A great way to start writing, jump start your stalled writing, or push your writing to a new level.

Join a new session of an ongoing creative writing workshop, which evolved out of a University of Toronto Creative Writing course.

Registration required: email registration@mayworks.ca

This year Mayworks is pleased to offer writing workshops from two performers that are part of the opening night line-up, What's Becoming of Our City?. If you were inspired by what you heard, wonder how you too can capture the subtleness and depth of emotion using only words, these workshops will provide you with the tools you need.

Facilitated by Motion, from lyrics to rhymes, spoken word and poetry, scribology is the art of verbal poetics: transforming words from the mind to a page, through a mic, off the tongue, on stage. The Art of Scribology workshop will bring your word/flows to life - this will be a lively and active session!

Join Arnaldo Perez, Ernest Chiasson, Jocelyne Verret, Monika Igali, Pedro Rodriguez de los Santos, Therezinha Kennedy and others for an evening of readings by participants attending "Creative Writing for the Second Language Writer," a course facilitated by Jacqueline Dumas and offered by the Writers Guild of Alberta in partnership with Writers Beyond Borders. Everyone welcome!

Body and Soul is a series of interdisciplinary workshops is led by Dr. Norman Cornett, and features renowned jazz musicians and visual artists ranging from Branford Marsalis to Sue Adams. The series encourages creative thinking through an experiential approach to the arts. This alternative method includes listening to music and viewing art with unconventional techniques, writing reflections, and going on cultural excursions. Participants will also be given the opportunity to engage in discussions and sit down one-on-one with guest artists for a "dialogic" session about their creative vision. No background or previous knowledge in the arts is required.