Cool Memories is enrolling for October and November classes.
Each class is capped at 8 students, and operates on a sliding scale ($100-200).
To sign up for any class fill out the form here.
Each class is capped at 8 students, and operates on a sliding scale ($100-200).
To sign up for any class fill out the form here.
Pier Paolo Pasolini Writing Working with Chariot Wish
In-Person @ Wendys Subway, Tuesdays in October, 7-9pm ET
In this four-week writing workshop, we will dive into the provocative and lush composition of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life” (The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Arabian Nights) and the first film of his “Trilogy of Death”, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Each week, we will explore one film as both a standalone work of art and an entry into larger conversations on aesthetics, politics, and queer theory as well as Pasolini’s concepts of the “aesthetics of contamination” and the “cinema of poetry.” We will engage with supplementary readings of criticism and poetry that include Pasolini’s own writings, as well as texts from Cesar Vallejo, Robert Gluck, Italo Calvino, Guy Hocquenghem, Bob Kaufman, and others. Through these viewings, readings and discussions we will explore the oral tradition of poetry and ekphrastic form to generate writing. Weekly poetry prompts will be assigned and robust time will be reserved in each class to discuss and edit students’ work that they composed for that week. $100-200 per student. This class meets Tuesdays, 7-9pm in person at Wendy’s Subway.
Virtual Poetry Workshop with Ben Fama
Meets four times Oct- Nov ((10/22, 10/29, 11/19. 11/26) 6-8pm ET
$100-200 sliding scale.
In this class we will write and submit poems each week, then meet and discuss them. We will close-read poems by publishined authors as well, time permitting.