June 22, 2024

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS WRITER’S BLOCK??

FOUR DIFFERENT CLASSES WITH FOUR DIFFERENT NEOS
WEDNESDAYS, JULY 31ST-August 21ST, 6:30pm-9:30pm
$60 FOR AN INDIVIDUAL CLASS OR $200 for THE 4-WEEK BUNDLE

 

This summer, The Neo-Futurists are offering four workshops in four weeks with four different Neo instructors, all exploring various routes and approaches to get past the walls we put up creatively, aiming to make new work more freely and playfully. Take all the classes in a bundle and save $40, with the discounted price of $200 for all four. Class descriptions below.

 

ENROLL IN THE 4-WEEK BUNDLE

 

WEEK ONE

TRUTH AND FANFIC
TAUGHT BY JASMINE HENRI JORDAN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31ST, 6:30PM-9:30PM

Is there a fictional cannon you could talk at length about, but when asked to share a fun fact about yourself, you freeze? FanFic encourages the radical imagination that it takes to imagine the world we want to live in. What that world looks like says a lot about author. In this workshop with ensemble member Jasmine Henri Jordan, students will identify the tools that make the fanatics, the nerds, and the chronically online the best storytellers and put them in their own toolbox. Take that story you’ve been dying to tell from bore to lore.

ENROLL IN TRUTH AND FANFIC

 

WEEK TWO

FROM A TO B TO Z TO A: WEAVING SOURCES AND SELF
TAUGHT BY ANNIE SHARE
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7TH, 6:30PM-9:30PM

Did the new Charli XCX album remind you of your childhood frenemy? Remember that one time he came over and you watched Chasing Liberty starring Mandy Moore? Which is partially filmed in Prague, and you just read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, which made you think, “Wow, we are all so unbearably alone. It’s cool that Charli and Lorde were able to work it out on the remix. Maybe I should reach out to everyone I ever hurt, too. Like Josh from 6th grade.” The books and music and news articles and histories we’re drawn to are constantly shaping and re-shaping our relationships to our own stories. In this class with ensemble member Annie Share, we will collage them all together to find new meaning.

WEEK THREE

THE DUMBEST THOUGHT FROM THE DUMBEST PART OF YOUR BRAIN 
TAUGHT BY NEIL BHANDARI
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 6:30PM-9:30PM

Drip… drip… drip… drip.. driaaawwwyawyawyawyawpppppthhhh.. Wait- what was that last one? Oh, don’t mind that. It was nothing. It definitely wasn’t brilliant or profound or groundbreaking or revolutionary or the idea that will change the course of all human events from this day forward. Or was it? Every day we think a million little thoughts and have a million ideas big and small- and we hold onto the big ones and forget the small ones; hold the ~important~ ones and trash the ~trash~… But maybe the small ones matter too? Maybe the tidbits and oddities and strange sounds and brain farts ARE the important ones. In this workshop, we’ll go dumpster diving inside our silly little skulls to find the nugs, the gems, the scraps, the sparks and the FUN that we’re too often taught to discard amidst the Serious Business of Artmaking.

ENROLL IN dumbest thought

WEEK FOUR

finding words in the wild
taught by emma casey
wednesday, august 21st, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Our lives are saturated with text – piles of junk mail, little free libraries, encyclopedic labels on packaged goods, etc – sometimes you just  have to get out the scissors and glue and make something new with ’em!  Playful and profound, the acts of cutting, erasing and rearranging destroy the implied sanctity of a printed work and break it down to just words on paper, while making physical a conversation between the origins of a piece and you.
Take the pressure off of coming up with all the words on your own and make space to find unexpected turns of phrase.
Participants are encouraged to bring texts they are interested in cutting up.  Materials will also be provided.  

Per our Covid Policy, all students and instructors are required to wear masks during class.