Writer’s Workshop:Playing with Words
Class 1
: Tuesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.Individual conferences: 4:45 p.m. - 5:45p.m. by appointment
Class 2
: Wednesdays
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9:30 a.m. - noon;Individual conferences: noon - 1:00p.m. by appointmentInstructor: Amalia MelisDates:Tuesdays -- Oct. 11, 18, 25; Nov. 8, 15,29Wednesdays --Oct.12, 19, 26; Nov. 9,16, 30.Cost: 180 euros (17.5-hour program)Minimum enrollment: 6 (in each class)Maximum enrollment: 10 (in eachclass)
Join us to play with words to create stories you have always wanted to tell. Togetherwe will cover different elements of Fiction: Setting, Character, Point of View,Dialogue, Plot, etc. This workshop isdesigned to motivate the writer in all of us, and its focus will be to help each of usdiscover our own writing voice and style.New and published writers are welcome. We will use several techniques in class totap into
our thoughts/ideas for stories— free writing and writing prompts,including photographs, short story lines,poems, one line sentences, etc. Someoutside reading may be required. (Shortstories are often discussed in class as theypertain to style, character, voice, plot).
Once we start producing work,participants may be asked to send theirnew writing to the group for an initialread before we meet in class. Groupcomments will provide constructivecriticism, guidance for rewriting, andediting suggestions. Amalia Melisis creator and organizer of the Aegean Arts Circle Creative Writing Workshops (fourteen writing workshopshave been held to date). Her first shortstory “Immigrant Daughter” won secondplace award for new writers in GlimmerTrain (U.S. literary magazine/2002).Two other short stories were finalists inGlimmer Train ( 2005 & 2007). She hasfinished writing her first novel and isworking on her second novel. She is afreelance feature writer for magazinesand newspapers. When avoiding theblank page, she makes sculptures out of discarded pieces of metal & wire.
Communicate in Greek!(for beginners)
Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.Instructor: Vasiliki KlimouDates: Oct. 11, 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 15, 29;Dec. 6, 13, 20; Jan. 10, 17Cost: 180 euros (18 hour program)Minimum enrollment: 6Maximum enrollment: 15
Need to learn how to get on the rightbus? Make sure that you arrive on theright island for your weekend getaway?Buy sugar instead of flour at the market? Ask someone if you can buy him/her adrink?This course is designed for adults whowish to begin a formal study of the Greek language. Students will learn the Greek alphabet and to read and communicatein Greek. Vocabulary and basic grammarinstruction will focus on everydaycommunication. The goal is to learnGreek while getting acclimated to life inGreece.InstructorVicky Klimouis a member of the Modern Language DepartmentFaculty at ACS Athens. She has taughtbeginning Greek to children and adultsand is currently teaching French andEnglish as a Foreign Language in the ACS Athens Middle School. She is agraduate of Simon Fraser University inVancouver and has been teaching for six years.
Sculpture/ Design forStop Motion Animation
Tuesdays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.Instructor: Dimitris KaliviotisDates: Oct. 11, 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 15, 29;Dec. 6, 13, 20Cost: 200 euros -- including materials(20-hour program)Minimum enrollent: 6Maximum enrollment: 10
This workshop is a hands-on characterdesign course starting with drawn designmethods in conjunction with sculpting. Animating the character will beencouraged but remains optional. A scaled character in clay is still theeasiest and most direct way to create andexpress a character design. In this“digital era” expressing a concept/designas a physical object, during and after it’scompletion, has never been morepertinent. Sculptures are very oftenscanned in 3D to make virtual models forSFX and video games. Creature designhas never been more popular.Students taking this class will have thechance to create a character design fromscratch using clay and learn the samemethods a professional in theentertainment industry would use.Students will first design a character in2D and then translate it into a real model(3D). They will also be encouraged andshow how to make their own tools.Participants will use computers for thepurposes of aiding in the research &development of the character design viafinding images on the internet of textures, animals, art and other examplesof creature design and puppet sculpting.The finished result will be something every student can take home with him/her for further work and/or to use as apoint of reference if they wish to explorethe field further. If the students choose towork on an exceptionally ambitiousproject they can continue to work on itafter the class is over using the methods/techniques learned and eventually add itto their portfolio.InstructorDimitri Kaliviotisis aprofessional model-maker, sculptor,designer and animator. He graduatedfrom ACS Athens in 1995 and went on toget a degree indesign/art at Concordia
University in Montreal.
After working on American film
productions for 10 yearson films such as "Secret Window", "300","Taking Lives" and "Night At TheMuseum", Dimitri has recently relocatedto Athens, Greece.
Creating ProfessionalMultimediaPresentations
Wednesdays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.Instructor: Dr. Angelos AthanasopoulosDates: Oct. 12, 19, 26; Nov. 2, 9Cost: 100 euros (10-hour program)Minimum enrollment: 6Maximum enrollment: 15
Does your job (or school program)require you regularly to makeprofessional presentations to groups of people? Are you bored with the structureand look of the typical Powerpointpresentation? (Imagine how bored youraudience is.)
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