Stories in the North has two fantastic writing workshops coming on July 16th.
Writing with Courage with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
10:00 a.m. to noon
Everyone has a story they are afraid to write. Memoir, personal essay, fiction rooted in truth, sometimes there are moments, incidents or whole subjects that are difficult to write. Bring yours to this workshop.
As the owner of Kegedonce Press, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm has worked with dozens of writers dealing with difficult subjects. She is also an
accomplished writer and performance poet. She taught creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in the late 90s and currently teaches in the Emerging Aboriginal Writers Program at the Banff Centre.
Screenwriting 101 with Shane Belcourt
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
What if you could turn your story into a script? Learn how in this interactive workshop led by multi-award-winning writer-director Shane Belcourt. >From idea to finished script, Shane will show you the tools to creatively critique and advance a script to completion and bring your great idea to the screen.
The workshops will be held in the Zion United Church basement in Thessalon.
Cost for a single workshop, either morning or afternoon, is $50.00
Register for both workshops for $75.00 and save!
Lunch is included for all workshop participants.
To register, call Elizabeth Creith, 705-842-3817. If you get the answering machine, please leave your name and phone number and say which workshop you would like.
Cheques can be made out to Stories in the North and mailed to
Elizabeth Creith
#4479 Highway 129
Thessalon, Ontario
P0R 1L0
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
kateri akiwenzie-damm is an Anishnaabe writer of mixed blood from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She has lived and worked at Neyaashiinigmiing, Cape Croker Reserve on the Saugeen Peninsula in southwestern Ontario since 1994.
When kateri is not writing she keeps busy with her consulting company DammWrite! Consulting and Communications, working with First Nations groups and projects. She is also the Managing Editor of Kegedonce Press, a small publishing company she set up in 1993 to publish and promote the work of Indigenous writers, artists and others in the publishing field.
In 1996 kateri taught creative writing courses to university students at the En’owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia. She is currently working on a spoken word CD and a collection of poetry. kateri is also working on publishing arrangements for an international collection of erotica by Indigenous writers and artists. She recently completed work as the editor of a collection of fiction by Indigenous writers from Canada, the United States, Australia and Aotearoa kateri’s other interests include tracking with the Ndakinna Wilderness Project, learning the Anishnaabe language, studying dreams, and traditional gathering and harvesting.
kateri’s writing has been published in various anthologies, journals, and magazines in Canada, the U.S., Aotearoa, Australia, and Germany. She has given readings at events and venues across Canada, the U.S., Australia, and Aotearoa and on national radio in Canada and Aotearoa. Readings have been broadcast nationally in Canada on WTN. Spoken word pieces of her poetry have been recorded and distributed on various audio-cassette compilations. Solo and collaborative pieces of her work have been shown in exhibits at art galleries in British Columbia. Among the journals in which her work has been published are trout, a south pacific journal of the arts (see below), The New Quarterly, Winter 2000, University of Waterloo, and Rampike Literary & Arts Magazine.
Shane Belcourt
Shane Belcourt is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and musician based in Toronto. His feature film, Tkaronto, has played many international film festivals, most recently winning the “Best Director” prize at the 2008 Dreamspeakers Film Festival and 2008 Talking Stick Film Festival, and has since been sold to a national distributor (Kinosmith Films) which released the film across Canada during the fall of 2008.
Shane’s two short films, The Squeeze Box and Pookums have been picked up and sold to national Canadian TV networks and are featured on Isuma.tv. Shane was also the recipient of the 2007 IFC Mentorship Award and one of 22 filmmakers chosen for the 2007 TIFF Talent Lab. More recently Shane co-wrote and directed Boxed In, a short film produced by the NFB that will be included in the Canadian Pavilion at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Shane was selected to Telefilm’s Feature Aboriginal Storytellers Program to further develop his next dramatic feature film, A Better Place. In January 2010, Shane was been selected to be the Filmmaker in Residence by the Winnipeg Film Group. Currently, Shane is working as the writer-director for a personal short animated documentary about growing up the son of a Métis rights leader, Red Car, Blue Hood along with writing his next micro-budget feature film, “Hard Feelings.”
Shane makes films under the banner of “Brokenslate Pictures” and/or “The Breath Films”, and makes documentaries and video projects for the web under “The Breath Films”. Shane teaches filmmaking workshops throughout the year with Aboriginal youth and youth at risk through various Aboriginal outreach programs, as well as teaching a directing class at LIFT twice a year in Toronto.
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