Events & Workshops

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If this workshop is sold out, please email swgevents@skwriter.com to be placed on the waitlist.

 

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This event will not be live-streamed or recorded.

Workshop registration refund policy:
 

Please be certain you will be able to attend before you register. Registered participants must promptly email the SWG staff person responsible for the event (Cat Abenstein, Program Manager, swgevents@skwriter.com) to cancel their registration. Otherwise, no refunds will be issued.

• A full refund is available if you cancel your registration one week prior to the start of the workshop (by 11:59 p.m. on November 12, 2024)
• A 50% refund is available if you cancel your registration less than one week and more than 48 hours before the workshop. (For cancellations between November 13 and 18 at 11:59 p.m. SK time)
• There is no refund for registrations cancelled within 48 hours of the workshop or no-shows. (Beginning at 12:00 a.m. on November 19)
• If you would like to donate your registration fee to the SWG’s accessibility fund so others can attend events like this in the future, please let us know in your email.

Accessibility Measures in this workshop

• Live auto-captions through Zoom
• Presenter self-descriptions
• Limited Zoom technical support is provided by SWG staff to assist participants while they’re in the Zoom meeting.

To help you prepare, here are the expectations for participants in this workshop:

• Camera optional workshop (participants are not expected to be on camera.)
• Participant discussion is not required but it is appreciated.
• Participants are not expected to share writing created during the workshop with the group if applicable, but it is appreciated.
• Participants are expected to participate in activities/prompts/exercises throughout the workshop. (In session only, no homework required.)
• Please note that this session is intensely interactive – participants will either be writing or recording themselves on their own devices for the duration of the session and will refer back to their generated material throughout. Please consider the ease with which participants can refer back to the generated material in class when choosing your medium.  

How to find your creative practice—and never lose it again with Lizzie Derksen

Rediscover the sources of your creativity, assemble the tools you forgot you had, and generate a guide to your own creative practice in this two-hour interactive workshop.

Lizzie Derksen has lost her mojo more than once. A full-time writer, filmmaker, and “creative professional”, she knows what it’s like to feel that your identity—and maybe even your income—is dependent on being able to turn inspiration into art. But what happens when you just can’t make the magic happen? In this workshop, Derksen will guide participants through an intensive exploration of their own intrinsic, idiosyncratic creative practices, bringing to light strategies and sources that have been overlooked, maligned, and forgotten. In the process, participants will draft personalized guides to their own creativity—guides they can refer back to next time it feels like that spark has gone out.

Workshop Facilitator

Lizzie Derksen is a writer and filmmaker from Treaty 6 Territory. Her work has been described as “a witty machete cutting through capitalist/post-modernist excess towards what is knowably real and human.” She is currently growing a small human, making a documentary on women's friendship for the CBC, and shopping her first novel.

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