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Healing Haiku Workshop

DC, United States

This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. In order to participate and receive the Zoom link, you must register here or by emailing carla@smithcenter.org with Rick Black, an international prize-winning haiku poet Take some of your most cherished and beloved memories -- and turn them into haiku or short poems to share with others. When … Continue reading Healing Haiku Workshop

Listen Like a Poet

This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. In order to participate and receive the Zoom link, you must register here or by emailing carla@smithcenter.org with Ravenna Raven If you’re a good listener, people will trust you with their stories. The Good Listening Project is a nonprofit that promotes cultures of listening to support healing. In … Continue reading Listen Like a Poet

Winter Haiku and Short Nature Poems: Moving Toward the Light

This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. In order to participate and receive the Zoom link, you must register here or by emailing carla@smithcenter.org with Kathleen O'Toole This interactive session with its focus on noticing the small details in the winter world around us, may offer comfort and inspiration as the dark days of deepest … Continue reading Winter Haiku and Short Nature Poems: Moving Toward the Light

Listen Like a Poet

This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. In order to participate and receive the Zoom link, you must register here or by emailing carla@smithcenter.org with Ravenna Raven If you’re a good listener, people will trust you with their stories. The Good Listening Project is a nonprofit that promotes cultures of listening to support healing. In … Continue reading Listen Like a Poet

Come Write with Us: Embracing Light and All That’s Blooming with Poetry

This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. In order to participate and receive the Zoom link, you must register here or by emailing carla@smithcenter.org with Kathleen O'Toole There’s a reason that the ancient Celts celebrated Bealtaine (Beltane: May 1, or Mayday) which falls halfway between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. For us in the … Continue reading Come Write with Us: Embracing Light and All That’s Blooming with Poetry

Abstract Art Inspired by Mary Oliver’s Poetry

This program is being offered virtually through Zoom. In order to participate and receive the Zoom link, you must register here or by emailing carla@smithcenter.org with Martina Sestakova Enjoy a workshop of poetry reading and abstract painting with art educator Martina Sestakova. We will refer to Mary Oliver’s poems for inspiration for intuitive explorations in watercolors. … Continue reading Abstract Art Inspired by Mary Oliver’s Poetry

Seeing with the Heart

We will select an image of our own and write a 5-line cinquain poem. The poem is meant to "express the heart of an experience in just a few words."

Pen Pals

Writing doesn't have to be a lonely pursuit. Grab your cup of tea, pen and notebook and join fellow writers for a meeting of Pen Pals.

Writing Outside the Lines

With our stories as a springboard, we will independently explore transforming our stories into written work in a variety of genres.

CANCELED – Writing Outside the Lines

With our stories as a springboard, we will independently explore transforming our stories into written work in a variety of genres.

Writing Outside the Lines

With our stories as a springboard, we will independently explore transforming our stories into written work in a variety of genres.

CANCELLED – Writing Outside the Lines

With our stories as a springboard, we will independently explore transforming our stories into written work in a variety of genres.

Writing Outside the Lines

With our stories as a springboard, we will independently explore transforming our stories into written work in a variety of genres.

Slow Looking and Mindful Poetry

In this workshop, you will be guided in a slow looking activity around a single work of art from the Joan Hisaoka gallery as a technique for accessing inner wisdom and sparking creative flow.

Slow Looking and Mindful Poetry

Practice mindfulness in a new way and open to being - with yourself, with each other, with the present moment.

Listen Like a Poet

Learn how to start a conversation with someone you don’t know and create a poem for them using their words.