View all six candid conversations about how to cultivate and nurture your creative practice – and discover how you can keep the faith, keep going, and stay true in a life filled with relationships, responsibilities and distractions.
View every session, now available anytime on-demand.
This Spring, celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder hosted a series of intimate conversations exploring the sometimes challenging relationship between an artist’s creative and personal life. The series began with a live, two-hour session in which Matthew shared all he’s learned about the best ways he’s found to sustain your creativity and adapt your practice to the challenges of a life filled with relationships, responsibilities, and distractions.
Then, Matthew explored these same issues in a series of personal, candid conversations with five brilliant and generous artists at the top of their fields – Amber Tamblyn, Victoria Chang, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Daniel Handler, and Maggie Smith.
Together, these fellow writers and thinkers shared their own creative struggles and successes, and all they have learned about how best to stay creative.
Check out Matthew’s introduction to this series below, then follow the links at the bottom of the page to learn more and view personal invitations from each of Matthew’s conversation partners. Then, get a ticket for a single conversation or – better yet – take advantage of a special series pricing for all six sessions. Now that the live sessions have concluded, you can view every conversation immediately on-demand.
Matthew Zapruder hosts Five Things I’ve Learned about Cultivating Creativity.
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Follow the links in the class descriptions below to view personal introductions to every series session. Then:
GET SERIES TICKETS DIRECTLY FROM THIS PAGE: Scroll down, register, and get all access to all six Five Things I’ve Learned about How to Balance a Creative Life with a Family Life sessions – that’s six live classes for just $99.00. (Once you purchase, you can view sessions from the archive on-demand at any time!) Alternatively, you can choose just three classes from the series – for just $85.00.
GET AN INDIVIDUAL CLASS TICKET IF YOU PREFER: Scroll down, register, and purchase a single $60 ticket for a single series session. (With purchase, you can view the archive of this session on-demand now, or at any time!)
Matthew Zapruder
Five Things I've Learned About
Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos
View the archive of this two-hour class from celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the practical and spiritual techniques that have helped him to keep the faith and to keep going as a creative artist – and how you can better how to adapt your creative practice to a busy life full of relationships and obligations.
Amber Tamblyn
Five Things I've Learned About
Creativity – and Harnessing Emotion in the Service of Powerful Art
View the archive of this two-hour conversation between poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn and Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to harness our emotions into the full force of our creative work — and how to put all that we’re feeling about the state of the world to good use.
Victoria Chang
Five Things I've Learned About
Creativity – by Being an Outsider
View the archive of this two-hour conversation between poet and writer Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that following an unconventional path can be a surprising source of creative inspiration and innovation.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Five Things I've Learned About
Creativity – by Writing Through Crisis
View the archive of this two-hour conversation between writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about writing and creativity – and about the artistic necessity to write from the emotional landscape of crisis.
Daniel Handler
Five Things I've Learned About
Creativity – That Turn Out To Be Wrong
View the archive of this two-hour conversation between best-selling writer Daniel Handler and Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things Daniel has Learned about Creativity – or the five things he had thought he’d learned, until life and experience suggested otherwise.
Maggie Smith
Five Things I've Learned About
Creativity – During Times of Upheaval
View the archive of this two-hour conversation between best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith and Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about what it means to prioritize your creative practice in ways that allow you to stay productive and feel most like yourself – no matter what the rest of your life looks like.
You and a guest could win two tickets to the class of your choice.