Upcoming Labs
& Other Offerings
Upcoming Labs
Join us for our upcoming labs!
Writing the Wild Labs are short-term experiences open to anyone, from new to experienced writers. We would love for you to join us!
Space will be limited. Join our email list to be notified when registration opens for new labs. Learn more about our facilitators here.
PLAY: Creative cross-training with Adam Himebauch
Thursday, May 16, 10-11:30am PDT
Playful risk-taking is essential to artistic growth, whether the medium is paint, clay, or words. In this lab, artist Adam Himebauch will share his artistic approach, which involves collaborating with our younger selves. He'll guide us in a hands-on creative method he uses to boost intuitive creativity. This lab is open to all types of creatives: Creative cross-training suggests that similar creative principles apply to and across all art forms, and in this lab, artists and writers will learn together. By improving and progressing in one area of art-making, we enhance our skills in all areas of art-making.
Cost: $50
Writing the Wild Cohort Member Cost: $30
Please bring:
3 blank pieces of paper
a pencil
crayons or colored pencils
colored construction paper (3 different colors)
scissors
This live, participatory Zoom session will not be recorded. Partial scholarships may be available. Contact us to apply.
Learn more about Adam Himebauch here.
Range Maps: A Writing Lab with J. Drew Lanham
Tuesday, May 28, 4-5:30pm PDT
An ornithologist thinks about how birds end up where they are—preferences for certain habitats (field, forest or wetland), foods (insects, flower, nectar or fruit), tolerances for extreme temperatures (snowy owls in Arctic subzero or roadrunners in desert heat) or even mate choices (we know that females often do the choosing). For most birds there's a multi-colored blob in some field guide that gives us an idea of how that particular bird lives its life: where it winters, breeds and how it makes it way in between.
Have you ever thought about your own personal range map? Where do you live? Where do you bird? Are there places you avoid or that present danger to your birder being? What expands your range of being? What restricts it?
Asking these questions and thinking about how we find comfort in this place or that—with whomever we love, in whatever identity we choose or chooses us—is crucial if we are to truly be our best selves. It's not just a question of watching birds, it's a matter of being who we are.*
Join ornithologist/writer J. Drew Lanham in this lab hosted by Writing the Wild, Tuesday, May 28, 2024 (4-5:30pm PDT). This live, online event will include readings and writing prompts; we will write to feather fascination but with feeling as the guide. We won't leave the science behind, but will integrate conscience into the craft. New and experienced writers, bird-loving journalers, and all other curious humans are welcome.
Cost: $50
Writing the Wild Cohort Member Cost: $30
Please bring:
Writing materials
Colored pencils
Printed copies of two maps, hand-drawn by Kate Rutter (emailed ahead of time)
This live, participatory Zoom session will not be recorded. Partial scholarships may be available. Contact us to apply.
Learn more about J. Drew Lanham here.
*From the forthcoming book, "Range Maps: Birds, Blackness and Loving Nature Between the Two (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 202?).
More to come from Writing the Wild Labs
Writing the Wild Labs are offered throughout the winter and spring. These are small group, short term, intensive workshops around a particular theme or topic. Writing the Wild lab participants will receive early opportunity to register for our 2024-2025 cohort.
