Poetry, Prose & Pastels

Adult Class | This class has been canceled

Adult all levels

4/2/2024-4/30/2024

10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Tue

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$130.00

$117.00

The long winter is over, spring has arrived, and it’s National Poetry Month! Celebrate this season of renewal and tap into your imaginative, intuitive right-brain. In this workshop, get your creative juices flowing using a variety of art and writing prompts and exercises.This is an opportunity to take time out and get playful in a supportive group environment. As an added benefit, research shows that the expressive arts boost the immune system by releasing blocked energy and reversing the stress response, which makes people feel better and able to navigate more easily through life’s ups and downs. Previous writing or drawing experience is welcome but NOT required. Required materials: a small set of oil pastels and a writing journal and/or sketchbook.


Amy J. Barry of Stony Creek, CT is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and poet, whose work has been published by Poets Choice, Other Women Worldly Press, and Unlimited Literature. She has completed two series of connected poems: One chronicling her journey through the pandemic and the other, her journey through her parents final years. 

Barry graduated cum laude from University of Hartford in 1978 with a BA in English literature and a minor in mass communications. She received a certificate in the Expressive Arts from Salve Regina University in 2010. For the past 12 years she has been facilitating expressive art and writing workshops and programs all over the CT shoreline.

She is also a Hospice-trained bereavement support group facilitator, and author of "A Child's Grief Journey," a picture book selected as one of the best five books for 1999 by Education World. Her new picture book, “A Cat All His Own” will be published next Spring, 2024.