Turning Problems Into Mysteries

Turning Problems Into Mysteries

4-day workshop / UCLA Arts and Healing

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Curiosity is a key to looking at life experiences in a new light. This 4-session workshop is designed to open your mind to investigating burdensome issues in your life with creative objectivity. By looking at your challenges from altered perspectives and through a fresh lens, you will have the opportunity to make a shift-to actively shape your stories and create a new reality.

Each session's writing experiences will inform the next. The series will offer creative writing techniques to help us clarify our issues and intentions, express our feelings, access other perspectives, challenge our assumptions, and demystify who we are and what we want.

You will have the opportunity to track your progress over the course of the workshop and, at the end of the series, reflect upon shifts made over the previous weeks.

This program is for writers and non-writers who seek greater well-being through a practice that can have sustained ripple effects.

Instructor: Karin Gutman

Dates & Times:
4 Mondays (April 30, May 14, May 21, and June 4)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. 
Please note that there will be no class on the weeks of May 7 and 28.

Location:
Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Room 275
Audrey and Sydney Irmas Campus in West Los Angeles
11661 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064

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UCLArts and Healing is a partnership between the Arts and Healing Initiative, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, and the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine.
 

Literary Los Angeles: A Road Guide

Literary Los Angeles Release Party

Friday, March 23rd, 7:30 p.m.

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart/826 LA
1714 W. Sunset Blvd.

Los Angeles 90026

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Join The Echo Park Time Travel Mart and 826LA in celebrating the release of Literary Los Angeles: A Road Guide, a map of Los Angeles that includes all of the literary pit stops in the city. The evening will include drinks and readings from map contributors, including Los Angeles-based writers Wanda Coleman, Nina Revoyr, Luis J. Rodriguez, and David Ulin; moderated by Tom Lutz.

Nantucket Film Festival: Screenplay Competition

The Nantucket Film Festival was founded by brother and sister team Jill and Jonathan Burkhart in 1996. The Burkharts lived on the island year round, and with their love of movies and the community, they knew it was the perfect place to begin a film festival. These days, NFF has become one of the premiere destination film festivals in the world. This year's festival will take place June 20th-24th. 

Showtime's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition recognizes an emerging screenplay as the best from the pool of submissions each year. The competition gives writers the opportunity to have their scripts read by a prestigious jury, receive top industry recognition, participate in a Festival focused specifically on screenwriting, including a Mentor's Brunch with the Festival's Screenwriters Tributee, and win-in addition to a $5,000 cash prize-an incredible, all-inclusive month's stay on stunning Nantucket at the Screenwriter's Colony.

Upcoming submission deadlines for films and the Tony Cox Screenplay Competition:

March 12, 2012: Regular Deadline

March 26, 2012: Late Deadline

All submissions processed through www.withoutabox.com.

Expressing Motherhood

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The unique idea for Expressing Motherhood came about in January 2008.

Lindsay Kavet and Jessica Cribbs found themselves wanting to tap into their former creative sides pre-baby. They wanted a platform for moms to get up on stage and share their stories regarding motherhood. The show is fully produced via computer, so the moms can still be at home with their children. They've taken the show to Los Angeles, NYC and Boston, selling out every night. Lindsay and Jessica have had four more children since the shows began!

Don't miss Expressing Motherhood's Los Angeles show taking place at The Elephant Space in Hollywood March 9-11, 2012. 5% of all proceeds will be donated to Family Care International.

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MFA in Screenwriting: Cal State Fullerton

California State University Fullerton is now accepting applications for its graduate program in Screenwriting.

The Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting is an intensive, two-year degree program in writing for narrative feature film, short films, television dramas and comedies, as well as new media. Writing classes are small and taught in a seminar atmosphere by professors with professional experience in the entertainment industry. 

Entry into the program is competitive, based on acceptance into California State University Fullerton as well as the applicant's submission of materials to the Radio-TV-Film graduate program. A total of 42 units are required to finish the M.F.A. program. Classes begin fall 2012.

Deadline for applications: March 1st.

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Santa Monica Artist Fellowship

The City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division is pleased to announce the third year of the Santa Monica Artist Fellowship program. Five annual fellowships are available to Santa Monica-based artists to nourish and stimulate the creation of new work, acknowledge our community's regard for creativity and innovation, and recognize excellence.

Three 2012 Project Fellowships of $3,000 each are now available by application. Santa Monica-based artists seeking funding for study, individual exploration, in-depth exchange or creative opportunities related to the development or presentation of new work may apply. For updated guidelines and an application, visit the Fellowship page on the website.

Two Fellowships of $20,000 will also be awarded to Santa Monica artists via a nominations process.

Deadline for applications: 5:00 pm, January 30, 2012.

BAD SANTA

PEN Center USA & Dirty Laundry Lit

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"BAD SANTA"

A Seasonal Offering Of The Naughtiest Lit South Of Santa's Pole

Saturday, December 3rd

7 p.m.

Little Temple

4519 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles 90029

Join PEN Center USA and Dirty Laundry Lit for an evening of readings by Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Preston Witt, Christopher Ross, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Richard Lee Warren, and Jo Robbins; hosted by Jeff Eyres and live music by DJ Cazel.

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A Tribute to Spaulding Gray

Writers' Bloc Presents:

A Tribute to Spalding Gray  

With Nell Casey, Peter Gallagher, David Ulin and others

Tuesday, November 8th

7:30 p.m.

If you had the great good fortune to see Spalding Gray perform his unforgettable monologues, then you fell under his confessional spell, and you subsequently arrived at the logical conclusion that he bared his heart, soul and guts to you. His suicide in 2004 left a gaping hole in our national literary landscape.

In The Journals of Spalding Gray (masterfully edited and explained by Nell Casey), the reader realizes that an enormous opportunity has just been dropped in front of us: the opportunity to see a bit inside the heart and soul of the man who brought us so much. What Spalding Gray didn't deliver to us in his performances, Nell Casey delivers to us now. Check out the excerpt in the New York Times Magazine from October 6, 2011.

Writers Bloc hosts Nell Casey (editor of the bestselling Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression), in conversation with David Ulin, book critic for the Los Angeles Times, and actors, including Peter Gallagher, who will read from the journals.

Tickets, $20. Laemmle Sunset 5 Theaters. 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Free parking with validation. To make a reservation, click here.

Steve Jobs: Words of Wisdom

Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement speech in 2005...

Call For Writers: Artist Residency

CALL FOR WRITERS

Artist Residency at the

Annenberg Community Beach House  

The City of Santa Monica, Cultural Affairs Division, seeks applications from writers living in Los Angeles County for a residency at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica. The Artist Residency offers a large private office in the historic Marion Davies Guest House for ten weeks to complete a work in progress.

The Residency begins Monday, January 16, 2012 and concludes Monday, March 26, 2012 for a total of 10 weeks. As an acknowledgment of the public benefit of the Resident to the community, an honorarium of $1500 is offered.  
 
Application Deadline: Friday, November 4th, 2011 @ 5 p.m. For questions about the Residency, please leave a message for Naomi Okuyama, Cultural Affairs Coordinator at 310-310-0187 or email isanaomi.okuyama@smgov.net