Our next meeting....

Greetings, Wild Women! 

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. We will be meeting at the Artisan Bakery and Cafe in the Durango Public library from 6 to 8 p.m. Please bring a work in progress to share with the group. 

I'm pleased to announce some new members are interested in joining us, and I know you'll all make them feel welcome.

Please RSVP and let me know if you can make this meeting. You can email stealingplums@yahoo.com or call 759-9993 to RSVP. 

Keep writing!

Social meeting next week!

I bet you all have decided that our Social Meetings are only a myth.  We really do want to continue with these.


We will hold our next social on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 in Conference Room 100 of Durango Office Suites, from 6 to 8 p.m.  They are asking us to use a different entrance, so I have included the directions below.  BYOB and everyone can chip in on a pizza, unless someone has a better idea. 

Directions: Enter from 101 W 11th Street into the Crossroads Durango building (same entrance we use for our regular meetings.)  Follow the west hallway and Room 100 directional signs. Turn left and connect into the Durango Office Suites historic building. Follow this hallway and the conference room will be on your right.

Reading on Dec. 7!!

Wild Women Writing Group is having a reading from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7, located in program room 1 of the Durango Public Library. There will also be an after-party at the Lost Dog. Introduction/ "Stars" by Molly Anderson-Childers "The Green Man" by Molly Anderson-Childers "Midnight Music" and "Wool Shawl" by Alane Brown "Parenthood in America" by Elaine A. "Love Is..." by Ellen Alterman "Spring Energy" by Alane Brown "Last Light" by Holly Keohane "Ashes" by Alane Brown "Gnomus" by Ellen Alterman "When I First Came Here to Heal" by Elaine A. "Light a White Candle: Hope" by Molly Anderson-Childers "Thirteen Rules" by Elaine A. "Vamp" by Ellen Alterman "Pause Between Clauses" by Alane Brown "The Moon" by Molly Anderson-Childers "313 Rowan Street" by Holly Keohane "Long Dance" by Alane Brown "A Writer's Ritual" by Molly Anderson-Childers "Poem for the Times" by Ellen Alterman "Free Write" by Alane Brown   Wild Women Writing was founded by Molly Anderson-Childers, with the support of the Women's Resource Center.  For more information about our group, or to donate to our free lending library for writers, please check out our blog at www.wildwomenwriting.blogspot.com or call Ms. Anderson-Childers at 970-759-9993.

NANO news from Holly Lisle

I turned fifty on October 8th.
I've made it a point for the last few years to do something cool
for the folks on my lists on my birthday...and this year, between
migraines, vertigo, launching Rebel Tales, and other things, my
birthday just got away from me.
But National Novel Writing Month starts November 1st, and I've also
done something cool for those madmen and madwomen of writing, the
NaNo'ers.
This year, I'm combining the two.
If you join either my fiction-writing course How To Think Sideways:http://howtothinksideways.com/members/?awt_l=4xO3h&awt_m=1aS2VuEHR6aXgP
Or my How To Revise Your Novel course:http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=4xO3h&m=1aS2VuEHR6aXgP&b=zTQgsW9mQVhY_CFQVlydNA
AND if you do it ON or BEFORE November 1st, I'll give you a free
copy of each of the following two video courses:
How To Motivate Yourself
How To Write Subtext in Dialogue
Each of these courses currently sells on my site for $47.95. You
can see the details below.

• How To Motivate Yourself
  
• How To Write Dialogue With Subtext
  

IF YOU'RE ALREADY A STUDENT...
Each course will appear as a lesson page in your student
area (which means you ALSO get my gift).
How To Motivate Yourself will be particularly useful for NaNoers
bracing themselves to confront the one-month novel---but so will
the NaNo boards in both How To Think Sideways and How To Revise
Your Novel.
Both bonuses will disappear November 2nd.
If you're already a student or grad and you don't yet have these,
now is the time to log in, watch them in the student theater, and
download your copies.
If you're not yet a student, come join us.
Join How To Think Sideways:http://howtothinksideways.com/members/
or...
Join How To Revise Your Novel:http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=4xO3h&m=1aS2VuEHR6aXgP&b=70EL7iW6wfE23BrLWAy9Lg
And Happy Birthday/ Happy NaNoWriMo! I hope I'll see you in class.
Write with joy,
Holly
P.S. Remember that November 1st is the last day to sign up and get
the video courses as my gift. I'll remove them at 10 PM EST
November 2nd. This will give everyone time to download them,
as well as to watch them in the student theater if you like.
Signing up soon will give you more time.
Join How To Think Sideways:http://howtothinksideways.com/members/
Join How To Revise Your Novel:http://howtoreviseyournovel.com

Class offered on the meaning of art...

  ART IS TRANSFORMATIVE!

I want to let you know that extraordinary thinker and artist Rikk Morris has moved to the Durango area and is offering an exciting 5-week class on the deep meaning and power of art. I have been working with Rikk to get his ideas on paper and his work is truly profound. This is what we wish we had learned in art school. Rikk will be holding an informal discussion night on Tuesday, October 26, as a precursor to this class. I highly recommend Rikk's discussion night and/or class to anyone involved in the arts.

Warning: this knowledge will change you fundamentally as a person!  Rikk Morris has developed his transformative theory of the essence of art throughout a lifetime of service to art and to children. Come to the GroundUp Arts Collective on Tuesday, October 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. and join in a free preliminary discussion group of this exciting topic. Here are some of the issues that will be brought up in the group:

"What is your role as an artist in society?  How would it feel to have your art be in demand? Do you feel it is essential for you to do your own work? You MUST do your art because it is transformative!! Art is empowering and dangerous: it enables you to become the author of your own being.  It is highly political because it  teaches you to screen information. It is YOUR responsibility to make sense of what you see and hear in the world. This is much bigger than what we've called "art" till now. Art is the crack in the mental curtain between us and the Great Mystery. It leads us to discover the magnificent order behind all things. Art leaves us changed forever, as it reveals dimensions of being heretofore unimagined."

Be there or be square!

Cheers,
Jess Martin

Social meeting this week...

Our first new social meeting will be on Tuesday, Oct. 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Crossroads Building. 


The meeting will be held on the outdoor patio of the Crossroads Building (with heaters available) and we do have a back up room in case of truly inclement weather. Elise and Laura Catton will be hosting this inaugural meeting and will serve a few munchies and supply water and soda.  If you would like to bring anything else to drink, feel free... BYOB. 


(Conference Room 308 in the Crossroads Building is on the southwest corner of 11th and Main. Take the stairs to the third floor and walk down the long hall.  The conference room will be on your left just before the corner.)
Hope to see you all there!!

Social meeting time

The details for the new "Social Meeting" have been worked out.  We will hold this new meeting on the first Wednesday of each month in Durango Office Suites, Conference Room 100, (just down the block from the Crossroads Building) from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  This will be a gathering of writers for the purpose of brainstorming, inspiration and camaraderie.  If you can't make it on time, come when you can; if you can't stay for the whole meeting, that's Ok, too.  The use of the bigger conference room facilitates the unstructured format of the meeting, allowing groups to break off and pursue a thought or discussion of their own making.

That being said, due to scheduling conflicts, our first "Social Meeting" will actually be held on the first Tuesday, October 5th, and will be held on the outdoor patio of the Crossroads Building (with heaters available) and we do have a back up room in case of truly inclement weather.  Elise and I will be hosting this inaugural meeting and will serve a few munchies and supply water and soda.  If you would like to bring anything else to drink, feel free... BYOB.

The outdoor patio is on the third floor of the Crossroads Building, half way down the hall to Conference Room 308.  Take a left down the short hall and out the door.  Please RSVP to this email and we hope to see everyone there.  If you need any information or further directions, don't hesitate to contact me.
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I'm offering a grant writing and fellowship class geared for artists and writers. It begins Sept. 29 and continues for 4 sessions. Please consider signing up or share with those who might be interested.

Leanne Goebel
Award-winning Arts Journalist
International Association of Art Critics/USA

2009 NEA International Arts Journalism Institute in the Visual Arts participant
2007 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant recipientartsjournalist@mac.com
http://leannegoebel.com
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"The arts flourish only when there are arbiters at work and civilisation dies when their voice is stilled." Norman Lebrecht