Writing & Exploring with The Telling Room at The Desert of Maine: Ages 8 - 12 ($300)
Writing & Exploring with The Telling Room at The Desert of Maine: Ages 8 - 12 ($300)
Dates: 7/11/22 - 7/14/22 (note this camp is 4 days)
Times: 9:30am - 3:30pm
Format: In-person
Location: The Desert of Maine, 95 Desert Rd Freeport, ME
Ages: 8 - 12
Cost: $300
Description: Wait, there’s a desert in Maine? Well, kind of...The Desert of Maine is a weird and wonderful—and newly revitalized—tourist destination with a rich history. This summer, join The Telling Room for four days of writing and exploring these rolling sand dunes nestled among verdant forest. Our writers will dip into the ecology, geology, and history of this unique landmark while imagining themselves back through time and into far-off lands through fiction and poetry. Points of inspiration will include a hands-on fossil dig, meandering nature trails, a labyrinthine “gemstone village”, an authentic Model T Ford, and an historical reenactment in the restored 1800s barn. Led by Telling Room teacher and author Kathryn Williams and co-hosted by Mela Heestand of the Desert of Maine Center for Arts and Ecology.
About Unwritten Roads: Unwritten Roads is a mobile, multi-genre creative workshop for young adults in Maine. It was founded in 2015 by Katherine Nicoll and Laura Cowie, two Maine Teaching Artists specializing in creative writing and filmmaking. The program serves students grades K - 12 through in school residencies, afterschool programming, digital classes and summer and vacation camps throughout the State of Maine. Unwritten Roads gives youth a chance to express themselves creatively through film and become strong storytellers while given guided support in a safe space. Unwritten Roads offers programs at many diverse clubs and schools, but the mission is always the same: student-driven learning that encourages creative expression. Unwritten Roads is proud to be a mobile program. The program has a wide range of filmmaking and creative writing courses to keep kids’ minds active and expressive.
About The Telling Room: The Telling Room empowers youth through writing and shares their voices with the world. As a literary arts education organization focused on young writers ages 6 to 18, The Telling Room seeks to build confidence, strengthen literacy skills, and provide real audiences for our students, believing that the power of creative expression can change communities and prepare youth for success both now and in the future.