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| The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Coming to the Voices Workshop |
| CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A VONA WRITER! |
| This page is full of information about coming to Voices. Just a few facts to make it a little easier to pack, prepare,and participate. |
We are on the campus of University of San Francisco in the Haight- Ashbury District. The style is casual and cool. And we mean cool in every sense of the word. In the summer, the temperatures can drop into the 40's and the fog can linger most of the morning. Bring your fleece, sweater, fuzzy slippers. If you're staying on campus, you'll be in Phelan Hall, across from the cafeteria. These are dorm rooms. Each participant will have a single. Bathrooms are shared. Phelan Lounge is your room 24/7 and you can hang out, make tea, play music, work on your writing, work on your canvas and make friends in the Lounge. The Voices workshop has a serious focus, writers, like you, have set this time aside for their work. It also has a social aspect. We are a community. Writers often go out together to the Haight or to Clement Street or other parts of San Francisco. At least one field trip to the beach is organized and walks through nearby Golden Gate Park. The Voices Workshop Sunday night we all get together for Orientation. Even if you're a VONA vet, coming to orientation is essential. Besides meeting the other participants, you have your intro meeting with the workshop instructor. Materials are distributed, along with name tags, contact sheets and classroom numbers. Workshops run 9:30-12:30 each day. They always start on time; sometimes they run late. Very often the participants get too involved to call it a day right on time. Give your self a grace period for after class. Afternoons are reserved for one-on-one meetings with your instructor except for Wednesdays and Fridays. By now you may have received your guidelines, syllabus or class directions. You may have had to upload your writing for the class. You receive your classes' work and it's important that the work is read before you come to the workshop. You'll be surprised at how little free time you'll have at the workshop. Classes, writing, discussing, sharing, and making the collage will eat up your time. Special Events We have plans for you...on Wednesdays, a Faculty Panel convenes to talk about publishing and writers of color. Participants ask their most burning questions. On Thursdays your faculty gives a public reading. It's free and open to all and books and tee-shirts are for sale. It's a great time to see your teachers strut their stuff. On Fridays class photographs are taken during the workshop hours. The afternoon is filled with buzz of a satisfying week as the participants bring their offerings to the potluck bbq. This is followed by the student reading. Each participant gets a few minutes to present their work to the vona community. This takes place in Phelan Lounge The Lounge and the Collage Each writer is assigned a canvas on which they create a collage. Any materials can be used to express something about yourself. In our gallery we have another way of getting to know our writers and our faculty. Anytime of day you can find a writer cutting, pasting, weaving and scribbling. On Saturday, we strike the gallery and make our writing affirmations for the coming year. The lounge is your space and will have a tea pot and tea, maybe some food, music, blankets. Whatever it gathers over the course of the week. Who is Who
is the Workshop Director and she can let you know what's going on when and where. Amanda Andonian is the Workshop Facilitator--she did the work to get you to VONA, handling manuscripts, files and finances. Dalia Basiouny is the program coordinator, she will be in residence in Phelan to help you out in the lounge and any participants' needs. The directors are Diem Jones who is in residence Wednesday-Saturday and Elmaz Abinader who teaches both weeks but will be happy to meet with you for any serious concerns you have. All contact information is distributed at Orientation. Any other questions? Just Ask |
| The Geary Street Bus No. 38 comes to VONA |
| SFO is the local airport. Bayporter is the shuttle.Make your reservations on line |
| Phelan Hall is off Golden Gate Avenue west of Masonic. Parking is time-limited map |
| Writers are commuting from around the Bay Area Set up a carpool Sunday night |
| If you're local, Invite your friends to the Thursday night readings |
| Cell Phones are silent during workshops and readings --no texting either? |
| Consider Packing: camera personal photos computer (we will have wi fi) your favorite cup (we're trying to reduce the use of paper and plastic) some music stuff for the collage clothes for the most unpredictable weather around flip flops |
| traders joes and office depot are 2 blocks away |
| blocks away |
| peets is 5 blocks away |