Artists and Writers Retreat --Fall ‘09
September 4-7, 2009
St. Dorothy's Rest Camp and Retreat Center, Occidental CA
Artists and Writers Weekends have proven a great place to begin new work, a time to try things, a place to invest a special quality of attention in a project or task, a place to make and sustain friendships with other artists and writers.
The Creative Process
This retreat nurtures imagination and creative work. Twenty five years of Artists and Writers Retreats have taught us what extraordinary creative work we can do on a weekend away with friends and strangers
On this creative weekend we will form together:
--an environment where beginning artists and writers and seasoned, disciplined practitioners can contribute to one another.
--respectful, appreciative listening or seeing new work that encourages the maker’s own inspiration and vision.
--a deepening of everyone’s creative discovery through sharing work and reflecting on what we see emerge through various media.
Gathering Together
Daylight hours are time we work artistically. At meals we hear or see brief bits of new work. Evenings we share fresh work for feedback.
Some of us are regular churchgoers, some not at all. Some are looking for new ways to explore the holy in art and stretching the boundaries of what that can include. Others are resolutely secular in their inspiration. What we share is the knowledge that creative expression flows directly from our ordinary humanity and honoring and expressing creativity makes it a wellspring of joy, refreshment, and meaning.
Outside Your Own Medium
What can a painter see from writing a short vignette? What might a writer discover sculpting and choreographing a non-verbal interaction with two other artists? Will a composer find melody, rhythm, and harmony in a paintbox? An optional two-hour Discovery Workshop will take participants outside their usual medium for a taste of “Beginners Mind.” If you’d like to help develop this part of the retreat contact Donald Schell: donald@allsaintscompany.org.
Registration
To register, download and print the registration page from the link below, then mail it back to St. Dorothy’s Rest with your 20% deposit. There IS a size limit to the weekend, and accommodations are offered on a first-come basis, so register early and we’ll see you there!
printable brochure and Registration form: AW_Registration_2009.pdf
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ST. DOROTHY’S REST
A Hundred Years of Creative Growth
Since its founding in 1901 on a newly logged bluff and cliffside, St. Dorothy’s Rest has inspired art and creative growth. In a hundred years, redwood roots sent up shoots from the bare hillside that grew into the tall trees that shelter us offering living inspiration and quiet.
The human settlement on the hillside shares that living quality - architecture and tradition root us in California’s home-grown Arts and Crafts movement. The raw natural redwood of the buildings, the comfortable Mission and Arts and Crafts furnishings, the soaring views through small-paned windows and miles of abandoned railroad bed for walking and thinking all make this place not just ‘a Rest’ (as the motto from Virgil’s Aeneid declares) but a fertile place of healing, imagination, and creative friendship.
St. Dorothy’s Rest and All Saints Company
All Saints Company and St. Dorothy’s Rest partner to continue the retreat that St. Gregory’s Church, San Francisco founded, extending a wide invitation to creative arts practitioners across the diocese of California (and encouraging them to invite their friends!) Our common ground will continue to be creative practice, making new work, and sharing it.
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