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James Navé: As one of the pioneers of the performance poetry movement in America today, as well as co-founder of Poetry Alive!, an active member of the Poetry Slam community, a solo performance artist, James Navé brings more than twenty years of experience to the craft of presenting poetry on stage. In addition to performing his own poetry, he has memorized well over six hundred poems ranging from simple children’s poems to Dylan Thomas’ Child’s Christmas in Wales. While it would be fair to describe him as a performance poet, it would also be accurate to say he is an actor, a storyteller, an improvisational artist, and a champion of the oral tradition. His work is exciting, engaging, interactive, and compelling. He is an adjunct faculty member at Vermont College and a founding member of the Taos Writing Salon.
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Whether they aspire to be painters or poets, physicians or lawyers, engineers or entrepreneurs, students need more than factual knowledge in order to succeed. This class introduces students to skills and techniques which allows them to tap into their positive core and use what they discover to dream what might be, design how it can be, and to implement a strategy that will expand future growth. Using a multidisciplinary approach including Appreciative Inquiry, exploring writing as a navigational tool to fully inhabit one’s own existence, and creativity techniques from The Artist’s Way, James Navé will lead students through an exploration of their creative process through language, literature, film, performance and visual arts. Students will hone their abilities to read diverse situations, to improvise and think on their feet, and trust their creative instincts. The class demonstrates how the creative process can open students’ lives and work to greater flexibility and productivity.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
*The Power of Appreciative Inquiry – Diana Whitney, et al.
*The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
*The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms – Jack Myers & Michael Simms
*On Writing – Stephen King
*Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
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