Events + Reading Group & Book Club
Our Reading Group / Lecture Series is dedicated to exploring the wisdom of renowned elder creatives. Through group discussion, we aim to find meaningful lessons that can shape our creative coming-of-age.
Whether you're an artist, writer, or simply passionate about creativity, join us as we learn from the masters and grow together in our creative pursuits.
Workshops are designed to help you get closer to the soulful nature of your own creativity.
Events hosted on zoom.
Workshop: Getting Out of Your Own Way - Shadow Work for Creativity
Dates & Times on next page 2-2.5 hour interactive workshop all about creative blocks and getting out of your own way. - $75.
In this workshop I take you through my shadow work process, aimed specifically at creative blocks. Space limited. Workshop designed and hosted by Vanessa Aldrich on zoom. More details on next page.
Reading Group: James Baldwin's Wisdom for the Creative Path
Becoming an Adult Creative: James Baldwin “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity.” $35
7:30-pmET 2 hours
In our next Reading Group + Lecture Series , we will revisit our most popular piece, James Baldwin's deeply invigorating reflections on the artist's path. We'll discuss his ideas on the universality of struggles like: doubt, humiliation, failure, isolation, fear, and how all of it serves your gifts.
The child artist is sustained by joy and success alone, the adult artist understands that art is a responsibility, and the power of transforming individual struggle into wisdom for other people.
Meeting will take place on zoom. Participants will be sent a pdf + audio recording as well as questions/thoughts to guide your exploration. The essay/speech is short and accessible. Participants will be sent recording of meeting.
discussion lead and guided by Vanessa Aldrich
Creativity Workshop: Myth, Fear, and the Creative coming-of-age
Fear and the Creative Coming-of-Age - $75
Dates / Times on Next Page
2-2.5 hour interactive workshop that explores how to transform fear to potent creative energy.
This workshop will show you the universal stages of the creative coming-of-age, teaching you how to see common experiences of fear, shame, failure, etc as guides through your creative rite-of-passage. In a world that wants you to be preoccupied with a narrow version of success, this workshop you understand the soulful nature of creativity, and to approach your work heroically.
Workshop will start with an interacting lecture on the mythopoeics of creativity, exploring common themes like Villains, Heroes, The Dark Goddess, Fear, Shame, and More.
Space limited.
Workshop designed and hosted by Vanessa Aldrich on zoom.
participants will be sent a recording of the workshop.
Creativity Workshop: Myth, Fear, and the Creative Coming-of-Age
Fear and the Creative Coming-of-Age - $50
6p-8p ET
2 hour interactive workshop that explores how to transform fear to potent creative energy.
This workshop will show you the universal stages of the creative coming-of-age, teaching you how to see common experiences of fear, shame, failure, etc as guides through your own person rite-of-passage. In a world that wants you to be preoccupied with a narrow version of success, this workshop you understand the soulful nature of creativity where difficulty is nothing at all to be ashamed of.
Space limited.
Workshop designed and hosted by Vanessa Aldrich on zoom.
Reading Group: Poetry for the Creative Journey
Poetry for the Creative Journey $35
7-9pm ET
"Find a beautiful work of art, admire it, and realize that it was created by a human being just like you, no more human, no less.” - Maya Angelou
In our next reading group meeting, we survey poetry all related to the creative process, and the soulful nature of living a life devoted to craft. Themes explored: fear, shame, doubt, inspiration, spirituality, process, commitment, and art as collective healing. The idea is look to art itself and elder creatives for wisdom about our own process.
Meeting will take place on zoom. Participants will be sent advanced copy of reading materials upon booking. All poetry selected will be short and accessible, and translated into English.
discussion lead and guided by Vanessa Aldrich
Creativity Workshop: Transforming Fear
Fear and the Creative Coming-of-Age - $50
6p-8p ET
2 hour interactive workshop that explores how to transform fear to potent creative energy.
This workshop will show you the universal stages of the creative coming-of-age, teaching you how to see common experiences of fear, shame, failure, etc as guides through your own person rite-of-passage. In a world that wants you to be preoccupied with a narrow version of success, this workshop you understand the soulful nature of creativity where difficulty is nothing at all to be ashamed of.
Space limited.
Workshop designed and hosted by Vanessa Aldrich on zoom.
Reading Group: James Baldwin's Wisdom for the Creative Path
Becoming an Adult Creative: James Baldwin “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity.” $35
7-9pm ET
In our next reading group meeting, we will explore James Baldwin's deeply validating reflections on the artist's path. We'll discuss his ideas on the universality of struggles like: doubt, humiliation, failure, isolation, fear, and how all of it serves your gifts. Truly an essay on the meaning of being an adult artist. The child artist is sustained by joy and success alone, the adult artist understands the power of transforming individual struggle into their work.
Meeting will take place on zoom. Participants will be sent a free pdf + YouTube of the essay in focus, as well as questions/thoughts to guide your exploration. The essay/speech is short and accessible.
discussion lead and guided by Vanessa Aldrich
Creativity Workshop: Shadow Work for your Creative Coming-of-Age
Workshop: Shadow Work for your Creative Coming-of-Age.
2 hour interactive workshop taking your through my creative shadow work process.
10a-12noon eastern time.
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