Davoll’s General Store reading of A SouthCoast Anthology
Join us at Davoll’s General Store to hear readings from The Landscape About Us: A SouthCoast Anthology, a project of Midori Creativity along with the Westport Writers Group. The collection of essays, poetry, photography, and fiction explores themes of landscape, meaning, and life on the SouthCoast.
Westport Free Public Library reading of A SouthCoast Anthology
Join us at the Westport Free Public Library to hear readings from The Landscape About Us: A SouthCoast Anthology, a project of Midori Creativity along with the Westport Writers Group. The collection of essays, poetry, photography, and fiction explores themes of landscape, meaning, and life on the SouthCoast.
Inspirit Your Writing! A Workshop for Writers and Creators
Join bestselling author of "Uncertainty," Maggie Jackson, and creativity coach Midori Evans for a workshop exploring uncertainty.
Monthly Artists Share!
Join Artists Share! — the South Coast-based artist critique and discussion group hosted by Midori Creativity at the Co-Creative Center.
We welcome all artists and artist friends to come be part of the discussion. The group meets every month, aiming to help each other progress and grow in our work by sharing and exploring our art together. We laugh, share ideas, and have fun!
Exploring the Unknown with Creativity and Curiosity
The ANHW Boston Chapter Steering Committee invites you to join us on Wednesday, December 6th for Exploring the Unknown with Creativity and Curiosity: Tools for Recovery and Renewal — an exciting evening exploring how uncertainty and creativity can expand your thinking and enhance your life.
Meditations on Landscape III – Call for submissions!
Now accepting photography submissions for the third annual Meditations on Landscape exhibit, on show June 2024 at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery.
The Landscape About Us: A SouthCoast Anthology – Call for submissions!
Now accepting photography, writing and drawing submissions for The Landscape About Us: A SouthCoast Anthology.
WRITE WITH COMMUNITY
WRITE WITH COMMUNITY — encouraging writers to expand their geographic circle of community while building diverse creative networks. Writing workshops help creative voices speak. Meeting in person to do meaningful work offers the chance to share, grow, and feel energized.
Westport Writers Group
This is an ongoing writing group meeting at the Macomber Friends Community House (at Westport Friends Meeting).
Our meetings run for two hours. We write in silence for the first hour and then use the second hour to either read, share about our process, or pass! Sometimes we discuss larger themes about writing in general. Each gathering is a little different and we have a diverse set of writers working in a variety of genres, including memoir, historical works, flash fiction, poetry, and horror.
2023 SCA Open Studio Tours
South Coast Artists Open Studio Tours is back again this July & August! With over 60 artists in the South Coast of Massachusetts participating, Midori Evans, founder of Midori Creativity, is one of the artists opening her studio to share behind the scenes of her photography work.
Exploring your Creative Mission with Midori Evans: Session 3
In these sessions, founder of Midori Creativity, Midori Evans takes a deep look at where you are putting your energy and what lies ahead in your creative path. This last session, identifies key steps in a Creative Mission plan, how to re-evaluate as time goes by, and provides time for participants to work on their own in order to leave with concrete action steps.
Meet the Writers & Photographers – Meditations on Landscape
Reception & discussion with some of the participants in this year’s show. Stop by for a chance to have more in-depth conversations with some of the writers and photographers from Meditations on Landscape II. There will be time for a Q & A.
Learning Creativity: Cross Pollination among Genres – Meditations on Landscape talk
There’s an old idea that creativity comes in a burst of inspiration, reserved only for the geniuses among us. Yet creativity belongs to all of us! Come explore some ideas within the field of creativity research, especially those relating to how diverse groups of people spark new ways of thinking. Talk given by Midori Evans of Midori Creativity.
Opening Night – Meditations on Landscape
Opening night reception for Meditations on Landscape exhibition.
Look at landscapes with new eyes! Meditations on Landscape returns to Dedee Shattuck’s gallery this June 16 - 25.
Exploring your Creative Mission with Midori Evans: Session 2
In these sessions, founder of Midori Creativity, Midori Evans takes a deep look at where you are putting your energy and what lies ahead in your creative path. This Session 2, uses more in-depth writing to explore the attributes of the Creative Mission. What are some of the key descriptors? What are the parts that need to be set aside?
Exploring your Creative Mission with Midori Evans: Session 1
In these sessions, founder of Midori Creativity, Midori Evans takes a deep look at where you are putting your energy and what lies ahead in your creative path. This 1st Session looks at the questions: What is a Creative Mission? How can I best understand and connect with mine? Participants use writing, photo prompts, and partner sharing to find deep questions and begin to look at paths.
Cyanotypes and Sunprints workshop
Interested in photography and creative approaches? Did you know that cyanotypes are not only one of the oldest photographic processes but also one of the safest and easiest to learn? Come to this workshop to explore this alternative photo process family of cyanotypes, sunprints and photograms.
Spring Library Reading - Westport Writes Together
Join us on Saturday, April 29th at 1pm at the Westport Public Library to share or listen to work inspired by the spring Westport Writes Together prompt!
To sign up to read your submission, please email us at info@midoricreativity.com
All are welcome to share what they've written inspired by the Westport Writes! Spring prompt, no matter how short the piece, or young the author. Light refreshments provided.
Spring Writers' Gathering - Westport Writes Together
Join us on Monday, April 3rd at 4:30pm at the Westport Friends Meeting (Community House), for the WWT Spring Writers’ Gathering!
We will write together using the Spring Westport Writes Together prompt, sharing ideas and coming together as a creative community. All are welcome to join, no experience necessary.
Exploring Your Creative Mission
What creative pursuits are you currently engaged in? Art, cooking, business development? No matter what they are, Exploring Your Creative Mission takes a deep look at where you are putting your energy and what lies ahead in your creative path.
March Writers Gathering
Open writers group for folks looking for community to write with. We will provide prompts for those who want a little boost of inspiration, or you can bring something of your own to work on.
February Writers Gathering
Though our winter Westport Writes Together season has come to a close, we still want to make space for people to keep writing with community here in Westport.
At our Writers Group meeting on February 11th we will have a 45 minute writing period, with prompts provided – or you can work on something of your own.
Join us at the Community House @ Westport Friends Meeting on Saturday, February 11th from 1 to 2:30pm! Newcomers welcome.
Winter Library Reading - Westport Writes Together
Join us on Thursday, January 26th at 6:30pm at the Westport Public Library to share or listen to work inspired by the winter Westport Writes Together prompt!
To sign up to read your submission, please email us at info@midoricreativity.com
All are welcome to share what they've written inspired by the Westport Writes! winter prompt, no matter how short the piece, or young the author. Light refreshments provided.
Winter Writers' Gathering - Westport Writes Together
Join us on Saturday, January 14th at 2pm at the Westport Friends Meeting (Community House), for the WWT Winter Writers’ Gathering!
We will write together using the Winter Westport Writes Together prompt, sharing ideas and coming together as a creative community. All are welcome to join, no experience necessary.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Westport Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust administered by the Bank of America.
Monthly Artists Share!
Join Artists Share! — the South Coast-based artist critique and discussion group hosted by Midori Creativity at the Co-Creative Center.
Creativity Support Group
Are you seeking a place for community, learning and accountability with your creativity? We invite you to our Creativity Gathering Group, which meets twice a month on the first and fourth Tuesdays.
Fall reading at Westport Library
Join us on Saturday, November 12th at the Westport Public Library to hear what the fall season moves within your fellow Westport community members! There will be food and a social gathering as well :)
All are welcome to share what they've written inspired by the Westport Writes! fall prompt, no matter how short. We are thrilled to see what this beautiful, creative town thinks.
Westport Writes fall prompt:
"Fall prompts celebrate the changing of the leaves! Write of a gorgeous tree or a view in Westport of yellows, reds, and oranges."
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Westport Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust administered by the Bank of America.
Monthly Artists Share! with Midori Creativity
Join Artists Share! — the South Coast-based artist critique and discussion group hosted by Midori Creativity at the Co-Creative Center. The group meets every month, aiming to help each other progress and grow in our work by sharing and exploring our art together.
The Artist's Way Fall 2022 group
Are you yearning to reconnect with your artistic self? Feeling blocked? Commit to your artistic recovery through this program exploring The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, by Julia Cameron.
This twelve week course dives into our negative self-talk, the ways we can find our boundaries and autonomy again, the wonders and treats that can encourage our artist selves to come out of hiding, and more!
Making Friends With Your Work
Making Friends with Your Work explores the things that block us creatively and the reasons we stop working (even when we know we want to!). Through imagery, conversation, and writing, Making Friends with Your Work will help you understand your own blocks and find paths out of them.
Making Friends with Your Work focuses on the reasons we stop working creatively. We look at the myriad blocks we encounter, ask insightful and probing questions for attendees to answer, and engage together in a deep exploration of the facets of our creative work. We will use imagery, writing prompts, insightful questions, and supportive conversation to examine where we are, what blocks us, how to make friends with those blocks, and how to better understand our creative path.
Register for the event! It’s free!
SCA Open Studio Tours
The 2022 Tour will take place July 16-17 & August 20-21 from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SCA features two open studio tour weekends, typically the third weekend in July & August and includes up to 75 exhibiting artists to the four beautiful coastal towns of Tiverton, Little Compton, Westport and Dartmouth. Whether this is your first visit, or you’re a seasoned traveler to the South Coast, you’re sure to be impressed by the amazing quality and incredible range of creative work being produced in these scenic communities.
Join us at the Open Studio tour of Midori Evans! For the location of the studio tour, see Location #9 in the brochure at https://www.southcoastartists.org/open-studio-tours.
Venture Cafe Workshop: Exploring Your Creative Mission
With the guidance of Midori Creativity, take a deeper look into where you put your energy and what lies ahead in your creative path.