Come practice yoga outside in the grounds of The Darby led by Liana Rosenberg. This class is an open level vinyasa yoga, just bring you own yoga mat and towel.
A creative workshop, led by Caroline Preziosi and Tom Bosket of ENGN for youth & community centered around defining career opportunities and identifying skills applicable to our individual and communal ecosystems, co-conceived by Mildred’s Lane and ENGN, an educational nonprofit based in Callicoon, NY. “Adapt and Thrive” invites participants to create trading cards featuring their unique “adaptations,” drawing on the world of animals, plants, and fantasy characters, as an exercise in thinking through our abilities to survive and thrive in catastrophic times. The workshop interweaves the annual DWLF topic of utopia with themes of the concurrent Mildred’s Lane residency-retreat on interspecies dialogues and class struggle.
The workshop will think through questions like: What is your own utopian vision? How would you operate in a perfect world, and what kinds of work would you do or not do? What are ways that you see the plants, animals, and humans around you adapting their skills to meet the needs of a changing environment? How can survival skills you have learned and developed through your own life experiences translate into skills applicable to different workspaces? Materials will be available for writing and illustrating trading cards that explore these questions as an approach to identifying a “career” in a more fluid and holistic way.
The workshop will be followed by an open-house at the Mildred Complex(ity), the field office and living archive of experimental arts residency Mildred’s Lane Inc, to showcase student work and invite members of the public to participate in conversation and creation.
This event is organized as part of Mildred’s Lane 2024 TOWN FRIDAY event series, which is supported in part with funding from a Sullivan County Arts & Heritage Grant, funded by the Sullivan County Legislature and administered by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.
Learn how to transform a memory or experience from your life into the focused art of flash memoir (under 1000 words) with writer and editor Melisse Gelula. This is a nonfiction writing workshop for adults 18 years and up. No formal writing experience necessary!
Together we’ll read contemporary examples of flash memoir, identifying the tools writers use to achieve their short, sweet—and emotionally rich—stories.
Attendees will begin a draft of their flash memoir in the workshop and receive ideas and motivation for continuing independently at home. If time allows, some attendees may have the opportunity to share their new work.
Please bring a pen and notebook.
This workshop welcomes the participation and partnership of Tusten Social Sage Sessions.
Tim Bruno of WJFF Radio Catskill leads a podcasting workshop for middle and high school students. Learn the fundamentals of what makes a fresh story, crafting a narrative, and creating a pitch. Award winning podcaster and journalist Ilya Marritz will be on hand to discuss his process and ground the class in some of the basics of investigative reporting.
Open to ages 12-18.
Space is limited.
Isadora Alteon will lead a workshop for middle and high school students on worldbuilding in dystopic fiction. Students will get a grounding in the genre, looking closely at text from 1984 and other sources. Marlon James will discuss his process and then students will independently create the beginnings of their own world in writing or visually.
Open to writers and visual artists aged 12-18.
Space is limited.
Some art and writing supplies provided but if there is a medium you like to work in please feel free to bring.
Why Do Actors Train? (Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama) is a new book by local theatre artist and scholar, Brad Krumholz. Focusing on recent developments in neuroscience, philosophy, and related fields, the author develops a new theory of embodiment to investigate the actor’s craft.
Join the author in a lively conversation with Jason Tougaw to catch a glimpse of how all of us, not just actors, encounter the material world and the invisible forces at play within it. The session will include a short, non-compulsory workshop element. All are welcome to listen and/or participate.
Presented in collaboration with North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL) in Highland Lake, Sullivan County, NY.
