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Kätlin Kaldmaa is an Estonian poet, writer, translator and literary critic. She has published four collections of poetry “Larii-laree” (1996), “One is None” (2008) and “Worlds, Unseen” (2009), “The Alphabet of Love” (2012), three books for children, “Four Children and Murka” (2010), "The Story of Someone of the Elderly's Daughter” (2016) and “It’s Damn Good to be a Bad Girl“ (2016), autobiographical works of nonfiction, „Happiness is the Matter of Choice” (2013) and “Two Love Stories“ (2017), short story collection “The Small Sharp Knife” (2014) and a novel “No Butterflies in Iceland” (2013).

Collections of her poems have been published in English, “One is None”  (2014), Arabic “Geography of Love”  (2015),  Finnish, “The Alphabet of Love” (2015) and Spanish (2017) “La geografía del amor“, collection of short stories in Hungarian, novel in Finnish, and children’s book “The Story of Someone of the Elderly's Daughter“ in Icelandic. Upcoming collections of poetry in Catalan and short stories in English.

She has written widely on literature, mostly literature in translation, and has translated more than 70 works of world’s best literature from British Isles to Latin America. Amongst translated authors there are Jeanette Winterson, Aphra Behn, Michael Ondaatje, James Meek, Ali Smith, Meg Rosoff, Madeleine Thien, Goran Simić and Gabriel García Márquez. Her own poems have been translated into Arabic, Asturian, Czech, Finnish, French, English, Galician, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish. In 2012 she won the annual Friedebert Tuglas short story award. Kätlin Kaldmaa is the President of Estonian PEN and as of 2016 serves as the International Secretary of PEN International. In 2017 her children’s book “It’s Damn Good to Be a Bad Girl“ was included in White Ravens 2017 catalogue of the world’s most notable children’s books. She is currently working on her second novel.

Students will learn how to:

• Approach their own creativity


• Achieve their ambitions in expressing themselves according to their goals


• Interact and cooperate with fellow creators in a respectful yet highly inspirational manner


• Use different voice registers


• Use body as a part of the conveyed message


• Unite the message, voice and body

SKILLS:

- Creative Writing

- Poetry

- Literary Critic

Storytelling

- Short Stories

- Creative Performing



DATE: 12 - 30 Mar, 2018

DURATION: 3 Weeks

LECTURES: 3 Hours per day

LANGUAGE: English

LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus

COURSE TYPE: Offline

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
COURSE OUTLINE
ABOUT KATLIN
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CREATIVE WRITING, STORYTELLING & CREATIVE PERFORMING

Creativity is the engine of the 21st century. The contemporary world is full of ideas, concepts, products, and people trying to find their way through this maze. Every start-up has to have not only the idea and (future) product, but first of all the story to tell both to the potential investors as well as users, now and future, which brings us to the necessity of creativity and storytelling. Whatever you do, you have to have a story.

The other intent of this module is bringing together people of different backgrounds and knowledge, in order to engage them in working towards a common goal in a new way – through writing a piece of fiction and performing it. Uniting those two fields gives students the possibility to try out their own abilities in a safe environment and also cooperate with other students, bringing in new viewpoints and experiences. This is one of the best ways of establishing teams that have innovation at their core.

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HARBOUR.SPACE UNIVERSITY

DATE: 12 – 30  Mar, 2018

DURATION: 3 Weeks

LECTURES: 3 Hours per day

LANGUAGE: English

LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus

COURSE TYPE: Offline

CREATIVE WRITING, STORYTELLING & CREATIVE PERFORMING

Session 2

Discussing works chosen by students, assignment

Session 3

Exercises in creative writing, analysing, discussing

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Session 1

Introduction to creative writing, reading Kate Tempest, discussion

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Session 4

Exercises in creative writing, analysing, discussing

WEEK 1: Combines individual and collective work: reading and discussing different works, writing exercises of different genres and styles, students can but do not have to write poetry, instead they can express themselves in any chosen way expressed through writing. Exercises of the first week are meant to open up the creativity and give a closer look into writing/storytelling through the freedom of thought. This means working together during the seminars-lectures and individual work after that.

WEEK 2: We’ll move on to practical voice training: how to use different registers by directing voice into different body parts (head, throat, chest), giving it strength and finding new ways of expressing oneself. Getting to know one’s voice will also bring along the better knowledge of one’s own body, from the inside out as voice brings the body along, opens it up in a new way. This week the cooperation with fellow students begins.

WEEK 3: Is dedicated to cooperation and final performance. By the end of the second week people will team up into duos or trios, in order to start working on common writing and performing. They are free to choose whatever they want to write, be it a story, a poem, a play etc. The only prerequisite is that they have to perform it together. Working on the writing and performing simultaneously will increase the courage and trust, both on a personal as well as on a team level.

Creativity is the engine of the 21st century. The contemporary world is full of ideas, concepts, products,
and people trying to find their
way through this maze. Every start-up has to have not only the idea and (future) product, but first of all the story to tell both to the potential investors as well as users, now and future, which brings us to the necessity of creativity and storytelling. Whatever you do, you have to have a story.

The other intent of this module is bringing together people of different backgrounds and knowledge, in order to engage them in working towards a common goal in a new way – through writing a piece of fiction and performing it. Uniting those two fields gives students the possibility to try out their own abilities in a safe environment and also cooperate with other students, bringing in new viewpoints and experiences. This is one of the best ways of establishing teams that have innovation at their core.