Join us for this free event:
Poetry and Prose for Peace.
Saturday, March 2
Workshop: 2PM - 5PM
Public Performance: 6PM - 8PM
Ages 16+
FREE
Fellowship Hall GUCC
Do you have a story to tell? Is it something you've wanted to write down for a long time? An event in your own life, the distant past or yesterday, that you want to dive deeper into, write about, and even share as a told story? Here is a chance to do that!
Join Peter Gould for a celebration of storytelling March 2nd at the Fellowship Hall GUCC. (Snow date will be March 23)
At 2pm, Vermont writer Peter Gould will share with us how he takes his personal experiences and makes them into stories that are fun to write and great fun to share-even when the subject matter may be difficult. Participants will be inspired to dig deep, to tell their own stories from their time on the farm, in the sugar house, back in school, on a tough job of work, in love or out of love, in war or peace, or spending a beautiful day outside.
We will close the day writing with a performance, inviting friends and neighbors to sit and listen to our stories. Any who may be inspired are invited to share their own stories, too.
Peter says, “Just come, and put yourself in the place where a great idea can find you. Then, let’s share in the unmatchable fun of hearing each other's stories!"
You can do this workshop twice! Or three times! Sean Prentiss in his poetry writing workshop on April 6, and then, Sean and Peter working together, on April 20.
Peter Gould (he/him) moved to Vermont to join the back-to-the-land generation in the 1970's, an experience he wrote about in his first novel, BURNT TOAST (Alfred A. Knopf). Since then, he has been a writer and a theater worker. His most recent book, HORSE-DRAWN YOGURT (Green Writers Press) tells true life tales about those commune years. For more than twenty years, as half of the duo Gould & Stearns, Peter performed physical comedy and story theater and taught residencies with young students, more than 3000 times in nearly every state in the USA. He continues this work solo today.
Peter founded the youth Shakespeare program, "Get Thee to the Funnery," in 1998, and continues to direct the summer camp to this day. Peter has directed nearly one hundred youth theater productions of all kinds in many places, including England and India! In 2002, Peter earned his PhD from Brandeis University and in 2009, he went on to write WRITE NAKED (Farrar Straus & Giroux), a Young-Adult novel that won the National Green Earth Book Award, a prize given each year to a book that inspires environmental activism in youthful readers. In 2016, Peter was the recipient of the Vermont Arts Council/Governor's Award for Arts Educator of the Year.
Peter continues to write books and direct plays engaged with issues of our time. He lives in Brattleboro with his wife, Vermont State Representative, and visual artist Mollie Burke. They have three children and five grandchildren and are active around Vermont in the areas of climate change, migrant workers' rights, food and farming, prison reform, restorative justice, cross-cultural communication, and always arts-in-education for young people: especially for families who need support.
