Sea Country Activity Guide Winter 2017 | Page 12

PAGE 12 Enrichment Classes JOURNALING This popular, on-going, interactive workshop incorporates a variety of timed journaling activities, dynamic discussion, art, poetry, and prompts to help nurture your inner creativity, heighten selfawareness, and discover your true potential. Journaling is not about writing; it is a journey of self-discovery through eye-hand-brain exploration that helps you make decisions, solve problems, overcome difficulties, deal with life’s issues, and discover your strengths. Register early. Instructor: MaryAnn Easley (8 weeks) Thurs 9:30am - 11:30am Activity#9034 Cost: $69 Jan 19-Mar 9 STORY WRITING TECHNIQUES IN MEMOIR & FICTION Whether you’re writing memoir or fiction, it’s important to know how to structure a story develop good scenes, improve dialogue, and to show, not tell. Whether you are the hero to your own story or creating a fictional hero, these stories come from the heart and there are ways to make characters more memorable, techniques in developing setting and scene, and reasons for the narrative arc. Highly recommended for anyone interested in memoir or fiction, this class involves lecture, discussion, and optional critique of any work-in-progress. (8 weeks) Instructor: MaryAnn Easley WRITERS CIRCLE: CRITIQUE WORKSHOP Tues Whether you’re currently writing or simply thinking about writing, this is the place to discover what it’s all about. Here we analyze and respond to the writing of others, as well as, our own work-in-progress. We brainstorm plot, characterization, author voice, and find constructive and honest feedback. This workshop will heighten your awareness of the overall writing process. Instructor: MaryAnn Easley . OIL PAINTING STILL LIFE-SETUP, COMPOSITION AND PAINTING Thurs 1:00pm - 3:00pm Cost: $56 Activity# 9035 Jan 19-Mar 9 BRAIN FITNESS NEW The brain is not a muscle but it can function as one. When we exercise it, our brain gets stronger. To keep it strong, we need to keep challenging it regularly. Memory, word naming, reasoning, problem solving, concentration and logical sequencing will be practiced. Weds 1:00pm - 2:30pm $20 (6wks) Activity# 9128 Jan 25-Mar 1 9:30am - 11:30am Activity# 9033 Jan 17-Mar 7 Cost: $69 Learn the art of setting and composing the subjects for still life painting. Learn how to arrange the light direction, catch the atmosphere and express the combined harmony of the subjects in the painting. Students will receive a required supply list at the time of registration. Instructor: Ebrahim Amin Fri 1:00pm - 4:00pm Cost: $136/6wks Activity# 9030 Jan 6-Feb 24* *No class Jan 27, Feb 10 Register at Sea Country’s Front Desk. Need help passing your upcoming Written Drivers Test ? See Page 5 for all the details