WRITE CLUB
Creative writers, do you want more aliveness in your creative practice?Let us help you find it.For one, beautiful half-weekend this August, we’ll guide you through a bounty of fun, cutting-edge creative practices harvested from the work of heroes and designed so you can drop into the great unknown, listen, see what comes up, and, from there, write.Free yourself and your writing voice.You’ll come away feeling refreshed, electric with creative energy. You’ll find delicious new ways into writing, and strengthen your bonds with other creative buddies.Join us for WRITE CLUB."It was a great workshop. I was surprised what came out of my pen!" Festival of the Arts: Magic of Movement Workshop participant.
Auckland
16/17 August 2024
The Nix, 6 Nixon St, Grey Lynn
Fri: 6-9pm. Sat: 10am-5pmFee: $590
Max participants: 16
Our Heroes
We’re inspired by the work of Natalie Goldberg, Lynda Barry, Rick Rubin, Brenda Ueland, Ann Randolph, David Lynch, and Ralph W. Emerson, people who make art by listening carefully to what’s deep down and alive.
Amy Mansfield
Amy Mansfield is a writer, theatre-maker, producer and musician with a special interest in interactive work. Her experience in the arts includes working as Literature Adviser at Creative New Zealand, White Night Manager at Auckland Arts Festival, producer at Auckland Live, and now freelance as a writer and creative producer. She’s written three plays and one cabaret show since 2018, and is currently performing in a sold-out tour of her new work H.R. The Musical.
Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies has a couple of decades experience writing and directing for cinema. And later, for page. She’s studied creative practice all over the world and sees similarities with her therapy work— all about freeing the life energy and playing.
Terms and Conditions
- Full payment is required up front on registration.
- Registration payment is refundable, minus $100 admin fee, until three weeks before the workshop.
- After that time, it's non-refundable, but transferable to a subsequent workshop.
- If the workshop is cancelled, you will be refunded in full.