Improv for Scriptwriting
with Stephen Sheffer The skills used to spontaneously create stories on the stage are also useful on the page! Join improviser, writer & actor Stephen Sheffer for a 2-hour workshop … Continue reading Improv for Scriptwriting
with Stephen Sheffer The skills used to spontaneously create stories on the stage are also useful on the page! Join improviser, writer & actor Stephen Sheffer for a 2-hour workshop … Continue reading Improv for Scriptwriting
Honoring the Voice of Water Have you ever wandered what Water would say if they could speak with human words? Have rivers ever communicated with you? Have you ever talked … Continue reading Honoring the Voice of Water: a storytelling workshop with Talking Rivers
Participants will explore how a writer prepares for travel, the writer’s mindset while traveling, and the skills needed to rekindle the experience in the reader’s mind. During the workshop they … Continue reading Travel Writing: Finding Your Way with Ken Youngblood
Story Publishing Camp: write, design, and print your own original bookFor children in grades 5-8August 12 - 16, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM (5 days, 15 hours of class time) Adirondack Center for … Continue reading Story Publishing Camp (Grades 5-8)
Join us Wed, Aug 14, at 6:30 PM for a night of live storytelling with the theme “Close Call.” Anyone can sign up to tell a story at the beginning of the … Continue reading Howl Story Slam at Ausable Brewing
Join us Thu, Aug 22, at 6:30 PM for a night of live storytelling with the theme “Close Call.” Anyone can sign up to tell a story at the beginning of the … Continue reading Howl Story Slam at Bolton Landing Brewing
Join us Thu, Sept 5, at 7 PM for a night of live storytelling with the theme “Close Call.” Anyone can sign up to tell a story at the beginning of the night! Stories must be: No tickets needed. Admission to each slam is a $10/pay-what-you-can donation which will be split between ACW & our Howl partner, NCPR.
Friday, September 13, 7 PM, ACW, FREE Watch 12 short films and hear the poems they inspired. Filmmaker Michael Hart enlisted six North Country writers to create new work inspired by his short, experimental films. Hart composed music and used recordings of the poems to create an expansive, interdisciplinary art collaboration. Moving Stills premiered in Malone … Continue reading Moving Stills: Film + Poetry
Join us Wed, Sept 18, at 7 PM for a night of live storytelling with the theme “Close Call.” Anyone can sign up to tell a story at the beginning of the night! Stories must be: No tickets needed. Admission to each slam is a $10/pay-what-you-can donation which will be split between ACW & our Howl partner, NCPR.
A Public Speaking Workshop Thursday, Sept 26th, 6:30 PM | Free To get our vote, today’s politicians give speeches almost every day. How can we judge the truth of what they say? The principles of rhetoric, the art of persuasion, give us the tools to analyze these speeches, to find the truth. This workshop is … Continue reading It’s Called Rhetoric
What I Want You to Know: A Legacy Writing Workshopwith Marilyn McCabeAdults age 55+Adirondack Foundation (Heaven Hill Farm): 304 Bear Cub Rd, Lake Placid, NY 129468 weeks: Tuesdays, Oct 15 - Dec 3 from 10am - 11:30am Registration Fee (Sliding Scale - Pay What You Can): $80 - $200 Join ACW for an 8-week creative … Continue reading What I Want You to Know: A Legacy Writing Workshop (Section 2)
with Sophie Morelli+ Open Mic Wednesday, October 16 - 7 PM - ACW - FREE In 1933 Mabel Smith Douglass took a row boat across Lake Placid and never returned. You've probably heard her referred to as "The Lady in the Lake", but in Fathom (Bottlecap Press, 2024), Sophie Morelli asks: who was Mabel Smith Douglass, and what can we … Continue reading Lady in the Lake