Class: Rea Franjetic - World Travel Tips: Family Safari
Wed., Aug. 21 • 6:00-8:00 pm • $25
What child (or young-at-heart adult) wouldn’t want to feed or be kissed by a giraffe and hugged by a baby elephant? A family (or multigenerational) safari in East Africa offers close encounters with wildlife and nature. Advanced registration recommended.
President of Cosmopolitan Adventure Tours, Rea Franjetic is a member of the International Ecotourism Society and president of San Francisco Travel Professionals.
- Street:
- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
Graham Rayman - The NYPD Tapes
In May 2010, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft made national headlines when he released a series of secretly recorded audio tapes exposing corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the police department. But, according to a lawsuit filed by Schoolcraft against the City of New York, instead of admitting mistakes and pledging reform Schoolcraft’s superiors forced him into a mental hospital in an effort to discredit the evidence.
In The NYPD Tapes ($27.00), the reporter who first broke the Schoolcraft story brings his ongoing saga up to date, revealing the rampant abuses that continue in the NYPD today, including warrantless surveillance, systemic harassment and underreporting of serious crimes like rape and murder.
Graham A. Rayman is a writer for The Village Voice who has covered the New York City Police Department for 17 years. His NYPD Tapes series has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Award, the Harvard Goldsmith award, and a half-dozen other prizes. Previously, he was at Newsday, covering Ground Zero on the day of the 9/11 attacks and writing about the start of the Iraq War after being embedded with a US Marine Corps. He lives in New York City.
- Street:
- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
Class: Linda Watanabe McFerrin - Location, Location, Location
Sat. August 24 • 10:00-4:00 pm • $105
All the world is a stage and so is the narrative that frames your characters. Whether it’s poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction, a well-conveyed sense of place is key. Jump on a magic carpet to other places and times in this one-day workshop.
Linda Watanabe McFerrin is the Founder of Left Coast Writers®. Her latest novel, Dead Love, a global supernatural thriller, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist.
- Street:
- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
- Country:
- United States
Class: Elizabeth Stark Powers - Dialogue That Works
Sun., Aug. 24 • 1:00-4:00 pm • $60
“Speech is what people do to each other.” Brilliant examples of published dialogue will inspire your best writing. This class will discuss text, subtext, and the key roles of silence, gestures, actions, and setting.
Elizabeth Stark Powers wrote the novel Shy Girl and two short films. She is a veteran writing instructor.
- Street:
- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
Class: David Corbett - Trust Your Story
- Street:
- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
Robert Bessler - Expansion Mastery
If you had the knowledge and tools to make serious and lasting changes in your life, would you do it? If you had the chance to start over, change everything you needed to change in order to live the visions of your dreams, would you? Is it going to take a near death experience to motivate you into making the necessary changes in your life, or will you accept the challenges contained here and master your own personal expansion?
Expansion Mastery ($19.95) offers you a chance at creating the life you know in your heart you were meant to experience. Can you rise up and actually participate in your life? Can you change your attitude from "just getting through another day" to fully engage your life with enthusiasm, purpose and presence?
Robert Bessler helps people to live a more fully engaged life of authenticity, self-honesty, and enthusiasm through the ancient concept of Heaven, Earth and Being. He teaches unique and effective methods that re-empower and re-align people with the life they deserve while opening their heart.
- Street:
- 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
- City:
- Corte Madera ,
- Postal Code:
- 94925
- Country:
- United States
