Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
Meet the Writer with Leslie Gray Streeter – January 21
ArtSmart Writer’s Academy – Zoom Seminars
Kickstart Your Writing Ability – January 7
Writers’ Launch – Starting January 11
Evolving Technique – Starting February 22
Showcase the Writing – March 26
- WHAT: Meet the Writer
- Discover a behind-the-scenes perspective of BLACK WIDOW as told firsthand by Leslie Gray Streeter. Whether you read the book ahead of time or after you’ve “met” the writer, you’ll get an insider’s look into the writer’s vision, the story behind the story and much more. Leslie Gray Streeter will be interviewed by ESPN’s Josh Cohen and questions will be taken from the audience. With the purchase of a ticket, a confirmation email will be sent with a link and passcode Once you have purchased your ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode that will enable you to join the zoom webinar.
- WHEN: Thursday, January 21, 2020 at 8 p.m. via Zoom
- ADMISSION: $15
- CONTACT: For more information about the Kravis Center or to sign-up for the Meet the Writer event please visit www.kravis.org.
- WHAT and WHEN: ArtSmart Writer’s Academy
- Kickstart Your Writing Ability
- An experience for the curious and adventurous, KICKSTART is for those about to take the exciting leap into writing. Learn how to release the writer within and how to unlock your very own muse with Julie Gilbert.
- WHEN: Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom
- ADMISSION: $25
- Writers’ Launch
- Kickstart Your Writing Ability
- WRITERS’ LAUNCH is just that—a pad from which to raise written expression hosted by Julie Gilbert. Within every person there are unspoken thoughts and memories, there is buried treasure. This course is designed to alchemize this unexpressed bounty into a discipline of form, content, technique and style, resulting in a story. The focus and goal of this is toward a fictional story.
- WHEN: Starting Monday, January 11, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom
- Monday, January 18, 2021
- Monday, January 25, 2021
- Monday, February 1, 2021
- Monday, February 8, 2021
- Monday, February 15, 2021
- ADMISSION: $325
- WHEN: Starting Monday, January 11, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom
- Evolving Technique
- This course, hosted by Julie Gilbert is for all writers who are honing their craft, working toward a substantial project, starting a first draft or beginning a rewrite. This is a diagnostic, ongoing study of the writer in relationship to self as well as to the critique of others. We will be working on developing exercises.
- WHEN: Starting Monday, February 22, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom
- Monday, March 1, 2021
- Monday, March 8, 2021
- Monday, March 15, 2021
- Monday, March 22, 2021
- Monday, March 29, 2021
- ADMISSION: $325
- Showcase the Writing
- SHOWCASE THE WRITING, hosted by Julie Gilbert and open to the public, showcases talented new writers. Selected members of The Writers’ Academy will present all genres of work.
- WHEN: Friday, March 26, 2020 at 7 p.m. via Zoom
- ADMISSION: $10
- WHO: Julie Gilbert was born into a literary and theatrical family. Her mother was actress Janet Fox, and her great aunt was the writer, Edna Ferber. Julie is a novelist, biographer, playwright and teacher. She was nominated for a National Book Critic’s Circle Award for “Ferber: A Biography of Edna Ferber and Her Circle” (Doubleday) and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for Opposite Attraction: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard (Pantheon). She has taught Fiction Writing and Playwriting at New York University and at Florida Atlantic University and runs The Writers’ Academy at the Kravis Center of the Performing Arts.
- WHY: The Kravis Center has created virtual experiences including live performances, lectures, book clubs, educational programs and classes for patrons to enjoy until the Kravis Center opens its doors to the public again.
- CONTACT: For more information about the Kravis Center or to sign-up for any of the ArtSmart Writer’s Academy events please visit www.kravis.org.