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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Middletown Art Center’s Restore Project features a writers’ workshop with Clive Matson this Saturday, March 23, from 1 to 5 p.m.
The workshop will be followed by the Restore: Spoken Word Gathering from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The reading is free and open to the public.
Adults and children ages 11 and up of all levels of experience are invited to come to one or monthly writers’ workshops offered until May.
The cost is $5. Preregistration is required at www.middletownartcenter.org/restore.
Participants of this writers’ workshop, and those who have participated in any of the Restore writing workshops, are invited to read at the spoken word gathering. To sign up as a reader, email
Clive Matson is a long-time Bay Area author, poet and facilitator. He uses a methodology based on his book “Let the Crazy Child Write!” to allow writers to delve into their unconscious and express that itch or urge that the creative unconscious wants to release.
Matson’s workshops focus on writing and sharing with positive feedback, providing a safe and encouraging environment for writers of all levels of experience.
As Matson expresses it, “We recognize three voices in the writer’s psyche: ‘Editor,’ ‘Writer’ and ‘Crazy Child’ – or creative unconscious. The Editor is the ‘should ‘ voice, as in: you should write everything perfectly the first time, you should make money with your writing, and, you should make no spelling errors. The Writer organizes your writing life, finds blank paper and pens that work, makes time to sit at the computer or go to a coffeehouse with a notebook. The Crazy Child is the urge to write, that itch in your psyche or body that wants to get out into the world. We’ll tell the Editor and Writer to take a walk and let your Crazy Child write whatever it wants.”
To learn more about Clive Matson, check out his Web site at http://matsonpoet.com/.
Restore Writers’ Workshop participants will have opportunity to contribute to MAC’s second chapbook of writings and images, and to participate in quarterly readings or exhibition. In addition to welcoming submissions for the chapbook, participants are invited to join the curatorial team. The first chapbook, “Resilience – a community reframes disaster through art,” is available for purchase at MAC or on the MAC Web site. The next Restore reading will be June 1, at the opening of the 2019 EcoArts Sculpture Walk.
The Restore Project provides Lake County residents with low-cost art classes and the opportunity to learn or refine skills in a variety of materials and techniques. Classes in sculpture, mixed media, printmaking or creative writing are offered most weekends on Saturday or Sunday through May 2019 from 1 to 5 p.m.
Upcoming classes include “Vertical Pathways” for Rabbit Hill, led by Emily Schiebel on Sunday March 31, and again on April 14. This collaborative project involves vertical sculptures in natural wood and concrete. Adults and children age 11 and up are encouraged to participate one or several times.
Saturday, April 6, features wood and linocut printmaking with John Jennings, and on Sunday, April 7, Laura Kennedy will lead a 3D mixed media workshop. Please visit www.middletownartcenter.org/restore, to learn more, stay up to date on class schedules, and preregister.
The Restore project was made possible with support from the California Arts Council, a state agency, with additional support from local organizations, businesses, and individuals. Visit www.ca.arts.gov to learn more about the California Arts Council’s important work in communities and schools throughout California.
The MAC Gallery is now showing “Living Color,” a vibrant collection of artwork. The gallery is open Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; or by appointment. Be sure to stop in and see the exhibit.
Middletown Art Center is located at 21456 State Highway 175 at the junction of Highway 29. Be a part of the growing arts scene in South Lake County by becoming a MAC member, by joining the folks at MAC this weekend or by attending one of the many arts and cultural events or classes offered at MAC. Visit www.middletownartcenter.org or “Like” Middletown Art Center on Facebook to stay up-to-date with what’s happening at MAC.
