Summer 2003 Youth Programs

Creative Writing Day Camps & Workshops for Children & Teens

For details about SummerWrite 2003, including registration fees, see the SummerWrite 2003 General Information Page.

Opening Programs: June 25–27

Explore, Experience, Write Now!

• Ages: 8–12
• JY3-E2A0
• Instructor: Imecca Rodriguez [ bio ]
• All day, 9–4 p.m.
• $120 General Public; 10% discount for W&B Members
• Note: Additional supply and admissions fee: $5.

In this fun, active workshop, mixing visual arts and writing, we will take observation walks and visit the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Museum & Science Center and artists’ studios. We will open our eyes, ears and pores to the history, the life, the difficulty, the reason, the strangeness and the fun of the art in our community.

Back at Writers & Books, we’ll discuss, sort out observations and feelings, and write responses to our experiences in easy-going, creative ways. Each participant will take away a collection of writing from this week-long exploration.

Travel Writing: Destination Summer

• Ages: 13–18
• JY3-N5A0
• Instructor: Karen vanMeenen [ bio ]
• Mornings, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
• $75 General Public; 10% discount for W&B Members

Are you a traveler? Do you spend summers at camp, on the road with your family, at your grandparents’ cottage, or at home basking by the pool? Do you like to document your summer vacations by writing in a journal and taking photographs?

Join us as we get excited about our summer forays and plan the best ways to keep a written and visual record of our adventures. We will read travel writing from around the world and learn the easiest ways of writing about experiences in the moment, keeping things organized and eventually combining them into a book of your summer life experience.

In September, we will gather together again to see what we have come up with, and share the experiences of travel and writing. This course is appropriate for any travelers with an interest in writing and the tendency to observe the world around them, whether in Penfield or Peru.

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