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In today’s writing workshop, participants will be presented with several images of paintings by famous painters and will be asked to pick one and write a response regarding how they feel about the subject of the painting, their aesthetic appreciation of the techniques or images in the painting, or what kinds of emotions or memories come up for them.

Sharing your writing in Writing Workshop is not mandatory, but many people find that hearing your own voice reading about your thoughts out loud can change or deepen how you understand or feel about your ideas.  Also,  hearing someone else read their writing can be quite eye-opening.  Sometimes we learn something about a person we thought we knew everything about (but we didn't!).  Sometimes someone else has a different way to say something that you have felt, but you haven't been able to put it into words.  Sometimes  you might think of a concept in a way you have never considered, and this might stimulate your curiosity about how this affects your view of the world.

All are welcome – those who love writing and do it often, those for whom writing is a chore, and everyone else!