You keep putting off writing that novel, painting that picture of your mother, finishing your Oscar-winning screenplay, organizing all those family bits and pieces into a memoir or sculpting your father’s image—now’s the time to take your artist’s smock off the hook, or open your computer and get to work.
So how do you begin?
Jerry Sweeney, author of six novels, will try to help ignite latent creative urges when he conducts a workshop at Evergreen Cove in Easton on Saturday, September21 between 2-5pm. The title of the workshop is “How the Creative Begin to Create.” Learn how to gather your material and begin to work on your long put-off dream of capturing a piece of your life in a work of art.
“How do you begin to liberate and organize your creative impulses? How does interest in the arts surface in the imagination? These answers, like most, begin with an internal rearrangement of ideas and feelings,” Sweeney says.
Sweeney was bitten by the creative bug early and wrote his first novel at fourteen. Except for a few lost teenage years, he has followed the nation’s arts for six decades. He is a ballet and American Classical Music fan, loves the theater, tries to understand modern art and spends time reading a wide variety of literature.
Cost is $55 for Evergreen non-members ($45 for members). Register online at www.evergreeneaston.org. Click on September and go down the list to 9/21. For those interested in attending, highly individual ideas, soulful feelings and colorful dress are encouraged.
Sweeney is the president of the Eastern Shore Writers Association and a member of the 100-Mile Swim Club at the Y. His personal website iswww.GeraldFSweeney.com. He lives in Trappe.
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