Art Workshops New York
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Art Club November
Thu, Nov 26, 12:00 AMHello! Come join us at Trend Coffee (we will be at the big table in the far back) Basic art supplies will be provided, but most members bring their own personal projects they’ve been working on. This is not required. I (Katie the host) have been known to just doodle the whole time. Our #1 goal is to make new friends within the NJ artist community. We are very chatty and laugh a lot! Feel free to RSVP or just show up. **this is not a networking event**
Buddhist Iconography Painting Workshop
Sat, Nov 14, 12:00 AM## **FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13** ### **Time: 7 – 9pm** ### **Teacher: Grady Barker and Kadam Kyle Davis** ### **Cost: Free for members, $20 for non-members** Join us for our third annual art night! We will be painting SEED LETTERS! The minds of Buddhas appear as these sacred symbols. By understanding and meditating on the letters, we can develop a profound understanding of the spiritual path. We will begin with a short talk explaining the symbols. Next, our experienced art instructor will share some essential painting skills. Finally, you’ll have time to choose one or more symbols to paint yourself! All painting supplies are included in the admission price. Registration is limited, so please sign up early to guarantee a slot. Everyone is welcome.
Visual Composition: Nov 14, Saturday 10:45am. In-person: Outdoor
Sat, Nov 14, 3:45 PMJoin us for [Visual Composition Seminar: (1 session): Nov 14, Saturday 10:45 AM-12:30 PM. In-person: Outdoors](https://www.photomanhattan.com/product-p/se-cfb.i-01.3.htm "Visual Composition Seminar: (1 session): Nov 14, Saturday 10:45 AM-12:30 PM. In-person: Outdoors, SE-CFB.i-01.3"). $ 135 Meetup RSVPs don't reflect the number of attendees as most Registrations come from our site: https://www.photomanhattan.com Courses are limited to 8-15 people depending on the course. **This workshop is fully outdoors..** Meeting location is at Union Square / Chelsea. The exact location will be emailed to you prior to class. **Framing and Composition.** Improve your imagery with this 2-hour seminar! This 2-hour photography class will cover common tricks and tips for shooting street shots, lighting control techniques, focus, background, perspective, and many more quick techniques that will instantly become handy for your next travel, candid, or city shots. Opened to all levels. Requirements: Any cameras, phones, Point and Shoot, Mirrorless, DSLR, or film. Basic knowledge of your camera's function is recommended. (In manual or Automatic Mode). Note, If you are enrolled in our Creative Photography course, you don't need this seminar, as this material will be covered during your course. Outdoors sessions are in Union Square / Chelsea. You can find other available photo classes checkout our site: http://www.photomanhattan.com/photography-classes-nyc-s/1814.htm Only registered attendees will be allowed. Thanks!
Visual, Composition : Nov 14-Dec 12 , Sat. 10:45am. In-person
Sat, Nov 14, 3:45 PM[Visual Composition & Storytelling Classes (4 sessions): Nov 14-Dec 12 , Saturdays 10:45 AM-12:30 PM. (No class on 11/28) In-person: Outdoors](https://www.photomanhattan.com/product-p/co-dp3.i-01.1.htm "Visual Composition & Storytelling Classes (4 sessions): Nov 14-Dec 12 , Saturdays 10:45 AM-12:30 PM. (No class on 11/28) In-person: Outdoors, CO-DP3.i-01.1") $375 \* Meetup RSVPs don't reflect the number of attendees as most Registrations come from our site: https://www.photomanhattan.com **This workshop is fully Outdoors.** Except, in specific instances such as rain / drizzle, it will be partially indoors or rescheduled. **Meeting location will be in Union Square Park or the Highline (at 14th street).** **👁️ VISUAL COMPOSITION & STORYTELLING:** The Art of Seeing Light and Design This is where your creative photography takes over. Master composition rules (Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines) and learn how to break them to forge your own artistic style. Focus on visual design elements like perspective, color theory, and dynamic framing. **What You Will Master:** \* **Compositional Rules**: Master essential composition techniques, including the **Rule of Thirds**, **Leading Lines**, **Symmetry**, and **Negative Space**. \* **Design Elements**: Focus on visual design elements such as **perspective**, **color theory**, **dynamic framing**, **pattern**, and **texture** to make every image captivating. \* **Creative Vision**: Develop your individual style and learn to identify and execute complex concepts that transform a snapshot into a compelling piece of visual storytelling. \* **Hands-On Practice**: In-class assignments and critiques focused on developing and refining your unique creative vision. This course marks the shift from simply operating a camera to truly creating art. Master the foundational rules of composition and learn when and how to break them to forge your own unique artistic style. Learn to communicate complex ideas and emotions through the frame. **Requirements & Notes:** \* **Requirements**: Any camera (DSLR, Mirrorless, or advanced Point & Shoot). \* **Assumed Knowledge**: Basic familiarity with camera operation.
Write the Role Only You Can Play: A Self-Made Actor Lab™ Intensive
Tue, Nov 17, 11:30 PM# **ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP** You became an actor to tell stories—not to spend your entire career waiting for someone else to give you permission to tell one. **Self-Made Actor Lab™** is an intimate, hands-on intensive for actors who are ready to stop waiting for the perfect role and begin creating work of their own. Led by award-winning actress and filmmaker **Sakinah Iman**, this workshop will help you identify the experiences, perspectives and natural talents that make you uniquely compelling—and begin transforming them into an original cinematic monologue written specifically for **you**. This isn't about writing a random scene just so you have something to perform. **Your life is creative material.** Your humor. Your heartbreak. Your culture. Your relationships. Your contradictions. Your career. Your weirdness. Your talents. The things you've survived. The things you can't stop talking about. Those are often the very things that give an artist a point of view. Sakinah's own career changed when she stopped waiting for someone to write the perfect role for her and began creating films around her own voice, talents and lived experiences. **Now she'll teach you how to begin doing the same.** *** # **WHAT YOU'LL LEARN** ### **1\. Find the Story Only You Can Tell** Through guided exercises, you'll explore your experiences, perspective, personality and natural talents to uncover material that could become compelling original work. Maybe you're also a dancer, rapper, comedian, athlete, martial artist, musician, parent, chef, poet—or you simply carry a life experience and perspective nobody else can reproduce. You'll learn to ask: **What makes *me* interesting before I ever step into character?** ### **2\. Turn Your Truth Into a Cinematic Monologue** You'll learn how to take raw personal material and begin shaping it into a structured monologue with character, stakes, conflict, specificity and emotional movement. The goal isn't simply to tell your life story. It's to transform truth into **cinematic storytelling.** ### **3\. The Art of Believability** A powerful monologue isn't just about the words. It's about whether we believe you. We'll explore performance choices that can help personal material feel lived rather than recited, including emotional connection, specificity, listening, intention and truthful on-camera behavior. ### **4\. Stop Thinking Only Like an Actor\. Start Thinking Like a Creator\.** What happens when you stop seeing yourself only as the person auditioning for someone else's project? You'll learn how self-created work can become an artistic and career asset—and how actors can begin thinking like the writers, producers and creative executives of their own material rather than waiting exclusively for auditions. ### **5\. Film Festivals: What Happens After You Make the Film?** Creating the work is only part of the journey. You'll learn the fundamentals of positioning and submitting an independent short film to festivals, including festival fit, submissions, materials and how to begin building a strategic festival plan. And just as importantly: **What do you do with the film after you've made it?** We'll discuss ways original work can support your reel, artistic brand, online presence and future opportunities. *** # **WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH** By the end of the intensive, you'll leave with: * A clearer understanding of your unique artistic point of view * A personal story or concept selected for development * The foundation/draft of an original cinematic monologue * A framework for developing that monologue into a short film * A beginner-friendly understanding of film festival strategy * A clearer plan for using self-created work to increase your visibility as an actor *** # **LEARN FROM AN ACTOR WHO CHOSE HERSELF** **Sakinah Iman** is an NYC actress, writer, director and producer with nearly two decades of acting and performance experience and more than a decade of independent filmmaking experience. After years of working as an actor, Sakinah began creating original vehicles that showcased her own voice and talents rather than waiting for someone else to create those opportunities for her. Her work has since earned **28 film festival awards, screened at more than 70 film festivals worldwide, and been licensed and distributed on major television and streaming platforms, including Showtime, Paramount+, Hulu, Apple TV and Prime Video.** Her spoken-word short film, *He Wants to Know My Number*, grew directly from her own voice and lived experience—one example of what can happen when an actor stops asking, *“What role will someone give me?”* and starts asking: **“What can I create that only I could make?”** But this workshop isn't about teaching you to copy Sakinah's story. **It's about helping you discover yours.** *** # **WHO THIS IS FOR** This workshop is for the actor who knows they're capable of more than the opportunities they've been given. The actor who's tired of waiting for the “right” role. The actor whose current reel doesn't capture the full depth of what they can do. The multidisciplinary artist who has another gift—music, dance, poetry, comedy, athletics, martial arts, writing or something completely unexpected—and has never considered building original work around it. And the actor who knows they have something to say but hasn't yet figured out how to turn it into a story. **You don't have to wait for someone else to write the role that finally lets people see you.** **You can write it yourself.** *This is intentionally a small-group experience so there is room for discussion, writing and individual exploration. Space is limited.*
Paint In Central Park - A Bucket List Event
Sun, Nov 22, 6:00 PMGet tickets at: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/878650696887](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/878650696887) You're invited to this fun, creative, social, and fun event! We will be painting in Central Park under the guidance of a master artist! Please bring something to sit on (towel is fine). IMPORTANT NOTE: CLICKING THE "RSVP AND PAY ORGANIZER DIRECTLY BUTTON" ON MEETUP DOES NOT GET YOU A TICKET/SPOT. YOU HAVE TO CLICK THE LINK TO THE EVENTBRITE PAGE AND PURCHASE A TICKET THERE. PRICE GOES UP AS EVENT TIME APPROACHES AND MAY SELL OUT SO GET YOUR TICKET ON EVENTBRITE ASAP. Included: a pre-sketched canvas, unlimited painting materials (brushes, acrylic paints etc.) and a take home bag. We do not give out smocks so please dress appropriately. Come on out, make new friends and paint a great canvas under the guidance of a master artist! Bring your own food and/or wine or whatever cocktails you'd like. This is a BYOB so bring your drinks & snacks - have yourself a picnic while getting instruction for painting! If you are bringing certain types of "drinks", please be discreet in Central Park 🙂 *DIRECTIONS TO FIND THE GROUP:* *We are located in a cul-de-sac at PINETUM EAST. We will be behind this row of benches (right under the trees). If you are coming from the east side you can find us by entering Central Park on East 84th street. Walk up the ramp, cross over the road and head west. If you are traveling from the west side we are east of the basketball courts. We will email you with more precise instructions after you sign up.* What to expect: • Step-by-step, group-oriented painting instruction, which is designed to simultaneously entertain and enlighten our members. • We'll have a professional artist guide you through a featured painting that is yours to keep and proudly display. And don’t worry — no experience is necessary. • 2 hour course lead that teaches you the art of mixing colors, blending and painting techniques. • All supplies provided - 12x16 pre-sketched canvas, unlimited acrylic paint (water based), brushes, and aprons. This is going to be a fun time!!!!!! FAQs: What if it rains? We will email attendees a rain date. How many are attending? Up to 20 people. Can I still attend If I don't know how to paint? Yes, there's no experience necessary. Can I come alone? Yes, about 80% come on their own. Is this age specific? No, all are welcome. THIS IS A MULTI-MEETUP GROUP EVENT. 15 OTHER GROUPS HAVE ALSO BEEN INVITED SO WE'LL BE SURE TO HAVE A GOOD SIZE TURNOUT. THE RSVP LIST ON MEETUP REFLECTS ONLY A SMALL PORTION OF ATTENDEES. ***\*\*\*\* SEE MORE UPCOMING NYC AREA EVENTS AT [WWW.FRIENDZYEVENTS.COM](http://www.friendzyevents.com) \*\*\*\**** Get tickets at: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/878650696887](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/878650696887)
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