This two-week program builds English proficiency through creative work and collaborative projects. Students strengthen their language skills in small classes with individualized attention, opportunities for self-expression, and general connection through the arts. Mornings focus on English in use; afternoons invite students to apply their knowledge through visual and performing arts, discussion and reflection.
*This is a Teen program and will follow those guidelines outlined in our FAQ section.
Instructor: Nīa MacKnight (Anishinaabe/Lakhóta/Scottish) This class will explore visual narrative techniques through alternative, experimental photography processes while drawing inspiration from the local ecologies of Idyllwild.
Instructor: James Johnson (Tlingit) This workshop will introduce you to and get you started on your journey to make a Northwest Coast inspired rowing paddle utilizing methods, techniques and philosophies rooted in Tlingit culture. This intensive learning experience will highlight wood carving techniques and Northwest Coast line-drawing traditions.
Instructors: Tom Laichas & Lynne Thompson In this week-long workshop, Tom Laichas will teach the first half and Lynne Thompson will teach the second half! Laichas’s 'Poetry and the Prince' will explore how poetry responds to corruption and power by examining diverse political forms from satire to lament, drawing on global poetic traditions. Thompson’s 'Wordplay and Other Roads to Verse-City' will then focus on craft and play, using a variety of forms including prose poems, glosas, centos, and forms of her own creation to discover new approaches to writing.
