From Thought to Pen 

All day writing workshop intensive with Adilah Barnes, Award-winning Los Angeles-based actor/writer

Award-winning Los Angeles-based actor/writer Adilah Barnes of stage, television and film will teach this all day writing workshop intensive, From Thought To Pen,  designed for writers who want a day to get away to write, write, write!

Located at The Writer's Retreat in Sharpsburg , GA , a peaceful and scenic creative haven, participants will explore their writing in a comfortable and woodsy environment. Writers will recall and develop personal stories. 

Workshop will include stimulating sensory and writing exercises, shared material within the group and structural and content feedback for the genre of writing each participant is developing.

Facilitator:  Adilah Barnes.

Location:

Sharpsburg, Georgia

Lodging: The Writers' Retreat in Sharpsburg, Georgia (not included in the tuition)

Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008 from 10 - 5 p.m.

Tuition:  $99

REGISTER NOW  call 770-254-9888 or E-mail Adilah Barnes or click below to register online.

Enrollment is limited: please reserve early.

Adilah Barnes is a writer, actor, acting instructor, producer, Internet talk show host and lecturer. She has appeared in television and film productions such as Roseanne, Cold Case, Erin Brockovich, and Iron-Jawed Angels. She conceived her one-woman show, I Am That I Am: Woman, Black, in 1990 and toured three continents: North America (including the Caribbean), Africa, and Europe. In the United States the show has toured nearly forty states. She co-founded the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival in 1993 and produced close to 400 solo artists from around the globe. An acting instructor, Adilah extends her knowledge of film and visual culture to the community by teaching solo writing classes entitled From Thought to Pen, Connecting the Inner Dots and From Page to Stage. More than twenty solo pieces have been produced from these classes as part of the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival’s homegrown Hot Off the Press series. Adilah earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her upcoming book On My Own Terms: One Actor’s Journey is slated for release this year. She will begin teaching solo writing classes in Atlanta at the Award-Winning Alliance Theatre in June 2008.