The Creative Blender Workshop with Elee Kraljii Gardiner

Get your creative mojo working!

Join Elee for an inspiring mix of exercises in all genres and styles, guaranteed to get things moving in your creative life. Tips, techniques and take-aways galore. Bring a pen, pencil or laptop, and get ready for takeoff! This interactive workshop will push your writing in new directions.

Elee Kraljii Gardiner founded and directs Thursdays Writing Collective, a program of free, drop-in creative writing classes in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. She is the editor and publisher of five chapbooks from the Collective, including V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, which was shortlisted for the 2012 City of Vancouver Book Award. Her writing, which earned the 2011 Lina Chartrand Poetry Award, appears in North American anthologies and publications.

The Creative Blender
When: Saturday, April 13, 2013
Time: 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Where: W Room, Woodward's Building, 5th floor, 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. Map.
Price: $50 for the Creative Blender or
$75 for the Creative Blender and From Diary to Graphic Narrative Workshop Bundle.

Click here to register for the Creative Blender.
Click here to register for the Workshop Bundle.
Or call 604-681-9161 to register by phone.

**Please note: Only the Creative Blender and From Diary to Graphic Narrative can be bundled. Other workshops cannot be bundled.

From Diary to Graphic Narrative with Sarah Leavitt

Thinking about sharing your personal experience in a short comic or full-length book? This 3-hour workshop will introduce you to writing a graphic memoir, with lots of drawing and writing exercises and a little bit of discussion. You'll learn the basics of composition, focus, viewpoint and story. People of all drawing abilities are encouraged to join.

Sarah Leavitt is a writer and cartoonist. Her first book, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me, a graphic memoir, has been published in Canada, the US and the UK, and a German edition is forthcoming in May 2013. Sarah holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, but is largely self-taught as an artist and cartoonist. She has taught workshops, developed an introductory university course on comics and has read from her work at numerous festivals.

From Diary to Graphic Narrative
When: Saturday, April 13, 2013
Time: 2 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Where: W Room, Woodward's Building, 5th floor, 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. Map.
Price: $50 for From Diary to Graphic Narrative or
$75 for From Diary to Graphic Narrative and the Creative Blender Workshop Bundle

Click here to register for From Diary to Graphic Narrative.
Click here to register for the Workshop Bundle.
Or call 604-681-9161 to register by phone.

**Please note: Only the Creative Blender and From Diary to Graphic Narrative can be bundled. Other workshops cannot be bundled.