Five Things I’ve Learned about Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos
Join us for 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.
Please join us this Spring for something special
Beginning Tuesday, March 11th, celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder hosts a series of intimate conversations exploring the sometimes challenging relationship between an artist’s creative and personal life. This new series begins with a live, two-hour session in which Matthew shares 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, five more times throughout the Spring, Matthew will explore these same issues in a series 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 will share their own creative struggles and successes, and all they have learned about how best to stay creative. There will plenty of time to ask questions in each live session. And – as always – every session will be archived for subsequent on-demand viewing just as soon as it concludes.
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.
We couldn’t be more pleased to welcome Matthew and the circle of creative thinkers and artists he’s collected for this thrilling new series. We hope you’ll join us.
Matthew Zapruder hosts Five Things I’ve Learned about Cultivating Creativity.
Series tickets available now,
directly from this page.
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 of this spring’s 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. (If you’ve missed a session that’s already taken place, you can view the archive now, or 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. (If you’ve missed that session live, you can view the archive on-demand now, or at any time!)
Matthew Zapruder
Five Things I've Learned About
Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos
Join celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder in this live, two-hour class, 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
Join poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn in this live, two-hour conversation with 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
Join poet and writer Victoria Chang in this live, two-hour conversation with 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
Join writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras in this live, two-hour conversation with 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
Join best-selling writer Daniel Handler in this live, two-hour conversation with Matthew Zapruder and discover the Five Things He’s 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
Join best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith in a live, two-hour conversation with 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.