Elevenses: Creative Writing At the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Elevenses is coming to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery. “A lot of people are like, ‘Elevenses? What is Elevenses?’ Well, Elevenses is the time of day.  I believe it's a Harry Potter thing, but it's not really why I like it. I like it because it's a great name for the time of day. We're going to meet at 11 and really the whole intent of doing this is to spark imagination. It really is not so much about creative writing and preparing something that's going to come to completion. It's about a process. So we're going to enter this evocative  experiential  installation space at the Old Schoolhouse Gallery at 11 o'clock Wednesday, July 24th as a group,” explained Jane Newman, who will lead this creative writing workshop.  “I will have crafted a number of different prompts and questions for people to respond to in sort of timed writing segments.” “It isn't a traditional exhibition where there's paintings all around the room with labels on them and their price and the name and everything. It's called an installation and an installation has a different sort of form in the gallery.”  “It's a little bit more interactive experiential. It may hit you on an emotional level just as far as the mood of the space. It may be misunderstood. It may be confusing.  It may be that our responses are ephemeral and we don't really know what we're feeling, but we're going to  capture it. We're going to stop, reflect, write, share, move forward, another prompt,  stop, reflect, write, share, move forward another prompt“. “We'll be in that space. We'll interact with each other just in that we're in the room together, but really interacting with the installation by Ebony Rose. That's the intent. That's the process. This installation will be a little bit of a mystery to begin with for many, and we will meet the muses.”  “There will be an opportunity to share back too, because that's always really interesting. If people don't want to share back, they don't have to share back.”