Event for fans living in New York Tri-State area.
Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative-fiction reading series held on the third Wednesday of every month originally at the KGB Bar in New York City, and now on YouTube, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel.
This month’s speakers: Lauren Beukes & Usman T. Malik
SOURCE: https://www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
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All genres welcome — fiction, non-fiction, poetry, music, comedy, storytelling, other. Open Mic will give you an opportunity to share your talents in a nurturing, comfortable space with some great people. Bill Buschel is your host.
SOURCE: https://www.writerscenter.org
This is a course designed for writers looking to create screenplays, stage plays, and teleplays for one-hour televisions shows. Paramount in this effort, we will focus on an approach which is necessary in all dramatic writing — the importance of conflict. How we define, pinpoint and create interesting, unusual characters. How structure is the backbone of a dramatic piece, and how narrative drive and the understanding of the elements of the construction of a story are critical to any piece of dramatic writing. The course will include insights and address the specific individual demands inherent in the writing of screenplays, stage plays and one-hour television shows.
SOURCE: https://www.writerscenter.org
For this contest you are challenged to write a Tanka poem. Tanka is a form of poetry that often follows a specific syllable count.
line 1 – 5 syllables
line 2 – 7 syllables
line 3 – 5 syllables
line 4 – 7 syllables
line 5 – 7 syllablesSo it contains five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables. (5, 7, 5, 7, 7). This format is not required but a helpful guide. To approximate the Japanese model, some poets use approximately 20-22 syllables and a short-long-short-long-long structure or even just a free form structure using five lines.
An Example:
Peaceful solitude (5)
intrinsic to our spirit (7)
lost in pensive thought (5)
standing on the edge of time (7)
the road to nowhere special. (7)
– by Cheri L. AhnerWrite about anything using this format. A tanka poem usually only has one stanza.
The winner takes away a $100 cash prize.
SOURCE: https://www.fanstory.com
A 5-7-5 follows the structure of a Haiku but without any limitation to the topic. While a Senryu, is primarily concerned with human nature. A Haiku, primarily concerned with physical nature. A 5-7-5 poem is a free form with the only limitation being the syllable count.
So have fun with the 5-7-5 poetry type. But it must follow the proper syllable count. A 5-7-5 poem has three lines. The first line has 5 syllables. The second line has 7 syllables. The third line has 5 syllables again.
Example
Don’t eat yellow snow (5 syllables)
It’s not healthy as you know (7 syllables)
Besides, it tastes bad! (5 syllables)
– written by starkat
The winner takes away a $100 cash prize.
SOURCE: https://www.fanstory.com
Write an essence poem. This is a poem of two lines with six syllables per line, each containing an internal rhyme and an ending rhyme.
Example
Mysterious night dream
Elicits a fright screamThe winner takes away a $100 cash prize.
SOURCE: https://www.fanstory.com
Discover the history and significance of a traditional tea ceremony, Chadō (The Way of Tea). This intimate tea ceremony, which will take place in-person at the Museum, will involve a live tea demonstration and lecture by Marybeth Welch, an expert on the Urasenke Tea Ceremony, along with her associate Aya Takamoto, who comes from a family of tea practitioners dating back to the 15th century. Limited capacity; attendees will be socially distanced.
SOURCE: http://www.katonahmuseum.org
Location: Katonah Museum of Art, 134 Jay Street, Route 22, Katonah, NY
Landscapes in Watercolor is a 6 week class that explores techniques for creating bold, passionate landscape paintings in watercolor. The instructor will provide demonstrations and best practices for painting in watercolor.
SOURCE: https://www.jcartschool.com
Location: Jersey City Art School, 135 Erie Street, Jersey City, NJ
A series of weekly classes designed to train students to master foundation skills. The exercises include rendering the value scale, gradients, using a viewfinder, sight-sizing, composition, various painting techniques (under-painting, glazing and alla prima), and still-life.
SOURCE: https://www.jcartschool.com
Location: Jersey City Art School, 135 Erie Street, Jersey City, NJ
In this workshop, students learn different groups of onomatopoeia such as giongo and gitaigo, covering many topics including animal sounds, weather, health, action, and of course, food!
SOURCE: https://www.japansociety.org
In these workshops, you will be guided through the fundamental concepts of Kanji structure, bushu (radicals), on & kun readings, and more.
SOURCE: https://www.japansociety.org
These mini-workshops offer the beginning student of Japanese the opportunity to quickly and efficiently master the reading of the two Japanese syllabaries, hiragana and katakana.
SOURCE: https://www.japansociety.org
Have you always wanted to learn Japanese, but were unsure where to start? Come for a Japanese Trial Lesson for Beginners, taught by Japanese instructors at the Language Center. These lessons are meant for persons with no previous knowledge of Japanese.
SOURCE: https://www.japansociety.org
Japan Society Film screens a diverse selection of classic and contemporary Japanese cinema throughout the year — including retrospectives of seminal directors, thematic series, and special screenings of international, U.S. and NY premieres — and organizes JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film, the largest festival of its kind in North America.
SOURCE: https://www.japansociety.org
In this event, you’ll join a live streaming tour and visit a real brewery located in Japan!
Also, you’ll actually try their sake from the Japanese brewery while enjoying the tour.
The sake will be delivered directly to you!!
SOURCE: https://resobox.com
For over 30 years the S F A B C has promoted an interest and enjoyment of science fiction, fantasy, horror and related areas with a variety of events and activities.
Guest: EVA SCALZO, Literary Agent
SOURCE: https://sites.google.com/site/sfassnofbergencounty/home
Chattacon has gone Virtual, and that means you can still enjoy all of the programming you look forward to every year… with just a bit more of a technical flare. But at it’s heart, Chattacon remains the same gathering that you have always known and loved.
SOURCE: https://chattacon.org
Games Done Quick is a series of charity video game marathons. These events feature high-level gameplay by speedrunners raising money for charity.
SOURCE: https://gamesdonequick.com/
n this unique and professional workshop, you will learn or improve your puppeteering skills from the extremely talented and experienced instructor
SOURCE: https://artshow.com
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Taught by Shaun Manning, who has written comic book stories for series including Star Wars Adventures, Garbage Pail Kids, Dark Horse Presents, and more. He is the writer and co-creator of three original graphic novels, most recently the historical fiction epic Macbeth: The Red King… This 8-week course will address the fundamentals of writing for comics, covering aspects unique to the medium such as the importance of page turns, the advantages and pitfalls of captions, working with an artist, and more.
SOURCE: https://writingworkshops.com
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