What does it actually imply to make issues?
Listed here are some ideas which were swirling in my thoughts:
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Work got here lengthy earlier than galleries.
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Dancing got here lengthy earlier than levels.
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Tales got here lengthy earlier than books, and even longer earlier than The New York Instances Greatest Sellers listing.
Beneath all of the noise of “productiveness” and “price” there’s something a lot easier: The starvation to make one thing out of nothing.
I acquired that definition of creativity — to make one thing out of nothing — from the author Oli Mould. He tracks the historical past of creativity and writes quite a bit about the way it acquired mashed up with the forces of industrialism, capitalism, and classism, dropping the purity of its unique hearth.
I perceive that, I really feel it, and but.. I nonetheless see that fireside within the shaky voices of workshop individuals, telling me why they’re in school. I see it in my staff’s faces, uplifted by the enjoyment of witnessing different individuals’s inventive mild. I really feel it in my chest once I’m on the verge of the suitable sentence (and once I can’t discover it.)
We have to make one thing out of nothing — not for status, however as a result of we exist. As a result of we’re hungry. As a result of making issues returns us to ourselves, and one another.
So what do you wish to make this 12 months?
Who do you wish to write a letter to?
What’s the story that solely you may inform?
How is that unique hearth of inventive starvation making an attempt to be expressed?
We’re operating a free workshop this Friday to take a seat on this query.
It’ll mark the tip of the primary full week of 2025, so we’ll make some house to exhale, collect up inventive vitality, and be in service of the query — what do you wish to make this 12 months?
We’ll be sampling the wares of a few of our winter workshops that also have house.
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We’ll borrow from Kim’s upcoming Phrase Play Workshop and experiment with the enjoyment of language.
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We’ll attain for Mari’s on-line Temporary Bursts and create some radical brevity.
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We’ll contact into Asifa’s on-line Focus and Move, exploring writing stream this 12 months.
Even if in case you have no plans to take an additional workshop, please come! All you want is 90 minutes, an Web connection, and the need to make one thing out of nothing.
