Registration is open!
- Early Bird rate: $590 until April 30, 2024
- Regular rate: $630 starting May 1, 2024
Week 1 (ages 11 – 14): July 14th – 19th, 2024
Week 2 (ages 15 – 19): July 21st – 26th, 2024
Location: Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP), Red Deer, AB
T-shirt: $25
Anthology: $12
WordsWorth is a week-long sleepover creative writing residency for young writers who believe in the power of words. Writers will be completely immersed in the creative and diverse world of writing. Guided by established and respected artist-instructors, writers will experience writing through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, spoken word, music, and more. But the experiences don’t begin and end with the classes; WordsWorth is a place where young writers come together to celebrate writing through friendship, campfires, concerts, open mic sessions, hikes, haiku, and semi-competitive games outside of class.
2024 Instructors & Courses
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“The Writer’s Voice”
Writing is a solitary art. Surprise, you are called on to read your expressive output out loud! Maybe you just want to feel more comfortable around other humans? Maybe you like acting? If so, this is the class for you! This fun and empowering class is about discovering and embodying your full vocal and creative potential. Our goal is open, honest, powerful, joyful communication. Please wear comfortable, loose, stretchy clothing and have water, pencil and paper handy. Participants are invited (completely optional) to bring a favourite speech, monologue, song or poem with which to work. Let’s GO!
DAVID WILSON (BMus, Mmus) is a Singer, Conductor, Voice Teacher, Yoga Guru and Breath Therapist. He is recognized across Canada as a leading authority on the use of Yoga, Functional Vocal Work and Breath Therapy to aid healthy vocal production. He offers workshops to singers, public speakers, teachers, actors and spoken word poets on vocal power, creative freedom, confidence, anxiety relief, and public speaking. He has self-published six outstanding eBooks and Videos, including “The Embodied Voice”. David is also a Sessional Instructor for the Theatre Arts BFA program at MacEwan University.
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MIRANDA KROGSTAD is a spoken word poet and educator who uses her words to empower students of all ages and walks of life. Teaching life skills including self-confidence, self-expression, and community-building, she has performed workshops in over a dozen cities around the province.
Outside of the formal educational setting, Krogstad is an advocate for positivity and love in the spoken word community and beyond, performing on subject matter from mental health awareness to gender equality. Krogstad was a member of the 2016 national wild card team, a two-time Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient, a Calgary Arts Development Grant Recipient, and a participant in the Banff Centre International Spoken Word Program. She has since founded the organization YYSpeak to promote and support Calgarian spoken word poets and events.
2024 Creative Team & Staff
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COLIN MATTY (Camp Director) has been with the Writer’s Guild of Alberta since 2012, becoming the Director of Drink the Wild Air and WordsWorth in 2015. He is the author of three plays, two sketch comedies, and thousands of poems. Colin has tread the boards of festivals and competitions from Victoria to Montreal and is an accomplished creator, performer and educator in the fields of theatre, poetry, and improvisation. His work has a strong focus on playful discovery and aims to foster the joy that comes with engaging the creative powers that lie latent within us all.
HENRY GREYSON is a storytelling animator based out of Kelowna, BC. He’s been working in the 3D animation game for the past 6 years creating animations for a wide variety of studios and productions. He’s worked in his free time developing his own stories and skills, and can’t wait to share them with you at WordsWorth 2024 DRAGONSONG!!!
KAJA PEDERSEN is a writer, crafter, and wanderer, coming to a forest-dwelling near you. She is originally from Calgary, and grew up on the traditional lands of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda. She is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria and studies History and Creative Writing, with special interests in 19th and 20th Century queer history, personal journalism, and fiction. Kaja is always looking for friends to meet, tunes to hum, games to play, crafts to make, and toadstools big enough to sit on.