{"id":349,"date":"2014-04-08T23:24:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T23:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=349"},"modified":"2014-04-08T23:27:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T23:27:49","slug":"write-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2014\/04\/08\/write-on\/","title":{"rendered":"PANZ member says WRITE ON\u2026re: Professing Creativity Conference at Massey University, Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-351\" style=\"line-height: 1.5em\" alt=\"donn GB\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/04\/donn-GB.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/04\/donn-GB.jpg 170w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/04\/donn-GB-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Hi writers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">As writers our task is to give our writing, our art, time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In early February I attended the Professing Creativity Conference at MasseyUniversity in Wellington. This conference saw the launch of the Aotearoa Creative Writing Research Network.\u00a0 I spent three days listening to some of New Zealand\u2019s most well-known creative writers speak about their own writing and teaching creative writing in Aotearoa.<\/p>\n<p>One keynote address was given by Angie Farrow, who teaches Theatre and Creative Processes at Massey, is a fellow PANZ member, and an award winning playwright.<\/p>\n<p>Her presentation focused on experimenting, &#8211; playing, taking risks, and being brave. I felt totally inspired by her words and wanted to pass on her message.\u00a0 She encouraged writers to tap the imagination and dive deeply into spaces we don\u2019t always want to go. Angie suggested by dreaming the story we actually get to visit a \u2018small place\u2019 and this means language is only one part of this world. It worked for me. Thanks Angie.<\/p>\n<p>I think the importance of believing in our own freshness, writing with the vitality of our own experiences,\u00a0 fuelled by our imaginations is priceless.<\/p>\n<p>So go on \u2013 take the risk.<\/p>\n<p>Write on\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>Donna Banicevich Gera<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Playwrights Association of New Zealand<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playwrights.org.nz\/\">http:\/\/www.playwrights.org.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Hi writers, As writers our task is to give our writing, our art, time. In early February I attended the Professing Creativity Conference at MasseyUniversity in Wellington. This conference saw the launch of the Aotearoa Creative Writing Research Network.\u00a0 I spent three days listening to some of New Zealand\u2019s most well-known creative writers speak about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts-subject"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}