| Christine Hemp Schedule
of Events & Seminars
PAST EVENTS:
IOWA SUMMER WRITERS FESTIVAL 2007 JUNE 16-29
US NAVY SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES: 2007
June 5, 2007 - Communicating with Challenging
People
July 17, 2007 - Performance
Anxiety
US NAVY SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES:
2007
January 23, 2007 - Grammar Brush Up
February 13, 2007 - Communication Excellence
March 13, 2007 - Communicating with Challenging People
MAY 2 HRSC LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE:
HEMP AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER
“Imagination: The Hidden Door to Higher Performance”
HRSC CLASSES: JACKSON PARK FACILITY,
BREMERTON
E-writing, Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Communicating with Challenging People, Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Communicating with Challenging People, Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Communicating with Challenging People, Thursday, September 14, 2006
E-writing, Thursday, September 21, 2006
2006 IOWA SUMMER WRITING FESTIVAL
Writing Your Way In: The Essay
Weekend Workshop
June 17–18
The most eloquent and surprising essays—whether
political or lyrical, scientific or beatific—trace the writer’s thought
process through the act of writing. The reader actually accompanies the writer
across the threshold into understanding. During this weekend course, we will
compose at least two short essays that surprise you as well as the reader. Writing
in class and out, we will also explore how voice shapes your story, whether it’s
a personal narrative or a treatise on French desserts. You will leave the workshop
with a deeper understanding of how the writing process can trigger an “aha” experience.
This weekend is for novice and veteran prose writers alike. The only prerequisite
is a willingness to let go of expectation.
The Artful Essayist
One-Week Workshop
June 18–23
Often the subject of an essay is not
really what it’s “about.” Like a good poem, the best essays
have many layers of meaning, weaving several strands to offer the reader a new
way of seeing. In this course, we will use various “ways in” to an
essay—looking at paintings, listening to music, eating a meal, and observing
birds. In other words, we will invite what poet Richard Hugo calls the “triggering
subject,” while discovering the true “generating subject” through
the writing itself. Using examples of literary non-fiction that give us a deeper
experience of the world—from art reviews to personal essays—we will
stir our own work toward clarity, precision, and transformation. This course
is for those who wish to nudge their work towards publication.
I Never Saw A Moor, I Never Saw The
Sea: Poems From Tried Tradition To Wild Invention
One-Week Workshop
June 25–30
I never saw a Moor—
I never saw the Sea—
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.
I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven—
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given—
Emily Dickinson’s poem speaks
of a kind of “knowing”—even though she hadn’t actually
visited the places she names: a moor, the sea, and heaven. For all poets, there
is a leap of faith one takes in order to find one’s voice and the place
the words are looking for. Yet a good poem, whether written in a sonnet or free
verse, contains its own interior logic, and it relies on form. With established
poets’ work as our compass, we will experiment with different poetic forms,
write in first, second and third person, and stretch our language and our imagination.
For experienced or novice poets alike.
Navy Spring Leadership conference on May 5th
“Turning
Dreaded Change Into Pocket Change:
Communication As Currency In Uncertain Times”
Whether you’re bracing yourself
for a new IT system or the deployment of NSPS in July, discover how you
can make these stressful changes easier for you and those whom you work
with. IN times of uncertainty, often the first casualty is clear, open
interaction. This presentation will offer you several practical tools
for making those crucial connections – in writing and in speaking. Learn
to transform a challenging situation into a bright exchange- currency
for a lifetime.
North Cascades Institute “Words from the Straits: A Whidbey Island
Writing Workshop
August 19-21, 2005
click here for details
Summer, 2005
Iowa
Summer Writing Festival, University of Iowa
POEMS: LOST AND FOUND Weekend of June 18-19, 2005
THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE POEM June 20-24, 2005
Assay The
Essay: Critical Essay Writing For Magazines, Newspapers And Radio
One-Week Workshop June 26–July 1
HR: Violence
Prevention in the Workplace 7/29/04
SWFPAC: Making that Vital Connection: Writing and Speaking with Power
EVANW: Effective Communication in Times of Change 8/31/04
HR: Communicating with Challenging People: 9/2/04
HR: E-Writing 9/23/04
EVANW: Dealing with Difficult Colleagues 10/19/04
EVANW: Transformational Leadership 11/22/04
HR: Dealing with the Effects of Stress 12/08/04.
HR: Grammar Brush-Up 01/19/05.
HR: Communication Excellence 02/15/05.
HR: Transformative Leadership 02/17/05.
HR: E-Writing 02/25/05.
HR: Communicating with Challenging People 03/15/05.
HR: Communicating with Challenging People 05/11/05.
HR: Communicating with Challenging People 09/01/05.
HR: E-writing 09/22/05.
August 18-20, 2004, North Cascades Institute, A Whidbey Island Poetry
Workshop
Link to course information at the Institute here!
April-May,
2004 Residency at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
April 27th,
2004. “Tone your Intonations: Getting the Right Inflections in
Speaking and Writing”
Christine Hemp will be the Workshop Leader at the 2004 Northwest
Leadership Conference, Seabeck Conference Center, Seabeck, Washington.
Conference Flyer (pdf)
Summer,
2004
Iowa
Summer Writers Festival, University of Iowa
THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE POEM
Week of June 27, 2004
TEACHING YOUR PROSE TO SING Week of June 20 , 2004
POEMS: LOST AND FOUND Weekend of June 19-20, 2004
Review Course
Descriptions Here
December 2003 --
September 2004 Upcoming Navy Seminars
US Navy
Website Schedule of Seminars, Silverdale, WA
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December
3, 2003 “Writing With Muscle”
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December
10, 2003 “Dealing with Difficult People”
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January
21, 2004 “Grammar Brush-Up”
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January
28, 2004 “Transformative Leadership”
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February
3, 2004 “E-Writing”
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February
17, 2004 “Communication Excellence”
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March
16, 2004 “Dealing with Challenging People”
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May 4, 2004 “Dealing
with Challenging People”
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September
2, 2004 “Dealing with Challenging People”
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September
23, 2004 “E-Writing”
Connecting Chord Port Townsend III, March 8-12
article from PT
Leader: March 10-16
“Islands
of the Imagination. ”September 23-October 3, 2003
Poetry-Ceramic Mosaic Collaboration
with New Mexico artist Eddie Dominguez on Deer Isle Maine, with Deer
Isle-Stonington Elementary students
CONNECTING CHORD II, PORT
TOWNSEND, WA February 2003
Port Townsend Police and Teens at-risk unite and write. Check
out what happened last year: Connecting Chord, 2001
PROSPECT-SIERRA SCHOOL,
BERKELEY, CA. FACULTY RETREAT, September 19-20
Facilitated by Christine Hemp at
Marconi Conference Center
U.S. NAVY, Silverdale WA
SWFPAC Division, July 9-11
“Writing and Communication” seminar (read
what people say about Hemp’s Navy seminars)
DEER ISLE, MAINE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS, May 13-17
Yearly visit as poet-in-residence with final performance on Friday. May
2002 follow-up
Pacific
Reach April
14 - 19, 2002
WHERE HEADLAND MEETS
THE
HEARTLAND
with artist SAS COLBY and poet CHRISTINE HEMP
SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL ARTS
COMMITTEE April 9, 2002
Poetry Reading
U.S. NAVY SPRING TRAINING
SYMPOSIUM, Silverdale, WA APRIL 3 & 4, 2002
Featured Presenter: “Writing Under Pressure” and
“Connecting with your Customer” (read
what people say about Hemp’s Navy seminars)
PHILADELPHIA CONNECTING
CORD March 6th 2002
Philadelphia inner city cops & kids unite and write
U.S. NAVY HUMAN
RESOURCES, Silverdale, WA February 19
1-day course: “Dealing with the Difficult Customer” (read
what people say about Hemp’s Navy seminars)
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
PROSPECT SIERRA SCHOOL February 7-13th, 2002
Poet-in-Residence
JEFFERSON COUNTY VIOLENCE
PREVENTION COUNCIL January 10, 2002
Visiting speaker
PORT
TOWNSEND, WA October 15-19, 2001
“Connecting Chord: Port Townsend” a program with Cops and
Kids using poetry as an instrument of crime prevention and a tool for
non-violence. This Port Townsend Program is the first in the U.S. since
“Connecting Chord: England 2000”
which took place in Brixton, the highest violent crime-rate borough of
London.
PORT
TOWNSEND, WA October 19, 2001
Final performance of cops and kids at Port Townsend High School
Auditorium 7:30 PM
LAW
& JUSTICE COUNCIL, JEFFERSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE, WA October 11,
2001
Luncheon talk to members of Council about Port Townsend “Connecting
Chord” Program: youth and cops unite with poetry
U.S.
NAVY, SHIPYARD, BREMERTON, WA October 23-24, 2001
Technical Writing Seminar with Navy Engineers
U.S.
NAVY, SUB BASE BANGOR, WA August 7-8, 2001
Technical Writing seminar with SWFPAC
U.S.
NAVY, MANAGERS’ CONFERENCE, Silverdale, WA June 19, 2001
Technical Writing Presentation: “Writing With Muscle”
MANUFACTURE
ROYALE, Montolieu, FRANCE June 4, 2001
An Evening of Music and Poetry with Christine Hemp, Jean-Francois
Allain, Christopher Masters and the band Stuff
CENTRUM'S
BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL June 25-30, 2001
guest poet and performer, Port Townsend Washington. Summer 2001
DEER ISLE,
MAINE, April 23-27, 2001:
Yearly visit as poet-in-residence in Stonington Public Schools
FOUND IN
FRANCE: A WORKSHOP for THE ARTFUL TRAVELER
in SOREZE, FRANCE with Artist Sas Colby and Poet Christine Hemp
May
27-June 3, 2001
Experience an
exciting week in South-West France living your art! Guided by two
experienced artists and travelers, you’ll frame your French
impressions in poems, drawings, paintings, and collages. Emphasizing the
portable art process, Sas and Christine will help you transform your
discoveries into word and image. Materials are limited to what you can
travel with easily.
See
more information about Sas Colby
LONDON:
POETRY WEEK WITH COPS AND KIDS
February 28-March 4 2000: Hemp
taught in Brixton, the highest crime-rate borough of London. She worked
with youth offenders and the Metropolitan police, using poetry as a tool
for crime prevention. Sponsored by the Lambeth Crime Prevention Trust
and the English Poetry Society, Hemp helped the police and kids find
common ground through language and finding their own voice. They did a
public performance of their poems and songs on March 4th at “The Brix”
a performance space in Brixton -- where Mike Tyson made a visit just a
month before.
MONTOLIEU,
AUDE, FRANCE:
POETRY READING BY HEMP ON MARCH 17th
in Medieval European “Book Village.”
Sponsored by THE
ENGLISH BOOKSHOP
CHRISTINE HEMP is a poet and writer who
teaches writing across the country and overseas. She has worked with
such diverse groups as Taos Pueblo, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
public schoolchildren, National Park rangers, university students,
molybdenum mine workers, and visual artists. Her work is published
nationwide and she has received many awards, including Harvard
University’s Conway Award for Teaching Writing and a recent poetry
award judged by Alaskan poet John Haines.
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