GLIMPSING THE PRESENT
Ages 16-29
Summer 2023, Online
This workshop will encourage fellows to focus on the here and now. Through writing and moving image exercises, both in-class and between meetings, they’ll develop a practice of noticing, removing their earbuds and opening all five senses to the immediate world around them, experiencing it in all its detail. They’ll carry pocket journals for recording in the moment: brief notes on people, places, the weather, snippets of passing music and conversation. And they’ll look not at but through their phones to capture video of wherever they are in an ordinary day: in the kitchen, on the street, at the supermarket. They’ll share their impressions and discoveries in group discussion, considering how to create immersive art that evokes rather than describes experience. Ultimately they’ll assemble and shape their glimpses of the evolving present into short video and written works that celebrate awareness, engagement, the artistry of paying attention, of being in the world as it is. Their work will be shared on the program website and through a public exhibition. Limited to 10 student fellows.
Lucy Bucknell teaches film studies and screenwriting in the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is the founding director of Writing Outside the Fence, a writing program for the formerly incarcerated and their extended community.
Emmet Sheehan, a Baltimore City native, was part of the pilot program that launched the film department at Baltimore School for the Arts, and also trained at North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Intensive.
