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JustWrite 2023
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$415.00 CAD

SOLD OUT

Oct 13-15th, 2023

Writers Retreat for Ages 18+
An unforgettable experience for creative adults, spending time in the mountains with quality instructors and other talented peers discussing ideas and sharing their work.

JUSTWRITE 2023 is SOLD OUT!

Please try again next year :)


When

October 13-15th, 2023

Full Weekend


What

Workshop option

or

Retreat option 

Where

Black Cat Guest Ranch

near Hinton, AB

Who

Guest instructors:

Angela Hall

Carolyn Pogue


Other Guests:

TBA


Our Super Supers:
Tania Gigliotti
Mason Repka


YouthWrite Coordinator:
Gail Sidonie Sobat



JustWrite In the Mountains is open for Registration!!!

  • Ages 18+
  • October, 13th, 14th, 15th 2023
    • Workshop weekend with Angela Hall and Carolyn Pogue OR your self-directed writing retreat
    • LIMITED ENROLLMENT: Black Cat Guest Ranch (near Hinton, AB) has 11 rooms and can accommodate 22 people MAX (double occupancy).
    • Once you have registered, you will be sent an email asking for a writing sample. These samples are a necessary part of your registration process. 

JustWrite Rates:


Note: If you come alone, and select DOUBLE, you will be paired with someone else signed up for JustWrite, AHS restrictions permitting. If you already know who you are sharing a DOUBLE occupancy room with, please indicate their name when you are registering so we know whom to pair you with.

1. Workshop Option is $610 per person for SINGLE - SOLD OUT

2. Workshop Option is $505 per person for DOUBLE. - SOLD OUT

3. Retreat Option is $520 per person for SINGLE - SOLD OUT

4. Retreat Option is $415 per person for DOUBLE. - SOLD OUT


If you choose to pay via PayPal you will be charged a 5% service fee.

Fees include:

  • A weekend of instruction and writing activities led by highly qualified instructional and supervisory staff (or time by yourself, simply to write!)
  • Friday JustWine&Cheese
  • Saturay breakfast, lunch, supper, snacks
  • Sunday breakfast, lunch
  • Guest speakers and panel discussions (more details TBA)

Please note: JustWrite may fall under professional development or your wellness benefits. Installment payment options are available - email info@youthwrite.com for further details.

An Important Note on Covid-19


YouthWrite Society Canada continues to closely monitor the COVID-19 situation. We are committed to the well-being of our participants and employees. As such, we are adhering to the guidelines and recommendations of Alberta Health Services and the Public Health Agency of Canada.


More information to come on the protocols that will be in place for JustWrite in the Mountains 2023!



Please note

All fees include a $100 non-refundable fee. No refunds will be made if registration is cancelled after October 1, 2023. A full refund will be made in the event an applicant is not accepted into the program. YouthWrite Society Canada reserves the right to cancel courses and restrict enrollment. Courses, instructors and supervisors may be subject to change.


A full refund will be possible in the event an applicant is not accepted into the program or if COVID restrictions require that we cancel or reconfigure JustWrite. YouthWrite Society Canada reserves the right to cancel courses and restrict enrollment. Courses, instructors and supervisors may be subject to change.

Our Wonderful Guest Instructors:

 Angela Hall


Bio

Angela Hall, is a Métis Albertan, elementary school teacher, mother, poet, and artist. She has completed graduate courses in Grief and Loss, Art Therapy, Drama Therapy, Expressive Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, and Trauma Recovery. Angela specializes in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education and has worked for nearly 30 years as a teacher, facilitator, consultant, liaison, manager with Alberta Education and Truth and Reconciliation Lead Teacher. Angela has been awarded the ATA, 2009, Outstanding Aboriginal Educator Award. In 2019, she received an honorable mention for the Kemosa Scholarship (First Nations, Metis and Inuit Mothers Who Write). Most recently, Angela has developed and facilitated Trauma Informed and Indigenous Ways of Knowing Art lessons for K-12 students, teachers’ conventions, colleges, and educational institutes. She is an artist with the Bearclaw Art Gallery and won the 38th Annual Peace Hills Trust Art contest. Her artwork is currently touring Alberta with the Alberta Foundation of the Arts TREX exhibition, Turtle Island.


Course

Rites of Passage Art Mandala - Be guided to create an art mandala that supports the process of self-actualization (knowing thyself). You’ll get to understand the significance of mandalas, patterns in nature, and Medicine Wheel teachings. Participate in transformational visualization and journaling with guided questions to help reveal your barriers. Create writing and artwork that facilitate the experience of wholeness by integrating the conscious and unconscious. Then share your reflections through an Indigenous Talking Circle.


 

 Carolyn Pogue


Bio

Carolyn Pogue, is a Calgary author, presenter, videographer, folk artist and crone. She teaches at The Alexandra Writers’ Centre, YouthWrite and other spectacular spaces that celebrate creativity. She originated the youtube video, Camping with Old People and a national campaign using rag dolls to spotlight child poverty. She is currently co-writing a play for community theatre, Patriarchy on Trial. www.carolynpogue.ca


Course

Writing the Garden: Seeding the Future We Want - In this three-part workshop we will write ourselves free to imagine the future we want for ourselves, for Canada and for Earth. Holding our harvest vision, we’ll plough the soil, spread the manure and look the future in the eye.


Our Amazing JustWrite Team:

Your 2023 JustWrite Supers and Director/Coordinator

Tania Gigliotti


Tania is a powerhouse administrator, amazing client services manager, excel wizard, and an adorable little hobbit. She spends her spare time researching youth engagement in living history museums for the Young People are the Future project, as well as reading a lot of good books and eating a lot of good food. She's also Gail's favorite. 




Mason Repka

Mason is a YouthWrite Office Bee, working with Gail and Tania behind the scenes to make sure YouthWrite events go swimmingly. Mason loves to teach writing through Roleplay, whether it be Live Action or Table Top. He is also a Registered Massage Therapist, owns and operates Dark Ascension LARP, and is, of course, Gail's favorite. 




YouthWrite Director- Coordinator

Gail Sidonie Sobat


is a multi-award-winning teacher and author, with twelve books for children, teens and adults, and a number of educational and academic articles. A Global News Woman of Vision and an Arts and Culture Citation Award recipient, she is the YouthWrite creator/ coordinator, an international presenter, an instructor in the professional writing program at MacEwan University and in the Faculty of Education at U of A. Gail was The Writers’ Union of Canada Regional Representative for Alberta, NWT and Nunavut, and writer in residence with the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries. 


She has moved forty times in her life from Badlands to Siksika Nation Reserve to hideous suburbs to Istanbul to the Sunshine Coast to her writer’s garret in a century-old temperamental house. She adores all of her Supers & Coordinators equally, and loves YouthWrite like a madwoman!


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