, winner of the 2008 Australian Poetry Slam, Viki Holmes and Kate Rogers [Hong Kong] and Jeet Thayil [India] for 3 hours of fun, hilarity and action-packed tips.
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
Stories in Cloth: a guided journey
Threads of Life
HALF DAY 14.00 – 17.00
In their motifs and ceremonial uses, the traditional textiles of Indonesia represent an understanding of the natural world and community that has sustained people through the centuries. Starting at the dye plant garden and studio of the YPBB Foundation and finishing at the Threads of Life gallery in Ubud, I Made Maduarta and William Ingram will introduce the uses and stories associated with dye plants across the archipelago, and the motifs and meanings that can be discerned in traditional cloth: spice trade influences juxtaposed with indigenous motifs, echoes of Indian trade cloths, imagery related to defining aspects of the local environment, history and genealogy entwined.
Sponsored by Threads of Life threadsoflife.com
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
Nuts and Bolts: Turning your non-fiction idea into a book
Jacky Djokosetio & Linda Hoffman
FULL DAY 09.30–17.00
Join these two travel writers to work through the process of the start-to-finish technical aspects of writing & publishing a book. The procedures they’ve developed will encourage writers on any topic realise their dream of seeing their work in print. Beginning with researching and finding the gap in what’s already in the bookstores, they will then lead you through an A-Z workshop on everything from shaping your voice to fill that gap, finding the money to publish, researching book contents, writing, translating, getting it published, and promoting the book. You’ll take home samples of proposals, MOUs, checklists and procedures that can take time away from the precious opportunity to think and create.
VENUE: SECOND HONEYMOON
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
Reading as a Writer
Sue Fleming
HALF DAY 09.30 – 12.30
Why are some authors so successful? Why do you love that book so much? What is it buried within the style of that paragraph that works on your memory and imagination? Start reading as a writer instead of an avid fan and improve your writing. In this workshop, Sue will show how the close analysis of your favourite author’s writing style can be employed to inform your own work. Through chosen excerpts, and in conjunction with your own examples, Sue will take you through a series of exercises to initially emulate and then draw on successful works to brighten your own prose and gain a new appreciation for the cadence and tonality of text.
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
Surf Writing
Jaimal Yogis
HALF DAY 14.00 – 17.00
Some of the greatest writers of the past century – from Mark Twain to Jack London to Tom Wolfe – have attempted to capture the ethereal and ancient art of wave riding in prose and story. But even some of these greats have failed to get surfing quite right. Writing well about the surfing is a task that takes an intricate understanding of waves, unique vocabulary, and a deep reverence for the sea. In this three hour workshop, we’ll explore the best of surf writing – both old and modern– discuss various ways of describing waves and water, learn some truths and fictions about surf culture, talk about where surf writing is headed (especially in reference to the explosion of the sport) and how you can fit into it the market. Plus, we’ll do a little surf writing ourselves.
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
Sharing the Journey: Travel Writing with Style
Paul Sochaczewski
FULL DAY 09.30 – 17.00
You’ve meditated in a frigid cave in Ladakh and interviewed Burma’s leader about his relationship to white elephants. You’ve nibbled grilled grasshoppers in Isaan and had a life-changing conversation with a monk in Laos. You want to share your journey, but aren’t too sure how to start, what to say, how to make it interesting for other people. In this workshop Paul will review his “Ten Tips” for more powerful writing. There will be numerous writing exercises and support from others in the small group. By the end of the workshop each participant will have begun to write a travel article.
VENUE: SECOND HONEYMOON
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
Image and Sense in Poetry
Michelle Cahill
Sunday 11 October,
HALF DAY 09.30 – 12.30
In this workshop bring along two poems you’ve been working on, and get some feedback on how to develop and refine the work. Your poem needs a spark. It wants clarity, shape, sound and sense. Inspiration isn’t something a poet can produce, but the craft and techniques of poetry can be honed. In this workshop you will learn some of the essential skills of how to edit and reshape your drafts; how to create tonal space, clarify your images and metaphors. Michelle will also share her experiences of how to present work to publishers, and how to prepare your first manuscript. Michelle Cahill was highly commended in this year’s Blake Poetry Prize.
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
A gift for you: writing for children
Alison Lester
HALF DAY 14.00 – 17.00
Alison will guide participants through the most rewarding writing process of all – writing your own book, for a child you love. You will leave the workshop with your very own book, telling your own story, and ready for hours of reading fun.
VENUE: TAMAN INDRAKILA
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
The Kindest Cut of All: Editing for Writers
Shelley Kenigsberg
HALF DAY 14.00-17.00
All good writing is rewriting. In this workshop we’ll look at the techniques great writers use and find those that work for us. We’ll hunt down the ’sins’ of poor writing that affect characterization, voice, structure, flow, style and word choice, and discover whether too many adjectives really do make for boring, tiresome and tedious text. Bring a piece of your writing (up to 250 words of fiction or non-fiction) and see how you can add spice by splicing.
VENUE: KORI UBUD
