Creating A Vivid Memoir
Adult (Ages 16+) | Registration opens 11/5/2025 10:00 AM
Where do you begin a memoir and how to convey your memories onto the page? How to write scenes, add vividness, drama and delight to your story? How to structure your work so it's manageable yet compelling to write and read? How to incorporate photos, letters, journals, art and music into the unfolding work? How could a simple, step-by-step framework actually help you to get it done? How to publish your work should you wish to? Come find out!
With Artist Kendall Dudley
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- Bring paper or a journal 8x10 or larger, 3 photos you might include in a memoir, and one object, and whatever art making tools you customarily use., if any.
Kendall Dudley
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Kendall Dudley, MA, runs in person and online programs that integrate life direction with writing, art, travel and creativity. He’s received many grants for his public art projects on social justice themes. An explorer’s guide to life’s next chapter, “Itineraries For An Original Life” and a novel “Woman in Red Gloves” will be published in 2021. Kendall Dudley received an M.A. from Columbia University and served in the Peace Corps in Iran. All of these experiences inform his artistic and teaching practices.