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Writing Your Mind: The Art of the Personal Essay
Bronxville Adult School @ 177 Pondfield Rd, Bronxville, NY
For most of us, generating ideas is easy—we've got opinions, stories to share, points of view—but crafting these beginning points into a powerful political or persuasive personal essay can feel like an overwhelming project. In this inspiring course, each student will work to bring an essay to fruition, from conception to first draft to completion, with careful attention to craft, clarity of ideas, and an emphasis on personal voice. This is an...
Bill Goldstein: Making Modernism: Virginia Woolf
Bill Goldstein: Making Modernism: Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster at Work E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) are two of the greatest and most widely read novels of the 20th Century. This August, we will explore the ways in which Forster and Woolf, lifelong friends but also wary rivals, embraced and helped remake modernism. Despite their many literary differences, Woolf thought of...
Master Class: Bill Goldstein
Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster-Aspects of Two Novels: Howards End and To the Lighthouse E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf were lifelong friends and literary rivals and reading their novels in tandem illuminates’ key aspects of their enduring achievements. In this class, we will read two masterpieces of 20th Century English literature: Forster’s Howards End, published in 1910, and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published in...
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TV Writing I: 10-Week Workshop
Gotham Writers Workshop @ 555 8th Ave, New York, NY
Learn the art of crafting addictive TV shows in this immersive workshop. From understanding the unique rules of each show to mastering dramatic-writing craft, you'll gain the skills needed to create captivating scripts that hook viewers. Whether you aspire to write comedy or drama, this course will set you on the path to success in the TV industry.
Playwriting Intensive I: Process
The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY
There is nothing like a deadline to get you writing and keep you going! Modeling on The Barrow Group aesthetic of using “tools,” this workshop includes in-class writing and out-of-class homework. As a supportive collective we’ll read and discuss our pages in class. Whether you are looking at finishing a first draft of a play or improving your writing process with scenes and one-acts, this workshop will provide you with positive support...
TV Comedy Writing - Level 1
Jacob Krueger Studio @ Virtual Classroom
This is the only class of its kind—run like a real writer’s room on a 30 minute TV comedy series, taught by a professional showrunner with over 25 years of industry experience—and featuring the work of a community of talented student writers. Working with your classmates, and under the showrunning mentorship of Jerry Perzigian, you’ll develop a premise, structure, and episode for a new TV Comedy Series. What You’ll Learn You’ll learn...
TV Drama Writing Weekend Intensive
Jacob Krueger Studio @ Virtual Classroom
Join writers from all over the world and your teacher, Pulitzer Prize nominated author, TV writer, screenwriter, professor, and former HBO executive, Stephen Molton, for this unique Television Drama Weekend Intensive Workshop. Get ready to dive deep into the structure of of the pilot and learn what makes a drama pilot sell. Collaborate live through our special online format or attend at our NYC studio. Limited space available. More than just a writing...
Television Comedy Writing Level 2
Jacob Krueger Studio @ Virtual Classroom
Now that you’ve completed our TV Comedy Level 1 Class it’s time to take your pilot to the next level, in this intermediate TV Writing workshop with Emmy Award Winner Jerry Perzigian. You’ll not only complete a half hour pilot or spec script for a tv comedy series, you’ll also collaborate on the development of your fellow students scripts for a different show each week. What You’ll Learn: Learn advanced structural techniques and how to...
Ten-Minute Playlab
The Barrow Group Acting School
Using exercises and assignments we’ll write, workshop and revise our ten-minute plays; by the end of our time together you’ll be ready to submit your work to contests. And, best of all, the Ten-Minute Playlab will culminate in a rehearsed reading of the plays, performed by Barrow Group actors.
Writing for Stand Up Comedy - Knock Out Punch Workshop
Jeff Lawrence/Laughing Buddha Comedy
In this five week joke writing workshop, our instructor will provide you with new techniques and exercises to unleash your best writing to date. With small class size and instructors who are professional working comedians, you'll learn both about developing your unique voice and what's expected in the marketplace. Includes: Five Stand Up Comedy Workshops 10 Open Mics (two per week, priority booking, no cover charge, drink minimum...
Writing for TV II
The Barrow Group Acting School @ Virtual Classroom
You’ve got your story. You’ve got your characters. You’ve got the world of your show. Now all you have to is WRITE IT. Writing for TV II will guide you through the process of writing a TV pilot. It will help you navigate the dauntingly specific challenges of the form (the classic guideline requires each pilot to hit 15 specific story beats) while never losing sight of what is thrilling and unique about it. Writing for TV II will be a combination...
5 Week Evening Screenwriting
International Film Institute of New York
In this seminar students will begin with an idea and during the first five sessions build a coherent treatment of the events and major emotional arcs of the film's three acts. Screenplays demand a specific structure. In the final five sessions students will begin and complete the first act and an outline of their feature length screenplay. Topics to be discussed will include: Cinematic Storytelling: The Foundation of Filmmaking Good Stories...
SMART Board Training for Business/Enterprise
NetCom Learning @ 519 8th Ave, New York, NY
You'll learn how to use SMART Meeting Pro to increase the effectiveness of your meetings. You'll receive customized training designed to provide you with the knowledge, information and skills specific to your use of SMART Meeting Pro. You'll become comfortable using SMART Meeting Pro with many opportunities for hands-on practice. You'll practice completing tasks that are relevant to your role, and learn how to incorporate SMART Meeting Pro into your...
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Bootcamp: Practical Machine Learning for Journalists
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 230 West 41st Street, New York, NY
BOOTCAMP: PRACTICAL MACHINE LEARNING FOR JOURNALISTS with John Keefe, the technical architect for bots and machine learning at Quartz Welcome to the next generation of data journalism: Recognize cases when machine learning can help in investigations, use existing and custom-made tools to tackle real-world reporting issues, and avoid bias and error in your work! Sifting through terabytes of documents or images might take years — unless...
TV Drama Writing
Join writers from all over the world and your teacher, Pulitzer Prize nominated author, TV writer, screenwriter, professor, and former HBO executive, Stephen Molton, for this unique Television Drama Weekend Intensive Workshop. Get ready to dive deep into the structure of of the pilot and learn what makes a drama pilot sell. Collaborate live through our special online format or attend at our NYC studio. Learn how to develop a series pilot that shows...
After School DJ Program
Scratch DJ Academy @ 32 Cooper Square , New York, NY
Looking for an after-school activity that your kids will love? Score some points by enrolling them in Scratch DJ Academy’s after-school program. Our after-school programming is designed for ages 10+. For younger DJs, we recommend private lessons. Sessions meet twice a week for 6 weeks. Students enrolled in our after-school program will learn: Music theory Basic and intermediate scratching techniques Beat-matchingSong structureTrick...
Blogging for Business
General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY
Blogging provides another platform not just to sell your product and/or create brand awareness but to establish yourself as an informative source in your field. This course covers the importance of a good title, captivating first and last sentences, and the necessity of proper grammar and interesting writing. The course includes practicing good writing skills and developing a knack for editing. Students will learn an overview of proper writing,...
Moby-Dick: Reading the White Whale
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
We now think of Moby-Dick as the canonical American novel. During Melville’s lifetime, however, his “wicked book,” as he called it in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a popular failure. The book sank into obscurity along with Melville’s reputation until 20th-century readers recovered the novel and refashioned it as a neglected masterpiece. Nominally the story of a monomaniacal sea captain’s pursuit of revenge...
Modern Poetry: Memory and Desire
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
“April is the cruelest month,” writes T.S. Eliot in the opening lines of The Waste Land (1922), “breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire.” What does modern poetry remember, and what does modern poetry want? This course, an introduction to the exhilarating, maddening, and strange experiments of twentieth-century poetry, explores how poets responded to the astonishing social, political, aesthetic, and technological...
Teen Playwriting (Ages 14-17)
The Barrow Group Acting School @ Virtual Classroom
Students will explore the most effective way to tell stories in dramatic form and will finish the class with an original short play. Through study of traditional dramatic structure and exercises, students will work from conception to complete draft, resulting in an original short play. Students will bring in material to each class to be read and discussed in a teacher-led session where we explore “what story do we hope to tell and is that...
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