About us
WE'RE BACK Y'ALL! Due to some recent donations by incredible supporters, VGVS is back on Meetup in 2026! We're so excited to share all our new free workshops, paid courses, events, challenges, and other programming, and we look forward to meeting and collaborating with many new creators in the months to come!
THIS IS THE EUROPE MEETUP GROUP! It's open to anyone anywhere but will include our online workshops and other events with times that work best in eastern hemisphere time zones such as London/BST, and zones within a few hours of GMT/UTC. If you're on the other side of the Atlantic, it's best to join the North America group for US/Canada time zones. If you are in or near Indianapolis, Indiana, you may want to join the Indy Chapter group instead so you will also see local events in that area!
VGVS NORTH AMERICA: https://www.meetup.com/vgvs-collective-north-america/
VGVS INDY: https://www.meetup.com/vgvs-collective-indy/
The Venturous Guild of Visionary Storysmiths (VGVS) is an international creative collective committed to growing a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative community of empowered artists. We are a nonprofit organization that provides free resources, workshops, mentorship, and safe spaces for creators to hone their skills, build their confidence, and share their stories. The Guild is open to teen and adult creators of any kind who work in any medium. Your passions may include writing & poetry, print & digital art, photography, film, music, fashion design, dance, theater & performing arts, graphic & game design, and more!
Our Discord server is our main communications hub where we come together from all over the world to hang out, inspire and motivate each other, and collaborate on projects! It's a super chill space where we can chat between workshops, share resources, get writing and art prompts, complete challenges, ask for help, share current work-in-progress for feedback, and more. Note that the majority of our free workshops and events such as weekly Creative Writing Discussions, bi-monthly Creativity Jam Sesh, and Moon Meditations on new and full moons happen IN the Discord server in The Tavern voice channel! Join the server anytime with this link: https://discord.gg/sFkekmBUEn
COMMUNITY IS RESISTANCE!
ART IS THE REVOLUTION!
Upcoming events
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Painted Poetry Prompts!
·OnlineOnlineHosted by Sophie, this interactive 90-minute workshop will focus on finding inspiration through a selection of traditional paintings. Each participant will get a randomly-selected prompt derived from a painting to work from. Although perfect for poetry, we also encourage all forms of creativity within this session – from doodles and collage, to poems, character descriptions, short stories and more. We will free-write for a short time before coming back together as a group and anyone can share their creations (no obligation to share if you don’t want to!).
What to bring: A pen and paper (or your preferred creating medium)
View the full events calendar here: https://www.vgvscollective.org/events
5 attendees
Creative Writing Discussion
·OnlineOnline90-minute Creative Writing Discussions will be held in our Discord server in THE TAVERN voice channel at a different time each Thursday to allow for writers in different time zones to participate at least once a month! Bring whatever projects you're working on to update everyone on your progress, ask for insight and feedback, and brainstorm ideas!
View the full events calendar here: https://www.vgvscollective.org/events
1 attendeeTavern Jam
·OnlineOnlineOur 2-hour Tavern Jam is twice a month on first and third Saturdays! This is a creativity jam sesh for all artists, writers, musicians, whatever! Pop in to get prompts, collab on projects, or just hang out and create stuff together!
View the full events calendar here: https://www.vgvscollective.org/events
2 attendeesQuick Creative Prompts!
·OnlineOnlineHosted by Sophie, this 1-hour workshop is for writers, poets, visual artists, and any creators that work in any medium! Drop-in, or stay for the full hour to get inspired with a slightly silly twist! This light-hearted session will provide each participant with one (or more) simple prompts, which can be used to inspire a poem, doodle or any other creative project. If you join for the whole session, you can write or make art while others receive their prompts and there will be some time at the end for anyone who wants to share their poem/art piece. Or you can simply drop in, get your prompt and log out – the choice is yours!
What to bring: A pen, paper and some whimsy!
View the full events calendar here: https://www.vgvscollective.org/events
3 attendees
Past events
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