What is says in the booklet - Time Travel: Journaling Your Past - Step back in time and preserve your best childhood memories in your journal. In this unique workshop, you'll use forms, charts, and pictures to create a rich record of your past. No artistic skills required. Guaranteed to make you laugh out loud and feel happy inside.
What we're doing - We'll start by remembering our families, ancestors and the neighborhood/s we grew up in. We'll construct a vague family tree, with art notes. Then we start putting our memories on paper, using an original system that Aisling has taught in workshops such as this, for the past, oh, 20 years or so.
Paper, forms, and a folder will be provided, but you can glue or recopy your worksheets into your "real" journal.
What you should bring - Nothing is required, really, just something to write with. Pencil with eraser is good, pen is okay too. Mostly, bring your memories.
Optional: If you'd like to illustrate your time-travel journal notes, bring photocopies of childhood and ancestral photos to glue onto your pages. If you have vintage books and/or magazines to remind others of our shared growing-up years, bring them, too!
What I'll bring - Folders, notebook paper, and a few printed forms and idea sheets. I'll also have a couple of books about the 50's and 60's with me, to remind you about those eras, whether they're your past or your parents'.
Recommended preparations - Watch vintage TV shows on Nick at Night and other TV stations. Jot down notes about fond childhood memories.
Or, cruise through your "baby book," family albums, and go have dinner at your mother's, if you can.
What you can buy - I'll have extra folders with me, $2 each. We have 24 students signed up, and I'm bringing 30 sets of folders/forms/papers/idea sheets.
Where and when - Saturday morning, first class (Session 4), in Classroom D, for Dee-lightful memories which you can feel smug about finally putting on paper! *grin*