Creative Writing Workshop for Teens

Visual Literacy & Creative Writing Workshop

Ever wondered how graphic novelists capture readers' attention with so few words? Looking for a way to better use your creative writing to capture powerful images? This fun, engaging workshop uses the visual arts to improve writing skills and help you learn creative approaches to the writing process, including editing and revision. The workshop will include use of multi-media, analysis of artistic images, short texts for discussion, and one-on-one feedback. The workshop is a great way to prepare for summer writing and refresh your skills for the next year.

Tuesday June 14 to Friday June 17

10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Fee $195.00

Ages 13+

Register for workshop

Elizabeth Hawley

415 339-9336 ext. 102

ehawley@themarinschool.org

Instructor

Jonah Weaver

jweaver@themarinschool.org or

415 339-9336 ext. 110

The Marin School

100 Ebbtide Ave., #300

Sausalito, CA 94965

Festival of the Arts

Art, Photography, Film, and the Jazz Band
Thursday, May 26 6:00-8:00 PM

It's All in the Tim--ing 2 a resounding success!

This past Friday and Saturday evening, May 13th and 14th The Marin School Theatre project presented It's All in the Tim--ing 2: A series of short comic plays to packed houses of delighted audience members. The plays ranged from the Eric Coble Houdini-esque part narrator-part pantomime Ties That Bind to the Eugene lonesco absurdist gem Killing Game, performed with sixteen dramatic deaths and wonderfully grotesque cardboard puppet heads. Each play flowed smoothly into the next contributing its own deft comic touch through the confident and captivating interpretations of the actors.

The drama department would like to acknowledge all involved--from the tech booth to Alison Egan Murray's 9th grade fine arts classroom (puppets!) to the stage--and especially wishes the best to the graduating senior members of the troupe: Zohar Zimmerman, sound man-extraordinaire, and actors Nadav Benattar, Charlie Ebey, Derrick Ly, Matt Mills, and Mollie Wilson. Best of luck with your future dramatic adventures!

TMS Filmbridge Festival goes to Japantown - May 21, 2011

Please join us for the screening of eatrip, a wonderful new documentary from Japan that is best described as "Zen and the Art of Food".

Where: Viz Cinema (in Japantown) - 1746 Post St., San Francisco, CA

When: May 21, 2011 at 3:00 PM

Cost: $10.00 for movie ticket or $25.00 for DVD + Poster + Movie Ticket

eatrip is a contemporary Japanese food culture documentary and the directorial debut of food coordinator, creator, and teacher, Yuri Nomura. The film explores the interpersonal relationships that food nurtures. To eat is a universal experience and this documentary takes the audience on a journey throughout Japan looking at how life can be led richly through the daily ritual of eating. For more information and to view the film's trailer go to http://www.eatripfilm.com/.

RSVP to Kieran Ridge, TMS Filmbridge Program Director at krdige@themarinschool.org

TMS Athlete Qualifies for NCS in the 100 Meters Dash

TMS student, Erik Sandell, came in 5th place overall out of 60+ participants in eight heats of the 100 meters dash in the Bay Counties League championships. His performance qualifies him for the North Coast Section meet.

The Marin School student art and photography featured at The Marin High School Art Show

Example of work by TMS students that can be seen at The Marin High School Art Show

Eleven works of art and photography created by TMS student's are featured at The 20th Annual Marin High School Art Show, running from May 8 - May 28, 2011 at the Marin Art and Garden Center Gallery. We hope you can join us at the Artists Reception, May 15th from 2-4 pm.

For more information go to www.marinsocietyofartists.org or 415 454-9561.

The Marin Art and Garden Center Gallery is located at 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross, CA

The Marin School Theater Project presents "It's All in the Timing...2"

For more information:

Elizabeth Hawley

ehawley@themarinschool.org

415 339-9336, ext. 102

Three TMS Ninth-Grade Poets Win Prizes in County-Wide Poetry Contest

Pictured (left to right) TMS Poets; Francesca, Emma C, Emma D

Only 60 poems out of the 700 poetry submissions from Marin County public and private high school students made it through the four rounds of judging by a panel of local poets. Of those 60, 40 of the poems were selected for publication in the 2011 contest anthology, by Marin County Poet Laureate C.B. Follett, the final judge of the 22nd Annual Marin County High School Poetry Contest, an event sponsored by the Marin Poetry Center. Three TMS ninth-grade students--Emma Cormia, Emma Delaporte, and Francesca Glaspell--won awards. Their work was honored at a special ceremony at the Mill Valley Golf Club April 27th; it also has been published in this year's anthology.

(For more information on how to purchase the 2011 contest anthology email anthology@marinpoetrycenter.org or visit http://www.marinpoetrycenter.org/)

The Poems

What Do I Know of Love

by Francesca Glaspell

Like a good book, unabridged.

We were spilling over the sink,

Colors sailing past the lines,

Falling off the pages

And I can't hold someone's heart,

When I can't even hold my own,

And I don't know what to do

Because an object the size of my fist,

Has knocked me out.

Dead poets howling from books,

Telling me what to feel,

Not what to do.

I can't love you like the rest.

The feelings that nest within us,

Between the lungs, were growing stronger,

And I won't let them fly away.

We are maps being deciphered.

We are instruments and,

God is playing symphonies.

I find you native,

I know you foreign,

And I love you blind.

Like a moth burned by desire,

We didn't learn our lesson,

For once we burned for something more

Than our own.

(Inspired by "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII" by Pablo Neruda)

Love Poem

by Emma Delaporte

I love it when she bites my feet in bed,

I tell a friend of mine.

The old woman trudging along behind us thinks I'm a pervert.

I think she's a snoop.

My friend laughs. I love it when she licks my nose.

It's gross when her tongue gets up my nose though.

Agreed.

But I love it.

I'm sure to continue this conversation without letting the snoop know

That I'm talking about my cat.

I love the weird patch of white hair she has on her belly.

Yeah it's adorable.

God I love her.

Agreed.

I'd Know You Anywhere

by Emma Cormia

And sometimes just in passing

I'd swear I saw your face

In traffic late at night

A familiar silhouette drawn by the headlights

Of my car next to yours

But I know

It is just a trick of the rain

I saw you yesterday, in transit to the bank

Funny how city buses make people

Look like someone

Just like you