2022 Workshops
Virtual Film Workshop: History of Westerns and How to Filmulate with Brian Higgins
Wednesday, September 14th
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Free, Google Meet link below
Registration in the Film Competition not required to participate.
Join us for our first WILD WEIRD WACKY WESTERNS workshop and presentation.
Westerns have been one of the most popular film genres since the beginning of motion pictures.
In fact, one of the very first films was a cowboy shooting at the screen, which caused crowds to run from the theatre!
During this presentation we'll showcase some fan favorites and lesser known of the
wild, weird and wacky members of the genre to help inspire you on your own filmmaking
journey and cause crowds to run to the theatre and see it!
We'll also be giving an overview of the fest and how to get involved.
Presented in partnership with the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission
*Competition registration is free for Grand County and San Juan County Middle and High Schoolers.
Plein Air Workshops with Dustin Hardgrove
Monday, September 26th, 3:00 PM- 6:00 PM
Saturday, October 1st, 8:00AM - 11:00 AM
Locations: TBA
Plein air is the act of painting outdoors. Come explore the charms and frustrations of live painting outside! Learn specific skills and materials that can lend toward success in this challenging practice. These workshops are appropriate for all skill levels and artists over 14 years old. Oil painting materials will be provided. Experienced painters are encouraged to bring their own materials. The workshop will focus on Oil Paint, but any medium is welcome. Beginner artists will be encouraged to draw in charcoal.
The workshop is free but registration is required, limit of 12 people per session.
About the instructor: Dustin Hardgrove discovered art practice at nearly 30 years old, after many years spent contemplating and writing about philosophy and critical theory. Art appeared as a new and appropriate avenue to explore ideas of nature, environmental devastation, existence and resistence. He is a working class artist whose creative process has blossomed in the free hours aside from labor as a fine carpenter. The ethics of hard work and precise craftsmanship have all transferred into his practice as a studio and outdoor painter. Dustin attended classes at the Art Students League of Denver from 2012-2019; and was mentored by notable artists Kevin Wechback and Ron Hicks.
www.dhardgrove.com
IG @hardgrove_d
Virtual Film Workshop: Filmmaking Tips with Brian Higgins
Wednesday, September 21st
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Free, Google Meet link below
Registration in the Film Competition not required to participate.
Join us for our 2nd WILD WEIRD WACKY WESTERNS workshop and presentation.
Whether you have signed up for the competition or are still thinking about it, this is the time to jump in and get the filmmaking tips and tricks to help you make the best film but also have the best time doing it! We'll go over everything that is Filmulate.
From the beginning to the middle to the end. From storytelling to uploading and everything in between.
Presented in partnership with the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission
*Competition registration is free for Grand County and San Juan County Middle and High Schoolers.
Thursday, October 6th
11:30AM-1:30 PM
Location: The MARC (111 E 100 N)
Free, registration not required
CANCELED—Poetry Workshop: Uncommon Time with
Shari Zollinger
Could we say that as a community it’s been an uncommon time? Yet, to speak is to speak for yourself. What has been your relationship to time? Has time shown up as shapeshifter, one day elongated, the next day in short supply? Would you say your concept of time changed over these past few years or more broadly, when have you recognized an era of your life when time played a lead role?
In lieu of this workshop's cancellation, please feel free to explore the following "uncommon time" prompts independently: What is time to a body, how do we feel it and what tools do we use to measure it? Can we think of time as an absurd tender, frightening commodity, playful passage, pup wriggling or sandbar receding? If you’ve seen time, not visualized, I mean you’ve seen it. What was that vision? In what habitat do you make time your domain? What is an interruption? What is it to share time? Where does time go? Consider time as healer, mender, separator, connecter, individual or collective: recorded, acknowledged, curious, off beat, funky, weird, unexpected, unfamiliar, unconventional, rare, framed, spaced, shared, coveted.
About the instructor: Native of Utah, Shari Zollinger has a BS in History from Utah State University. She spent six years of her life living in Taiwan, part of that time spent attending the Stanford Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei. Her love of language has directly inspired her work as a poet. Her poems have appeared in the Sugar House Review, Redactions: Poetry and Poetics, and The Desert Voice. Her book, Carrying Her Stone was inspired by the works of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel. She works at Back of Beyond Books in Moab, Utah as their lead buyer.