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Workshops and other teaching
Jul. 5th, 2010 04:50 pmIt's ages since I've updated where I'll be and what I'll be doing, and this next 4 months has some particularly cool stuff happening. How it can be cool when I'm the one teaching, is because the subject matter is simply amazing. Also the locations. I may not have a great deal of teaching this next little while, but the awesomeness will make up for the lack of quantity.
First up is the ACT Library Service. They're running a program for National Science Week. I'm running three workshops (2 for adults, one for teens - 14, 17 and 21 August) tentatively entitled "Right Place Write Time." Participants will develop science fiction/time travel stories using the materials at their local library. It's going to be so much fun. We get to wander the shelves with a librarian and talk about which Dewey number hides which handy bit of info and then take our plunder to the workshop area then, as the library promo material says "you will use your discoveries to start building your own world and writing your own trans-timespace adventures."
Also in August are my usual Wednesday classes for the Mental Health program. Ask me about them, if you think you might be interested in joining and can get a referral from a doctor or a psychiatrist or other practitioner.
And again in August (August is my teaching month) is a course-by-request. Over the years students have consistently demanded I give them the hot gossip of history. A few months ago, some of these students convinced me I should run a course specifically devoted to vile histories. The sort of people you might love to read about, but hate to meet. I don't know how I let myself get talked into this one. (The details are in this brochure along with courses by far more estimable people and on far more salutary subjects.) It starts 3 August, so I'll know if it's going ahead (if it has the numbers) around 25 July.
In September I'll be at AussieCon and doing the Jewish New Year thing, so the only teaching on my calendar at this stage is in Melbourne. I'm giving a guest lecture to the guides at the Jewish Museum. It's not open to the public, but if you have a strong interest in the history of Jewish cookbooks and what sort of food Jews ate for Rosh Hashanah in Medieval France, ask nicely and see if they'll let you in. Or go in the next day as a visitor and get the guides to teach you from their new store of knowledge.
On 3 October I'm doing a one day workshop at the Sydney Writers' Centre on worldbuilding using history (which is a surprisingly cheating way of worldbuilding ie way easier than thinking things out from scratch). It's going to include a whole lot of good stuff - I'm already bringing my ideas together for it. This is one I've been excited about since it was first proposed. This is the one that I was tossing up between pirates and crusaders as part of the background. I might make a long weekend of it and enjoy Sydney. Or do library work. Or both.
From 12 October I bring an evening version of the workshop to Canberra (check the ANU guide for details). Instead of taking one day, it will take 6 Tuesday evenings.
And that's it right now. More things might spring up, in which case I'll do another burst of information.
Canberra and Sydney people: book early if you can. Courses get cancelled when there aren't enough people. A whole bunch of would-be students of my historical food course are upset that there won't be another food offering (token joke there, for those who look sombre) for at least a year, but that's because the last was cancelled because they all left it till the last minute. The admin people can't read minds, however extraordinary they are.
First up is the ACT Library Service. They're running a program for National Science Week. I'm running three workshops (2 for adults, one for teens - 14, 17 and 21 August) tentatively entitled "Right Place Write Time." Participants will develop science fiction/time travel stories using the materials at their local library. It's going to be so much fun. We get to wander the shelves with a librarian and talk about which Dewey number hides which handy bit of info and then take our plunder to the workshop area then, as the library promo material says "you will use your discoveries to start building your own world and writing your own trans-timespace adventures."
Also in August are my usual Wednesday classes for the Mental Health program. Ask me about them, if you think you might be interested in joining and can get a referral from a doctor or a psychiatrist or other practitioner.
And again in August (August is my teaching month) is a course-by-request. Over the years students have consistently demanded I give them the hot gossip of history. A few months ago, some of these students convinced me I should run a course specifically devoted to vile histories. The sort of people you might love to read about, but hate to meet. I don't know how I let myself get talked into this one. (The details are in this brochure along with courses by far more estimable people and on far more salutary subjects.) It starts 3 August, so I'll know if it's going ahead (if it has the numbers) around 25 July.
In September I'll be at AussieCon and doing the Jewish New Year thing, so the only teaching on my calendar at this stage is in Melbourne. I'm giving a guest lecture to the guides at the Jewish Museum. It's not open to the public, but if you have a strong interest in the history of Jewish cookbooks and what sort of food Jews ate for Rosh Hashanah in Medieval France, ask nicely and see if they'll let you in. Or go in the next day as a visitor and get the guides to teach you from their new store of knowledge.
On 3 October I'm doing a one day workshop at the Sydney Writers' Centre on worldbuilding using history (which is a surprisingly cheating way of worldbuilding ie way easier than thinking things out from scratch). It's going to include a whole lot of good stuff - I'm already bringing my ideas together for it. This is one I've been excited about since it was first proposed. This is the one that I was tossing up between pirates and crusaders as part of the background. I might make a long weekend of it and enjoy Sydney. Or do library work. Or both.
From 12 October I bring an evening version of the workshop to Canberra (check the ANU guide for details). Instead of taking one day, it will take 6 Tuesday evenings.
And that's it right now. More things might spring up, in which case I'll do another burst of information.
Canberra and Sydney people: book early if you can. Courses get cancelled when there aren't enough people. A whole bunch of would-be students of my historical food course are upset that there won't be another food offering (token joke there, for those who look sombre) for at least a year, but that's because the last was cancelled because they all left it till the last minute. The admin people can't read minds, however extraordinary they are.