Fiction
Poetry
Dramatic Writing
Zine Making
Beginning Guitar
Beginning Music Theory/Composition
Creative Writing
There is no need to sign up in advance, classes are on going every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3 to 6 pm. Writing classes (as well as the Music Theory/Comp class) are Pay What you Want. Ideally we will offer these as workshops, but for now, we are offering them on a first come first serve basis. Instruction will be tailored to the individual needs of the student and all work created will be work shopped with the instructor and any other students of the same skill level. The first class will consist of sitting down with the instructor , doing a few exercises and coming up with a “game plan” for the student. Classes can last anywhere from 20 minutes for the busy student who comes in to get a plate full of exercises to take home, to three hours where the student comes in to work on more specific exercises and assignments and then goes through a critique. The level of involvement is left up to the individual .
To make things easy you can choose from
Idiots Guide To Writing—basic exercises, some assignments, no workshops ( recommended 1 class a week for 6 weeks)
Beat Off—heavy focus on stream of consciousness, automatic writing - lots of writing, some workshops ( recommended 2 classes a week for 3 weeks)
Black Mountain—writing exercises, homework and workshops, workshops, workshops ( recommended 3 classes a week for a month)
You like sub-genre’s, so do we, as long as they aren’t romance. If straight fiction and literature isn’t up you’re alley that’s no sweat. Our writing instructor is a playwright/fiction writer and sometimes absurdist poet who has a bag of tricks culled from the living beats, European theatre workshops and surrealist and situationist experiments from the 60’s onward.
Sub-Genre’s of Creative Writing Classes that can be included at the students request:
Fiction and Literature
Bizzaro Fiction
Absurdist Fiction
Sci-Fi
Sci-fi Western
Spy Fic
Goth-Lit
Satire
Noir
Steampunk
Feminist Lit
Speculative Fiction
Empowerment Lit
(No Romance, or Fantasy)
Poetry Classes
This is a more traditional set up —Students will go through the handbook of poetic forms, learning every form of poetry. Not to worry, its not as stodgy as it sounds. The handbook is relatively short and fun to go through and it’s emphasis in not on any particular style. Readings will be coupled with exercises designed to generate material according to the tone and style of the poetic form being studied.
Dramatic Writing
Though we will go over the history of theatre, (starting with Aristophanes) there will be forms of theatre not covered. Specifically Pastoral Plays, Musicals, Epiphany Plays, Classical Theatre, Naturalism.
Theatrical Forms covered at the Request of the Student include:
Realism
A-Theory (Brechtian Theatre)
Surrealist / Dada Theatre
Absurdism
Constructivist Theatre
Formalist Theatre
Psychological Realism
Theatre of Cruelty
Social & Political Theatre
Futurist Theatre
Puppet Theatre
Activist Theatre
Primitive Theatre
The Poor Theatre
The Theatre of the Oppressed
Technological Theatre
Technological Primitive Theatre
Noh Theatre
Harlem Renaissance
Radio Drama
ZINE making
Making a ZINE is not only fun, it is also easy and cheap. The basic zine costs less than a dollar to print, and can be reproduced innumerable times before it degrades. These have long been the torches of punkdom that have lit the dark tunnels of youth for several generations. Some of the older folks refer to larger zines of fiction as chapbooks, but if its black and white and stapled on the side it’s a &@* zine.
Classes will include the following
Layout and Design- How to Make a book
WTF?: Types of Zines
Collage Basics
Advanced Collage
Text: To Type or Scribble
How to Distro
Working with Others.
The Importance of Tabling.
For further information please contact mike@greencupbooks.org