A Program in Partnership with the Thoreau Society
Author talks and writing workshops that encourage critical thinking and perceptive writing about the world and ourselves.
Fall 2024
Using Nature’s Playbook
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
7pm
Thoreau Farm and online
$5/ person to attend in person. FREE to attend online. Registration Required.
LIT brings in voices from 40 interviewees including Nobel laureates, Olympic medalists, social justice leaders, an indigenous leader, celebrated artists, and multiple scientists and inventors who have managed to disengage from life on autopilot by activating the brain’s inherent power to undergo transformative change.
Followed By the Lark: Author Helen Humphreys in conversation with Jeffrey S. Cramer
Sunday, October 6, 2024
2pm
Thoreau Farm and online
$15/ person to attend in person. $5/person to attend online. Registration Required.
Co-sponsored by The Walden Woods Project
Inspired by the life, letters, and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, Followed by the Lark shows how strikingly similar the concerns of the early nineteenth century are to our own, and reminds us to listen for news of change: the song of spring’s first bluebird, reports from those who have heard it, and all the sounds and fearful wonders that come after.
Writing Your Story in the Woods
A two-day transformative memoir workshop with Dr. Barbara Mossberg
October 26 & 27, 2024
$200/person
Registration Required
No story is like yours — and your telling it is powerful and necessary. Join this workshop to find your woods and tell your story.
In this two-day workshop, national memoirist & distinguished teacher Dr. Barbara Mossberg invites you “to the woods” — a place to find focus, inspiration, connection, and support for developing your memoir. Experiments, prompts and exercises in this workshop are designed to invite, inquire, and invoke your own “woods” through Thoreau’s lens of living purposefully.
An Exuberant Evening with Barbara Mossberg
Saturday, October 26, 2024
6pm
Thoreau Farm and online
$5/ person to attend in person. Free to attend online. Registration Required. Free for Dr. B’s Writing Your Story In the Woods Summer and Fall 2024 workshop participants and past program alumni.
Join a magical evening of poignancy and lift in performance arts at Thoreau Farm with resident inspiration Dr. Barbara Mossberg. The presentations are followed by a reception.
We Take Our Cities With Us: A Conversation with Sorayya Khan
Sunday, November 3, 2024
2pm
At Thoreau Farm and online.
FREE. Registration required.
Even when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch heritage in a multicultural memoir that unfolds over seven cities and three continents.
Thoreau’s God: An Evening with Author Richard Higgins
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
7pm
First Parish in Concord
$10/ person. Registration Required.
Co-sponsored by The Transcendentalism Council of First Parish in Concord.
In Thoreau’s God, Richard Higgins invites seekers—religious or otherwise—to walk with the great Transcendentalist through a series of meditations on his spiritual life. Thoreau offers us no creed, but his writings encourage reflection on how to live, what to notice, and what to love. Though his quest was deeply personal, Thoreau devoted his life to communicating his experience of an infinite, wild, life-giving God. By recovering this vital thread in Thoreau’s life and work, Thoreau’s God opens the door to a new understanding of an original voice in American religion that speaks to spiritual seekers today.
All registration fees for Write Connection at Thoreau Farm programs are non-refundable.
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