Wednesday, November 30, 2011

2012 will be our tenth year of courses at the Almassera - it seems hardly possible that amount of time has gone by - I still feel I'm getting to know the village and the endless richness of the landscape here.

Hopefully the new year will see an expansion of the Almassera into 'Casa Catalina', the little house opposite us. We have plans to build a studio to the side and create an independent unit available for retreat and as an artist's studio.

And for our tenth anniversary year we have some exciting courses lined up:

17th March Christopher North Beginning to Write

31st March Mario Petrucci - Creative writing generally

14th April Jane Draycott - Poetry

28 April Judith Barrington - Memoir

May 12th Nancy Shapiro - Writing as therapy

June 23rd Jenny Johnson - Painting landscape.

September 1st Mimi Khalvati - Poetry

September 15th Jo Shapcott - Poetry

October 20th Simon Barron and Rosalind Brady -
Songwriting

November 2nd - 5th Olive Gathering and olive oil tasting

November 10th John Hartley Williams - Poetry