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Please note, this is not a live event, but a flexible course, taught fully online and run without any live-time meetings.
As resources will be emailed weekly, you do not have to be online at any specific time to take the course, you can partake in your own time.
Course length: 1 to 4 months, commencing when you want.
Application deadline: You can subscribe at any time.
As resources will be emailed weekly, you do not have to be online at any specific time to take the course, you can partake in your own time.
Course length: 1 to 4 months, commencing when you want.
Application deadline: You can subscribe at any time.
about
Far from academic norms and conventions, this non-canonical creative writing course will support you to constantly question "Dos" and "Don'ts", challenge literary canons and accepted rules related to syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and ponctuation. This course will extend your conception of what is "text" to allow you to go far beyond mainstream literary genres, standardized writing techniques, attitudes, and practices. It will give you new ideas, insights, and perspectives, encourage you to take risks, explore new ways of narrating, composing, and creating, develop your own artistic voice and personal aesthetic. Our exercises will guide you to take the path of the non-conform, explore with confidence the unknown, the unusual, the unfamiliar, and the unexpected in literacy creation.
This course is above all a judgment-free and joyful space, where you can experiment and play freely with words. Where you can be yourself, explore yourself, listen to yourself. Through different exercises and immersive experiences, you will discover new tools, aesthetics, processes, and methods. You will step by step unblock your barriers and get unstuck in your creative writing process. You will, if you are ready for, move out of your comfort zone, feel a little bit more free and liberated.
Your commitment is very flexible: you will receive every week a thematic package, and you can realize the exercises when you feel it is the right moment for you.
This weekly creative package will contain:
This course is above all a judgment-free and joyful space, where you can experiment and play freely with words. Where you can be yourself, explore yourself, listen to yourself. Through different exercises and immersive experiences, you will discover new tools, aesthetics, processes, and methods. You will step by step unblock your barriers and get unstuck in your creative writing process. You will, if you are ready for, move out of your comfort zone, feel a little bit more free and liberated.
Your commitment is very flexible: you will receive every week a thematic package, and you can realize the exercises when you feel it is the right moment for you.
This weekly creative package will contain:
- inspirations: texts, audio-visual materials from diverse artists, authors, creators
- instructions to realize an immersive writing experience on your own;
- an expressive writing and/or a structured creative writing exercise;
- monthly individual call (max. 30 min) with one of the unlearning facilitators to discuss your process, creations, feelings, feedback...
topics
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course objectives
One of our objectives is to allow you to write without the pressure of "it has to be good" because it hasn't.
We also want you to forget about the seriousness of art making, and just enjoy writing without seeing it as the creation process towards a finished work, ready to be read publicly or published.
But most importantly, we would like you to be yourself. Stop wanting to prove yourself to the literary art world, to be validated with an institution, to be liked, followed, published. Stop being manipulated by the market, stop creating for open calls, stop adapting your art, stop responding to trends. Resist, unlearn, revolt! Dare to be you: defy self-doubt, fearlessly follow your own path and be confidently yourself!
We also want you to forget about the seriousness of art making, and just enjoy writing without seeing it as the creation process towards a finished work, ready to be read publicly or published.
But most importantly, we would like you to be yourself. Stop wanting to prove yourself to the literary art world, to be validated with an institution, to be liked, followed, published. Stop being manipulated by the market, stop creating for open calls, stop adapting your art, stop responding to trends. Resist, unlearn, revolt! Dare to be you: defy self-doubt, fearlessly follow your own path and be confidently yourself!
learning outcomes
- Get unstuck in your creative process, unblock your creativity;
- Get inspired and boost your imagination;
- Develop out-of-the-box thinking and making;
- Accentuate your uniqueness, find your own style, artistic voice and personal aesthetic;
- Experiment with immersive and experimental methodologies, try out new techniques of creation;
- Write as you are, be who you are: defy self-doubt, follow your own artistic path and create confidently;
- Challenge literary conventions and traditional canons, confront standards, beauty norms;
- Take the path of the non-conform, the unusual, the risky, the unexpected.
practical information
Language (speaking / writing / reading): Classes are written in English, however you can write your texts in your mother tongue.
Application deadline: Ongoing
Flexible commitment: Please note, this is not a live event. No physical attendance is required for our online course. You can partake in your own time. Resources will be emailed weekly. There is no completion deadline.
Participant's profile: The course is open access for everyone, with or without any experience. You can enroll online by clicking on the "Apply here" button on this page.
Course length: 4 months, commencing when you want, you can subscribe at any time.
Price:
Application deadline: Ongoing
Flexible commitment: Please note, this is not a live event. No physical attendance is required for our online course. You can partake in your own time. Resources will be emailed weekly. There is no completion deadline.
Participant's profile: The course is open access for everyone, with or without any experience. You can enroll online by clicking on the "Apply here" button on this page.
Course length: 4 months, commencing when you want, you can subscribe at any time.
Price:
- Subscription / month: 60€ (5 lessons) / month
- Subscription for 4 months: 200€ (20 lessons)
unlearning facilitator
Anna Ádám
Expressive & IMMERSIVE WRITING