Artists and Writers Retreats
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
For 25 years, Artists and Writers Weekends at St. Dorothy’s Rest have taught us how much extraordinary creative work can happen in a weekend away with friends and strangers. This retreat in the redwoods of northern California is a powerful place for nurturing imagination and patient work.
On this creative weekend we will form together:
--an environment where beginning artists and writers and seasoned, disciplined practitioners can contribute to one another.
--safe, trustworthy ways to share new work without killing the inspiration.
--a new understanding of the creative process through shared work and reflection on what we’re seeing 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.
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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
This year All Saints Company and St. Dorothy’s Rest will be continuing the retreat that St. Gregory’s Church, San Francisco founded. The new partners are 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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