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Workshops at the Conference Center, October 2010
Groups marked with an * are open to the public.
Contact those groups if you are interested and
would like to participate in their program at Wildacres Retreat.
Charlotte Art League*
October 1 - 3
Established in 1965 to promote cultural enrichment and creative expression for emerging and professional artists. The art league brings a quality art teacher to Wildacres conference center for two days of great fun and instruction.
website: charlotteartleague.org
workshop details: charlotteartleague.pdf
phone: 704.376.2787
United Way Retirees Association
October 4 - 7
The United Way Retirees Association consists of some 500 members who have enjoyed careers in United Way organizations across the United States. Members and their spouses have been coming to Wildacres Retreat from as far as California each year since 1996 to renew friendships and gain knowledge from informed presenters on subjects of interest well beyond those of their former careers.
email: anne.hunt@uwa.unitedway.org
The powerful narrative
October 4 - 8
Writing Stories that Work with Carol and Bill Henderson
The Powerful Narrative is a fresh look at how basic story elements power both fiction and nonfiction. We’ll learn by writing–lots of writing–and you’ll leave with plenty of fresh ideas, both for your current projects and the new projects you’ll discover in our intensive, deep-diving workshop freewrites. We'll also look at the practical side of today's writing life: your "platform" as a writer, and how to use low-cost or free web tools to build it. Registration is open, but spaces are limited, so sign up soon.
website: carolhenderson.com/wildacres.html
email: cd.henderson@gmail.com
ASU Expressive Arts
October 7 - 10
Expressive Arts Therapy is the practice of using imagery, storytelling, dance, music, drama, poetry, movement, dreamwork, and visual arts together, in an integrated way, to foster human growth, development, and healing. It is about reclaiming our innate capacity as human beings for creative expression of our individual and collective human experience in artistic form.
The ASU Expressive Arts Collective is a core group of faculty from varied disciplines who teach together and write collaboratively about creative process, arts, and healing.
North American Mycological Association*
October 7 - 10
This will be the thirteenth year that the North American Mycological Association has held its regional foray at Wildacres Retreat. For mushroomers, a foray consists of collecting as many fungi as time allows in the local woods and forests. Each collection is then identified, if possible, and displayed throughout the foray. Records are maintained of every fungus that can be identified. One or two evening talks also enlighten attendees.
The Wildacres foray is more relaxed than the formal annual conference. It is limited to 40 NAMA members, many of whom come from all over the country and some who joined the organization just for the opportunity to come to Wildacres conference center. Each year a lead mycologist is invited to be responsible for the identification but there are always other professional and expert amateurs assisting. Dr. Brandon Matheny of the University of Tennessee is our lead mycologist this year. Glenda O'Neal handles the registration for this event. Allein Stanley is NAMA's foray Chair.
website: www.namyco.org
email: Allein Stanley
email: Glenda O'Neal
Life Writing Retreat*
October 8 - 10
Join nationally known author and writing workshop facilitator, Robin Edgar, for a weekend life-writing retreat open to any woman who is interested in life-writing, regardless of skill level or experience. We'll start with dinner on Friday evening, followed by a brief orientation session; three sessions on Saturday, and one after breakfast on Sunday.
The fee for a double-occupancy room for two nights and five meals and the workshop is $230 for Story Circle Network members and $255 for non-mambers. This is an interactive retreat where we can really talk and listen to each other's stories, so registration is limited to 12 participants. These spaces fill very quickly and the deadline is September 24. A waiting list will be available.
For more information, please contact Robin Edgar.
website: robinedgar.com
email: 2robinedgar@gmail.com
phone: 704.365.6538
Carolina Clay Connection*
October 8 - 10
Our annual clay sculpture workshop taught by Chase Winfield and Jinny Hargrave. This class is open to the public but priority will be given to returning students. For more information, please contact Jinny Hargrave.
email: carolinaclay@aol.com
Carolina captured*
October 8 - 10
Spend a beautiful October weekend in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina improving digital photography skills and expanding your "visual knowledge base". Our team of instructors can accommodate all levels of experience - regular Wildacres attendees that have an interest in photography are welcome! Now in its fifth year.
For more information, please contact Kelly Culpepper.
email: culpepperphoto@mindspring.com
website: carolinacaptured.com
phone: 704.650.6230
Fantastic Recycled Plastic*
October 8 - 10
Discover the exciting artistic potential of post-consumer recyclable plastics like liquid detergent jugs, yougurt containers and soda bottles. Presented by internationally-known recycled plastics artist David Edgar and author of Fantastic Recycled Plastic, this workshop is designed to introduce both novices and experienced artists to a new way of expressing their creativity using plastics.
Participants will need to bring their own cleaned plastic containers and a selection of basic hand tools to compete two or more artworks. This hands-on workshop is limited to 10 people. For more information about David Edgar and his artwork, visit his website.
email: dallenedgar@gmail.com
website: plastiquarium.com
phone: 704.651.7158
Sketching and painting workshop*
October 11 - 15
Mountain Color with Sandy Branam
At this workshop you will have the opportunity to learn and work in the colorful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. There will be early afternoon sessions with demos and daytime sketching in the early morning and late afternoon from many different locations including a nature trail and mountaintop vistas. The workshop will focus on a combination of water color washes topped by pen and inks of contrasting colors to create depth, texture, and sparkle! Whether interested in landscapes, objects of nature, people, buildings or portraits, you will find an exciting approach combining drawing and painting.
For more information, please contact Judy Mooney.
email: judymooney@bellsouth.net
phone: 912.443.9313
Creative Watermedia Technique
October 11-15
This watermedia class for painters of all levels teaches techniques for producing creative and exciting works of art. Learn to express yourself in an entirely new way. Some collage techniques with rice or other oriental papers will be included. Join us for a fun and creative adventure. For more information, please contact Billie Shelburn.
email: billiews@webworkz.com
phone: 678.910.1192
UNC-CH Department of Family Medicine
October 14 - 17
The University of North Carolina Statewide Department of Family Medicine, with residencies at Asheville, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Concord, Greensboro, Hendersonville, Monroe and Wilmington, has held an annual faculty retreat at Wildacres conference center since the late 1970s. This annual gathering of UNC Family Medicine faculty has produced amazing collaborative projects to benefit the health of North Carolinians. Our residencies have an outstanding track record for educational commitment and service to their communities and the state.
For more information, please visit our website.
website: med.unc.edu/fammed
Queens University
October 15 - 17
The McColl Leadership Challenge
Since 1982 students, faculty and staff from Queens University of Charlotte’s McColl School of Business have gathered for a weekend at Wildacres. Launched by Herman Blumenthal and Billy O. Wireman, the Blumenthal Conference focused on ethical issues in business. Building on that tradition, in 2006, the name and direction changed and the McColl Leadership Challenge now focuses on exploring leadership. In partnership with Vertical S. A., a leadership consulting firm, the outdoors is used as a means for teaching leadership and communication skills as well as teamwork and entrepreneurship skills.
Fall Gathering*
October 18 - 24
$280 for Six nights lodging and 17 meals
Enjoy the autumn beauty of Wildacres Retreat while working on your own project. Writers, artists, potters, musicians, jewelry makers, others with something to accomplish are all welcome.
We intend to have readings, entertainment, and sharing in the evenings, but no formal programming during the days and no instruction. We do ask that everyone attending have a project to work on and not to come for a vacation.
The session will begin on Monday, October 18 with registration beginning at 4:00 and will end after breakfast on Sunday, October 24. You may arrive earlier on Monday afternoon to begin work, but your sleeping rooms will not be available before registration time.
We will take participants in the order that we receive your payments. We will only take a certain number of quilters or potters because of space limitations at the conference center. Please plan to come with a roommate as we will likely fill all the available spaces. If there are single rooms available we will notify all those registered.
email: wildacres@wildacres.org
website: Fall Gathering
phone: 828.756.4573
Christianity in a postmodern world
October 18 - 22
Ours is a group that meets regularly to discuss books on topics we find relevant to today’s society. The purpose of our October retreat is to focus on Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change, which explores the case for the value of Christian morality in neutralizing such global problems as the ever-increasing gap between the wealthy and the impoverished, the frequency of corruption in positions of power, and the sense that everything is in a state of inevitable decline. We plan to use related texts, such as Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded, to round out the argument and explore avenues that McLaren may not reference in detail. If nothing else, the retreat promises to encourage open dialogue and fresh thinking.
This meeting is not open to the public.
email: frsias@gmail.com
Ringling School of Art and Design*
October 25 - 31
A unique opportunity to immerse your self in art-making under the guidance of professional artists and instructors. Open to beginner through experienced skill levels.
For more information, please contact Diane Zorn.
website: ringling.edu
phone: 941.955.8866
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