Tuesday: Creative Writing [Ages 8-12]

We will explore fiction writing and poetry using fun and imaginative hands-on activities to examine the different kinds of writing each requires. Students will learn how to use image and figurative language to create a poem, and will also work to create a story complete with a formalized plot, dialogue, and setting.

About the Teaching Artist: Eloise Bruce has a BFA, MFA and M Ed.   She began her career at the Asolo Theatre/the state theatre of Florida, directed for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, is the founder of Idaho Theatre for Youth and was Artistic Director of Creative Theater in Princeton. In 2004 her first book of poetry, Rattle, was published by CavenKerry Press. Over the years she has had various roles at the Frost Place Center for Poetry and the Arts in Franconia, NH. She is a member of the poetry critique and performance group Cool Women and works as a teaching artist for Young Audiences of NJ and Playwright’s Theatre and teaches multi-genre writing to middle school writers at the Arts and Education Center.