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Placemaking: Creative Writing Workshop
September 11, 2021 @ 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
$150
About this event
Immersed in this tranquil environment, you will gather valuable knowledge and inspiration from expert botanists, writers, artists, somatic movement practitioners, and architects.
Together we will explore what Creative Placemaking means through exploring native flora and fauna, embodiment practices, architectural history, Indigenous storytelling, and putting pen to paper in our writing sessions.
Schedule
9:30 a.m. welcome tea and coffee
Placemaking introduction
Walking the land
Writing with native plants
Catered Local Organic Lunch provided by Cultivating Connections
Indigenous traditions
Creative writing and art
Reading, sharing, and close
In addition at 6:30 p.m. (Open to the public.) Potluck, presentation and Q&A “Frank Lloyd Wright in the Bitterroots” with Ayad Rahmani, Professor of Architecture at Washington State University / $20 suggested separate donation (60 min.)
Como Orchards is a 250 acre ranch in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, the ancestral home of the Salish people. As a young architect, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a community here for “noted savants” to connect to, and be inspired by, the land. A mix of cattle grazed prairie land, apple orchard, timber, and meadows, Como Orchards invites you to dangle your feet in a cool mountain stream and connect to the wild.
Local discount available and scholarships. Please write organizer with any questions. Thank you!