VIRTUAL WRITERS ROOM
The Townies’ Virtual Writers Room is a weekly, hour-long virtual workshop for those looking to write, laugh and share their experiences in a community, without a deadline for performance/publication.
Offered at a lesser rate than our 10-Week Workshops and paid monthly ($60/month paid on or before the first class of each month), the flexibility of this workshop will hopefully allow a wider range of folks to participate. Scholarships are available!
WRITERS ROOM,
MONDAYS
7 - 8PM
The first class of the new cycle will meet on the first Monday of the month. New students will convene at 6:45PM, giving an extra 15 minutes to go over the rules of class and to answer any questions.
Students added after the first of the month will begin class at the beginning of the next cycle.
Click the button below to get info or to sign up.
WRITERS ROOM, WEDNESDAYS
9 - 10AM
The first class of the new cycle will meet on the first Wednesday of the month. New students will convene at 8:45AM, giving an extra 15 minutes to go over the rules of class and to answer any questions.
Students added after the first of the month will begin class at the beginning of the next cycle.
Click the button below to get info or to sign up.
WRITERS ROOM, THURSDAYS
9 - 10AM
The first class of the new cycle will meet on the first Thursday of the month. New students will convene at 8:45AM, giving an extra 15 minutes to go over the rules of class and to answer any questions.
Students added after the first of the month will begin class at the beginning of the next cycle.
Click the button below to get info or to sign up.
*Scholarships available. CLICK HERE to donate a scholarship.
KIM’S 10-WEEK WORKSHOPS
More of Kim’s beloved 10-Week Workshops coming soon. Click the button below to let us know you’re interested!
*Scholarships available. CLICK HERE to donate a scholarship.
WHAT CLASS IS:
Every once in awhile we feel like a million bucks. Confident... prepared... relaxed... sure in the choices we’ve made…
For the most part though, most of us are just wishing we felt that way.
Unfortunately, you can’t create anything from where you wish you were. It’s not real. And it's not relatable. I mean, what kind of a movie goes like this: Everything was good, all the time, forever…? What kind of speech starts with: I’m really confident and popular and always have been…?
So then… How do you get up and perform, speak, present at your best every single time – even on those days when you feel like you just can’t? On those days when you feel like you aren’t good enough?
That’s what my class is.
My class is getting up on the stage, by yourself, as yourself, and starting with where you are. Class is three hours once a week for ten weeks of writing and delving and excavating and developing your words (the good, the bad, the wait-NO-I’m-not-ready-yet) and putting them out there even when thoughts of “not worthy” are running through your mind.
It’s sort of like emotional weight lifting.
Class is also a safe place. A place where you will meet with a group of other like-minded folks – terrified of not being enough. And you will inspire each other, hold a place for each other and put your words and hearts out into the room with each other. And you will develop skill and muscle and great stories and appreciation for it all: the good, the bad, the wait-NO-I’m-not-ready-yet.
Then, at the end of 10 weeks, you’re going to fling your crafted story out into an audience and wait for them to hand it back to you. And you won’t know what that’s going to be until it happens. And it will be magic.
"Anyone who could be blessed to spend 10 weeks with the company of Kim and her supplicants will never be the same. No one leaves this class without being enhanced… People come to this class bewildered and leave with wings sprouting from their hearts.
“Ojai bristles with offers to teach acting, writing, mime, etc. They advertise, ‘our students found employment after class,’ ‘you will be able to give a noontime speech...’. For Ms. Maxwell, our success is measured by ourselves, knowing we have examined ourselves and respected our stories."
-John Dobroth, V.C. Superior Court Judge (Retired), KMS Student