Upcoming Events — Kelly DuMar
Poet, Playwright, Workshop Facilitator
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Upcoming Events


Your Memoir as Monologue Workshop Intensive, IWWG Annual Summer Conference
Jul
20
to Jul 24

Your Memoir as Monologue Workshop Intensive, IWWG Annual Summer Conference

IWWG SUMMER CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

I'm delighted to be returning for my 8th year to teach at the IWWG Summer Conference! Join me, and many other wonderful presenters, for my workshop: Your Memoir As Monologue for the Stage

JULY 20-24

REGISTRATION IS OPEN! https://www.iwwg.org/conf23-sched


Memoir as Monologue is a three-Day Play Lab intensive with a public SHOWCASE performance Sept. 12, 2023, 7:00 p.m., online with guest actors, produced by Kelly DuMar. All writers will have the chance to have their monologue performed in the showcase, with a follow up Q&A. This workshop will help you artistically express what you’ve overcome and achieved, and creatively share your experience to benefit others through the medium of theater. You’ll learn how to write successful dramatic monologues based on your life that are personally meaningful, emotionally satisfying, and relevant and engaging for an audience. Through writing prompts and creative exploration, you’ll develop your ordinary and extraordinary life experiences into powerful, dramatic monologues that can be performed by an actor––or you––with universal appeal. We’ll include a discussion of elements of dramatic structure, including the role of conflict, plot, communicating subtext, voice, narrative, and the importance of set-up. New writing will be generated and revised daily. Beginning and experienced writers are welcome.  


Kelly DuMar is delighted to be returning for the eighth year to produce the IWWG Summer Play Lab. Kelly is a playwright, poet and writing workshop facilitator from Boston. Her award-winning plays and monologues have been produced around the US and Canada and are published by dramatic publishers, including her award winning one-act play for youth, The Adventures of Rocky & Skye, published by Youth Plays. Kelly has published three chapbooks of poetry. She is a past president of Playwrights’ Platform, Boston, where she led new play development for many years. She founded and produced the Our Voices Festival of Women Playwrights at Wellesley College for twelve years. Kelly produced the IWWG Annual BOSTON Conference for five years and was a board member of IWWG for five years. She teaches Your Memoir As Monologue for the Transformative Language Arts Network twice a year and produces an online monologue showcase.

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Kelly's Epistolary Erasure Webinar: Giving New Life to Old Letters with Poetry & Palimpsest, July 19, 7:00 p.m. ET
Jul
19
7:00 PM19:00

Kelly's Epistolary Erasure Webinar: Giving New Life to Old Letters with Poetry & Palimpsest, July 19, 7:00 p.m. ET

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

7:00-8:30 p.m. EST

On Zoom, Sponsored by the Franciscan Center of Tampa

With: Kelly DuMar


...a letter is a joy of earth — it is denied the gods.

~ Emily Dickinson, 1885

We rarely communicate with actual mailed letters today. And yet many of us have access to family archives containing rich personal histories of intimate and compelling relationships. This workshop springs from Kelly’s process of developing a poetry collection from letter archives through the form of erasure. She will illuminate the creative process of developing new writing and meaning from personal archives and guide you to explore the exciting multi-generational impact of this dynamic form. New and experienced writers are welcome, as well as writers working in memoir and other genres.

 

Erasure poetry, also known as blackout poetry, is a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an existing text and erases, blacks out, or otherwise obscures a large portion of the text, creating a wholly new work from what remains. ~ The Academy of American Poets

 

PLEASE BRING: A copy of an original letter of any length in your possession that was sent via the mail. You might be, but you don’t have to be the addressee. This letter might be a postcard or other mailed document, typewritten or handwritten. If you have the original envelope, please bring that too. A jpg image of the letter/envelope is fine for this workshop so that you do not alter any originals.

 

Fee: $20.00 (no refunds)

 

About Kelly DuMar 

A poet, playwright, and workshop leader, Kelly guides new and experienced writers to generate new writing across genre. Kelly’s fourth poetry collection, “jinx and heavenly calling––I poached a portion of my mother’s love letters to my father, 1953-1954,” was published in March 2023, by Lily Poetry Books. Kelly is also author of Before You Forget— The Wisdom of Writing Diaries for Your Children, and many published plays. She blogs her nature photos and creative writing from the Charles River (where she lives) daily, for the past six years, at http://www.kellydumar.com/blog.

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