S20 MFAW-VT Residency: Full Schedule

Residency Notices

Social Justice Statement by the Goddard Circle of Councils

Vermont Semester Dates & Deadlines

1:00pm EST

New Student Check-in

At Check-in, students receive important residency information and access to their dorm room. All students and graduates need to check in whether staying on campus or not.

Wednesday January 1, 2020 1:00pm - Thursday January 2, 2020 9:00am EST
Help Desk

Logistics, Checkin/Out

5:45pm EST

Dinner (Bring trays to Silo Conference Room, CC 200)

Wednesday January 1, 2020 5:45pm - 7:00pm EST
Silo Conference Room

Meals

7:45am EST

Breakfast

Thursday January 2, 2020 7:45am - 9:00am EST
Dining Hall

Meals

9:30am EST

New Student Orientation (NSO): Academic Orientation: Part One (The Residency)

Elena will walk you through the residency experience—tell you what to expect and how to make the most of your time. There will also be time to take your questions. Required for all G1s. (1 hour)

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Thursday January 2, 2020 9:30am - 10:15am EST
Silo Conference Room

Workshops, New Student Orientation

10:30am EST

NSO: Welcome to the Community

This workshop will establish your community as new students, as well as give you a sense of the larger college-wide community that supports you. We will also take a group photo for archival records. (1.5 hours)

Speakers

Community Life Staff

Thursday January 2, 2020 10:30am - 12:00pm EST
Silo Conference Room

Workshops, New Student Orientation

11:45am EST

Lunch

Thursday January 2, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

1:00pm EST

Returning Student Check-in

At Check-in, students receive important residency information and access to their dorm room. All students and graduates need to check in whether staying on campus or not.

Thursday January 2, 2020 1:00pm - Friday January 3, 2020 11:00am EST
Help Desk

Logistics, Checkin/Out

1:30pm EST

NSO: Academic and Residential Supports Available to Students

We will review academic & residency supports available to all students. We will also review services for students with disabilities (including food allergies/sensitivities) and how to access them. This workshop is required for all new students. (45 min)

Speakers

Suzy Shedd

Access Support Coordinator, Goddard College

As Access Support Coordinator, Suzy gets to develop accommodations for students with disabilities, and build supports that improve access for all students. She also provides coaching in time management and study skills to all students, regardless of disability status. Come see her... Read More →

Thursday January 2, 2020 1:30pm - 2:15pm EST
Silo Lounge

Workshops, New Student Orientation

1:30pm EST

Faculty Meeting

Thursday January 2, 2020 1:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Clockhouse

Meetings, Faculty

2:45pm EST

NSO: Introduction to IT Services and Resources

We will present an overview of information technology resources and services at Goddard. We provide a comprehensive overview of your Program Page and other online based resources here at Goddard. We will also step you through the process of accessing the Goddard wireless networks and activating your student accounts on our various systems. Please bring your personal laptop or other computing device you plan to use during residency. (45 min)

Speakers

Trevor Utton

Data Support Specialist, Goddard College

Thursday January 2, 2020 2:45pm - 3:30pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, New Student Orientation

3:45pm EST

Individual IT Support for New Students

Thursday January 2, 2020 3:45pm - 4:15pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, New Student Orientation

4:15pm EST

Free Time for New Students

Now's a good time to make some notes, practice some skills, organize your papers, look through the residency schedule for readings or materials to prepare. Or take a nap! You've already absorbed a lot and more is coming. Grab a yoga mat (there are a few on loan at the help desk) and start to imagine what shape your residency will take.

Thursday January 2, 2020 4:15pm - 5:45pm EST
NA

5:45pm EST

Dinner

Thursday January 2, 2020 5:45pm - 7:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

7:00pm EST

Welcome for New and Returning Students and Faculty

We will gather for dessert after dinner for a brief welcome.

Thursday January 2, 2020 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Activities, Welcome

8:15pm EST

Student-Initiated Group Meetings

12-Step Fellowship, LGBTQ, Interfaith, movement, meditation or other self–facilitated gatherings are encouraged. The Help Desk and Student Life staff will be glad to help guide you to the best times, locations and resources to support your gathering. Meeting information will be posted on the CC Residency Board.

Thursday January 2, 2020 8:15pm - 10:00pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Meetings, Student

7:45am EST

Breakfast

Friday January 3, 2020 7:45am - 9:00am EST
Dining Hall

Meals

9:00am EST

Free Time for New Students

Grab it while you can, and if you are organized, rested and stretched, don't forget this is a generative, creative week. Keep a notebook for your thoughts, ideas, questions, epiphanies and stray bits of advice (even overheard). If you are hearing voices, or getting visions, write them down. And if you are looking for something to do, try some free writing on your goals for the week, for the program, and then write: "Now I know"... finish the sentence (without thinking about it!) and keep going!

Friday January 3, 2020 9:00am - 10:30am EST
NA

9:00am EST

Faculty Meeting with Dean Steve James

Steve James: 9-11 am. Steve will be with us for 2 of our 3 hours.

Friday January 3, 2020 9:00am - 12:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Meetings, Faculty

9:30am EST

Registration (Required for All New Students. Required for Returning Students who have not completed pre-registration)

In order to complete enrollment for the semester, all students are required to register. Returning students who are cleared academically and financially can pre-register via SIS; then complete the final step of registration at the Help Desk upon check-in. Returning students who are not able to pre-register must come to the in-person registration to resolve any academic or financial obligations, then will be registered by the Registrar’s Office.

New students are required to attend registration to 1) Finalize any outstanding admissions paperwork. 2) Verify emergency contact and FERPA paperwork with the Registrar Office. 3) Complete student account and financial aid office paperwork. 4) Receive a student ID from the Registrar Office. 5) Complete final enrollment with the Registrar Office.

There is a $100 late registration fee for any student not registered or checked in by 11:00 am. Any returning student who needs a replacement I.D. card ($5 replacement fee) can obtain one at registration or by visiting the Registrar Office during the residency. Please feel free to contact the Registrar's Office for additional assistance (registrar@goddard.edu).

Speakers

Annette Fitzgerald

Registrar, Goddard College

jillehn

Registrar, Goddard College

Friday January 3, 2020 9:30am - 11:00am EST
CC 207, Media Room

Logistics, Registration

10:45am EST

NSO: Library Skills Lab

Tour the library and learn how to use the library's website, catalog, research guides and databases in this interactive workshop. Develop your research skills and acquire useful strategies to ease the burden of conducting research. Learn how to access, evaluate and use information resources effectively and ethically. A demo of free citation management software will also be provided to help you organize and cite your sources efficiently. Bring your own laptop or mobile device if you have them, or use one of our desktop computers in the lab. Outside the workshop, students may schedule an appointment with a librarian for additional assistance. Required for new students, but returning students are also welcome to attend! (1 hour)

Speakers

Clara Bruns

Director of Information Access, Goddard College

Friday January 3, 2020 10:45am - 11:45am EST
Pratt Computer Lab

Workshops, New Student Orientation

11:45am EST

Lunch

Friday January 3, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

1:00pm EST

Opening Session

Friday January 3, 2020 1:00pm - 2:15pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Plenary, Opening Session

2:30pm EST

Returning (Spring 2019) Advising Groups Meet

Find out how the semester went for your group, reflect on your own learning, share advice and wisdom with others about to embark on the semester you just finished, find the synergies among you - creatively and in critical writing - and make a commitment to keep on being a resource for each other. (Oh, and say goodbye or thank you to your advisor too!)

Friday January 3, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm EST
Advising Group Locations

Advising, Advising Groups

2:30pm EST

NSO: Academic Orientation: Part Two (The Semester)

Elena will walk you through your semester, offer you sample Semester Study Plans and Sample Study Plans as a Whole. She will also talk about the expectations of a G1 semester and packet protocol. There will also be time to take your questions. Required for all G1s. (1 hour)

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Friday January 3, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm EST
Silo Conference Room

Workshops, New Student Orientation

3:30pm EST

Advising Assignments Posted

Friday January 3, 2020 3:30pm - 3:30pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Advising, Advising Activities

3:30pm EST

Student Reading Sign-Up Sheets Posted

Watch out for the sign up sheets! The first student reading is this evening. These are a great opportunity to try something out, get feedback, and find your people. Don't be shy.

Friday January 3, 2020 3:30pm - 3:30pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Logistics, Sign up, Student Reading

3:45pm EST

New students (G1s Only) meet with their advisors

Just a quick meet and greet, so there is nothing to prepare. You'll be diving into your work with your advisor and your group tomorrow. This is a chance to say hello to your advisor if you haven't already met, and get any burning questions answered.

Friday January 3, 2020 3:45pm - 4:15pm EST
Advising Group Locations

Advising, Advising Activities

Audience G1

4:00pm EST

Graduating Student Final Product Approval and Paperwork Clean-up

In order to receive a diploma at graduation, graduating students must complete the following by 4:00 pm: 1) The final product must be submitted and approved by the advisor and second reader in SIS 2) All end of semester student evaluations must be submitted in SIS 3) If applicable, all course equivalents must be submitted and approved in SIS 4) Any Student Account balance must be addressed 5) All materials must be returned to the Library. Please contact the Registrar's Office for assistance.

Friday January 3, 2020 4:00pm - 4:00pm EST
SIS (electronically)

Logistics, Deadlines, Graduates

4:15pm EST

Faculty Union Meeting: Bread & Roses

Please note location change.

Friday January 3, 2020 4:15pm - 6:15pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Meetings, Faculty

5:15pm EST

Office Hours with Program Director, Elena Georgiou

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Friday January 3, 2020 5:15pm - 5:45pm EST
CC 203

Advising, Office Hours

5:45pm EST

Dinner

Friday January 3, 2020 5:45pm - 7:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

7:00pm EST

Student Reading #1

Friday January 3, 2020 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Readings, Student

8:30pm EST

Student-Initiated Group Meetings

Friday January 3, 2020 8:30pm - 10:00pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Meetings, Student

7:45am EST

Breakfast

Saturday January 4, 2020 7:45am - 9:00am EST
Dining Hall

Meals

8:45am EST

Advising Group #1

Saturday January 4, 2020 8:45am - 10:45am EST
Advising Group Locations

Advising, Advising Groups

11:00am EST

Keynote Session: Residency Theme, "The Long Game"

Speakers

Rogelio Martinez

Faculty, Goddard College

Rogelio Martinez is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been workshopped and produced in theaters across the country and abroad. His newest play, Blind Date, was produced this season at the Goodman Theater under the direction of Robert Falls. The play starred Tony Award... Read More →

Sherri L. Smith

Faculty, Goddard College

SHERRI'S ZOOM CLASSROOM LINK: zoom.us/j/93330545188Sherri L. Smith is the author of nine award-winning books for young people, including the 2009 California Book Awards Gold Medalist, Flygirl,—a World War II adventure the Washington Post named a best book of the year. Her middle grade historical fantasy The Toymaker’s Apprent... Read More →

Saturday January 4, 2020 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Plenary, Keynote

11:45am EST

Lunch

Saturday January 4, 2020 11:45am - 12:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

12:00pm EST

Faculty Meeting (Check-in)

Saturday January 4, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Meetings, Faculty

1:15pm EST

DRW: Nuts & Bolts of the Final Semester: A Road Map for Final Semester Students

A road map for final semester students. Topics covered include: extensions, narrative transcript, course equivalents, course descriptions, bibliographies, process paper, and working with a second reader. Required for final-semester students (1.5 hours)

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Saturday January 4, 2020 1:15pm - 2:45pm EST
Silo Conference Room

Workshops, DRW, Faculty

1:15pm EST

DRW: The Art of Critical Writing (Required for New G1 Students)

This Degree Requirement Workshop for entering students demystifies the “close reading” process, defines the Goddard annotation, and looks at guidelines and options for critical papers. With the goal of developing YOUR personal, craft-based approach, we will engage in a group process of analyzing sample works in various genres. Using the details and patterns that emerge, we will explore how to locate a range of worthwhile avenues for critical response to any literary text. No advance reading is required; brief handouts will be provided. Required for G1 (and readmitted) students. (3 hours)

Speakers

Bea Gates

Faculty, Goddard College

Beatrix Gates has published five poetry collections, including Dos; In the Open, a Lambda poetry finalist; and Ten Minutes. In 2020, Gates’ chapbook, desire lines, was published by Artifact Press in a letterpress edition with prints by Heidi Reiszies (https://www.artifactpres... Read More →

Saturday January 4, 2020 1:15pm - 4:15pm EST
Clockhouse

Workshops, DRW, Faculty

1:15pm EST

Make Your Mark: Making Stuff Up

In this hands-on three-hour workshop, after a short conversation about invented cosmologies within works of narrative art, we'll engage in numerous in-class writing exercises in response to prompts designed to spark ideas for narratives whose operative modes are inventive and unusual. No sharing will be required. Bring coffee. Participants will leave afterward with enough new ideas for entire bodies of new work.

Speakers

John McManus

Faculty Member, Goddard College

John McManus is the author of three short story collections—Fox Tooth Heart, Born on a Train, and Stop Breakin Down—and the novel Bitter Milk. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Tin House, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, Oxford American, and elsewhere... Read More →

Saturday January 4, 2020 1:15pm - 4:15pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, Faculty

5:00pm EST

Faculty Reading and Conversation

MC Sherri L. Smith.

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

John McManus

Faculty Member, Goddard College

Reiko Rizzuto

Faculty Member, Goddard College

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s three books include Shadow Child, a mystery/family/saga/historical novel set in Hawaii, New York and Japan; her memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning, which moves from the original “Ground Zero” to its echo, the 9/11 terrorist attacks; and her first novel, Why... Read More →

Saturday January 4, 2020 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Readings, Faculty

5:45pm EST

Dinner

Saturday January 4, 2020 5:45pm - 7:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

7:00pm EST

Graduating Student Readings

MC: John McManus

Join us as we celebrate our graduates and their work:

Aurora Hurd, The Library
Ron Estrada, The Wind, Then Turn From It
Dana Wall, The Phantom Witness
Susannah Melone, Sounds and Sweet Airs
Smitty Abel-Smith, Scribe
Justin LaFrenier, The Sewer Book
Pittershawn Palmer, A Soul Apart

Speakers

Aurora Hurd

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Ron Estrada

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Hi, I'm Ron. I’m a writer and photographer. Yes: garlic, the Oxford comma, Tom Waits. No: glitter, dark chocolate, water snakes.

Dana Wall

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Susannah Melone

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Smitty Abel-Smith

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Justin LaFrenier

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Pittershawn Palmer

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Saturday January 4, 2020 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Special Events, Readings, Graduates, Commencement

9:00pm EST

Celebration Dance

Saturday January 4, 2020 9:00pm - Sunday January 5, 2020 12:00am EST
Haybarn Theatre

Activities, Fun

9:15pm EST

Student-Initiated Group Meetings

Saturday January 4, 2020 9:15pm - 10:00pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Meetings, Student

7:45am EST

Breakfast

Sunday January 5, 2020 7:45am - 9:00am EST
Dining Hall

Meals

8:45am EST

Here's the Thing: capturing the play on the page

Play scripts are blueprints for productions. As playwrights we offer instructions for telling a story in four dimensions and building a living world. Contemporary playwrights have carte blanche to use the blank page to communicate with actors, directors, and designers. We can provide opportunities visually within the dialogue on the page for realizing a creation. In this workshop we will play with ways of creating a visual map, an aural score, or emotional conditions using punctuation, line lengths, white space, and unique placement of words on the page. We’ll look at examples of contained, joyful, and groundbreaking use of the page from David Harrower, Chay Yew, and Sarah Kane, respectively, and we will experiment with a core element in each.

Speakers

Susannah Melone

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Sunday January 5, 2020 8:45am - 10:15am EST
Haybarn Theatre

Workshops, Graduates

8:45am EST

SciFi-Fantasy Crash Course

Science Fiction and Fantasy as we think of them have been around since the early 1800s. But how does one go about writing works of the fantastic? This workshop will look at key elements of craft needed for writing SciFi and Fantasy, as well as what these genres encompass, their influences, and give some prompts to try in class to further explore writing these popular fiction classics.

Speakers

Aurora Hurd

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Sunday January 5, 2020 8:45am - 10:15am EST
Clockhouse

Workshops, Graduates

8:45am EST

The Rainbow Connection: How Using Color Can Advance Your Narrative

In this workshop, we will look at both subtle use and direct acknowledgment of color in written work and film. We'll discuss how this aspect of our visual perception can shape the artist's story and the reader's or viewer's reception of it. Bring something to write with/on.

Speakers

Ron Estrada

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Hi, I'm Ron. I’m a writer and photographer. Yes: garlic, the Oxford comma, Tom Waits. No: glitter, dark chocolate, water snakes.

Sunday January 5, 2020 8:45am - 10:15am EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, Student

9:30am EST

Meeting with Prospective Students

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Sunday January 5, 2020 9:30am - 10:30am EST
CC 203

Logistics, Admissions

10:30am EST

Nuts and Bolts: The Shape of Memoir

If you have started your memoir, or are thinking about it, you might already have discovered the vast difference between your life, and your life on the page. And since your life is unfinished, and may seem unwieldy, uncertain or unimportant, how can it be the source of a compelling and satisfying book? In this 90 minute workshop, we will talk about how to turn life into art. Through discussion and exercises we will address questions like, “Where do I begin? What do I include? Why would anyone else care? What is my point? How do I get rid of all this boring stuff that happened in the middle? Or choose between all the stuff that repeats? What is a memoir anyway?” (1.5 hours)

Speakers

Reiko Rizzuto

Faculty Member, Goddard College

Sunday January 5, 2020 10:30am - 12:00pm EST
Clockhouse

10:30am EST

Research for fiction: historical, speculative

Librarian and author S. Abel-Smith offers a workshop on conducting research for writing genre fiction (historical, speculative). How to find resources, how to best make creative use of them, how to speculate wildly based on fact.

Speakers

Smitty Abel-Smith

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Sunday January 5, 2020 10:30am - 12:00pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Workshops, Graduates

11:45am EST

Lunch

Sunday January 5, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

12:00pm EST

Faculty Meeting (Agenda items)

Sunday January 5, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Meetings, Faculty

1:15pm EST

Annotating the Graphic Novel

Do you want to include graphic novels in your next reading list but are currently hesitant? Are you worried you won't be able to accurately annotate the funny pages, thereby risking your already flawless body of annotations? Fear not! Join me for a deep dive into how to read and annotate for voice, style, and pacing in graphic novels. This workshop will feature several genres -- fantasy/sci-fi, romance, thriller, memoir, and biography. No prior experience with graphic novels is required. User-friendly to all genres.

Speakers

Justin LaFrenier

Graduating Student, Goddard College

Sunday January 5, 2020 1:15pm - 2:45pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, Graduates

1:15pm EST

Word for Word: Documentary Poetics: An Introduction

Inspired by Muriel Rukeyser’s “Book of the Dead” and William Carlos Williams It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there, we will read and discuss the work of contemporary American documentary poets, led by the question: How is the work arranged to make powerful statement—a gesture outwards?

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Sunday January 5, 2020 1:15pm - 2:45pm EST
CC 206 Pitkin Conference Room

Workshops, Faculty

3:15pm EST

Graduating Student Reception for graduates, their families, and faculty

Sunday January 5, 2020 3:15pm - 4:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Special Events, Commencement

4:00pm EST

Graduating Students Meet

Sunday January 5, 2020 4:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Haybarn Gallery

Special Events, Commencement

4:15pm EST

Commencement

Join us for Commencement with beloved faculty emeritus Darrah Cloud, invited as Commencement Speaker by the graduating class. Director Elena Georgiou will Emcee and President Bernard Bull will confer the degrees.

Speakers

Darrah Cloud

Commencement Speaker

Darrah Cloud is currently working on Turning, commissioned by Centenary Stage and NJPAC, a play about the first U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team; the musical adaptation of Willy Holtzman’s play, Sabina, with composer Louise Beach; American Siddhartha with director Nick... Read More →

Dan Hocoy, PhD

President, Goddard College

Dan Hocoy, Ph.D., became president of Goddard College, August 2, 2021. Dr. Hocoy’s life work has been committed to advancing social justice. Throughout his career in academic administration, he has made “serving the underserved” and addressing historic injustices a priority... Read More →

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Sunday January 5, 2020 4:15pm - 5:45pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Special Events, Commencement

5:45pm EST

Dinner

Sunday January 5, 2020 5:45pm - 7:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

7:00pm EST

The Pitkin Review Reading & Mixer

The Pitkin Review's Editor-in-Chief and current staff cordially invite you to a select reading and celebration of the student work published in the spring 2020 issue. Support Goddard's biannual literary journal and the student published in it! Copies of the issue will be available for purchase at $12 per copy.

Moderators

Miriam

VT/GRADUATING/playwriting/she, her, hers

Sunday January 5, 2020 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Activities, Fun, Pitkin

8:30pm EST

Student-Initiated Group Meetings

Sunday January 5, 2020 8:30pm - 9:30pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Meetings, Student

7:45am EST

Breakfast

Monday January 6, 2020 7:45am - 9:00am EST
Dining Hall

Meals

8:45am EST

Advising Group #2

Monday January 6, 2020 8:45am - 10:45am EST
Advising Group Locations

Advising, Advising Groups

11:00am EST

Office Hours with Director, Elena Georgiou

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Monday January 6, 2020 11:00am - 11:30am EST
CC 203

Advising, Office Hours

11:00am EST

Student Reading #2

Monday January 6, 2020 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Readings, Student

11:45am EST

Lunch

Monday January 6, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

11:45am EST

Faculty Meeting (with Marketing Director Joshua Auerbach)

Check with Joshua

Speakers

Joshua Auerbach

Director of Marketing, Goddard College

Monday January 6, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Meetings, Faculty

1:00pm EST

Mandatory Group Meeting for all New Direct and Graduate PLUS Loan New Borrowers Receiving Aid at Goddard for the First Time

This is a mandatory session for new and returning students who are receiving Stafford and/or Graduate PLUS loans for the first time at Goddard College. Please arrive on time. If you are unable to make this meeting, contact The Financial Aid Office at finaid@goddard.edu or ext. 234 or 303.

Speakers

Manuel O'Neill

Financial Aid Counselor, Goddard College

Monday January 6, 2020 1:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Silo Lounge

Meetings, Financial Aid, Student, College

1:15pm EST

DRW: The Teaching Practicum and Beyond (Required for students about to do their Teaching Practicum),

With Student Panel.

Elena will walk you through the expectations of the practicum as well as offer tips for a successful experience teaching. We will look at syllabi and how to build them, and hear about first-hand experiences from those who have recently completed their practicums. This phase of your degree is required because we believe that the best way to learn something is to have to teach it, and because it is a way of giving back to the communities in which you live. Required for G3s. Recommended for G2s. (3 hours)

Speakers

Elena Georgiou

Director, Goddard College

Monday January 6, 2020 1:15pm - 4:15pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, DRW, Faculty

1:15pm EST

Nuts and Bolts: The Rules of the Game: Different Stories, Different Structures

Story structure is an amazing thing. It provides the scaffolding on which we build an entire narrative. After all, every story has three things—a beginning, a middle, and an end. Or do they? Here in the US, the answer is an unequivocal "yes." But stories are told differently around the world— and yet achieve similar goals of enchanting an audience and of sharing the human experience. In this class we will discuss a variety of traditional story structures from several cultures. We will dive into some writing exercises to see how the structural choices might change the stories we tell. We will also discuss hybridizing structure to flavor our work or make points that might otherwise be lost in translation. Bring your own cultural traditions to the table. Let's discover what's inherent in our work that we might not have noticed before. Come prepared to listen, to write, and to share. This course is suitable for all genres.

Speakers

Sherri L. Smith

Faculty, Goddard College

Monday January 6, 2020 1:15pm - 4:15pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Workshops, Faculty

4:30pm EST

Mini-Writing Retreat #1 (Student Facilitated): Space 1 (mixed genres)

Monday January 6, 2020 4:30pm - 6:00pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Activities, Mini Writing Retreats

4:30pm EST

Mini-Writing Retreat #1 (Student Facilitated): Space 2 (mixed genres)

Monday January 6, 2020 4:30pm - 6:00pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Activities, Mini Writing Retreats

5:00pm EST

Faculty Meeting with President Bernard Bull

Speakers

Dan Hocoy, PhD

President, Goddard College

Monday January 6, 2020 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Meetings, Faculty

5:45pm EST

Dinner

Monday January 6, 2020 5:45pm - 7:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

7:00pm EST

Visiting Writer Reading, Q and A and reception

MC: Rogelio Martinez

Speakers

Eduardo Machado

Visiting Writer

Award-winning playwright, director, and writer for film and television, Eduardo Machado, was born in Cuba and came to the United States when he was nine. Eduardo is the author of over forty plays, including The Floating Island Plays, Once Removed, Stevie Wants To Play The Blues, A... Read More →

Monday January 6, 2020 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Special Events, Visiting Speaker Reading | Readings, Visiting Speaker Reading | Plenary, Visiting Speaker Reading

8:45pm EST

Student-Initiated Group Meetings

Monday January 6, 2020 8:45pm - 9:45pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Meetings, Student

7:45am EST

Breakfast

Tuesday January 7, 2020 7:45am - 9:00am EST
Dining Hall

Meals

8:45am EST

Let's Talk Publishing! Faculty panel discussion

Faculty members talk about their personal publishing and production experiences, and give advice on navigating your professional life. The rest of the time is devoted to your questions.

Tuesday January 7, 2020 8:45am - 9:45am EST
Haybarn Theatre

Workshops

10:00am EST

Freeing Your Voice

A writing workshop focusing on exercises to develop your dramatic voice and style through the exploration of your characters' dramatic needs, using sense memory, emotional recall and other theatrical and psychological techniques.
You must bring a notebook, pens and pencils.

Speakers

Eduardo Machado

Visiting Writer

Tuesday January 7, 2020 10:00am - 12:00pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Special Events Workshops Plenary

11:00am EST

Final-Semester Student Study Plans (3 copies) to be left in box at the Helpdesk

Tuesday January 7, 2020 11:00am - 11:00am EST
Help Desk

Logistics, Deadlines

11:45am EST

Lunch

Tuesday January 7, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

11:45am EST

Faculty Meeting (Review Study Plans)

Tuesday January 7, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Meetings, Faculty

11:45am EST

Teaching Licensure Meeting

This workshop is REQUIRED for all new students wishing to pursue licensure. Returning students with questions about licensure are also encouraged to attend.

Speakers

Kumari Younce

EDU Faculty, Goddard College

Tuesday January 7, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Reserved Table in Dining Hall

Meetings, College, Teaching

1:15pm EST

Genre Intensive: Creative Nonfiction

Nonfiction Intensive, with faculty member Rahna Reiko Rizzuto. In this workshop, we will be exploring ways to deepen our writing, follow the clues and suggestions our subconscious is leaving on the page, and figure out where we might go next. Part discussion, part revision, part group work, our nonfiction intensive will give you some tools and tricks to help you break open your writing, then see how it might be “re-envisioned.” I am inviting submissions of up to three pages (double spaced), but this time, I want your problem children, which means something you want to improve and just haven’t been able to figure out how to fix, along with three questions you have about the submission and what isn’t working (on a separate paper or on the back of the last page). I will use a few of these in class to illustrate what we are doing, and will use all of them to set our workshop frame. Everyone is welcome to join us. You do not have to be writing nonfiction to attend. However, all participants please bring paper and a writing implement, and a problem child of your own (appropriate for sharing), with three questions/problems you are having with it. Submission folder deadlines and location will be announced at opening session. Start thinking about what you want to work on now! (3 hours)

Speakers

Reiko Rizzuto

Faculty Member, Goddard College

Tuesday January 7, 2020 1:15pm - 4:15pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, Faculty

NOTE If you are planning to come to this workshop, but did not submit (which is fine, and you are welcome!) please bring a page of your own writing, a “problem child” so you can work on it in the end of the workshop (no sharing necessary). If you are planning to go to Sherri’s fiction workshop that overlaps the second half of the CNF Intensive, you are welcome to join us for the first part and slip out when you need to.

1:15pm EST

Genre Intensive: Poetry and Hybrid Forms

In the first part of this intensive, Bea will talk about the craft of poetry, focusing on one or two poets, as examples with an emphasis on building impact to the whole. The second part of the workshop will engage in re-visiting issues in student work and beginning revision in light of the methods discussed from the craft samples. We will write towards the next version in the workshop and will end by reading from our next versions and discussing the changes made together. Please submit no more than three poems, no longer than 2 pages each, that you feel need opening up or re-structuring in some way and bring copies of the same work to the workshop. Although you need not submit in order to attend the session, you must bring a poem with you that you would like to work on. The submission guidelines will be announced again at the Opening Session. (3 hours)

Speakers

Bea Gates

Faculty, Goddard College

Tuesday January 7, 2020 1:15pm - 4:15pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Workshops, Faculty

2:45pm EST

Nuts and Bolts: Roadmap for Finishing Your Novel or How to Outline without Freaking Out

I am a Planner. I love outlines. To me, they are handy guides, good listeners, and perfect for experimentation, and yet, so many writers balk at the idea. This type of writer is called a Pantser—named for the seat by which they fly. To Pantsers, outlines are strict authoritarians, roadblocks to creativity, and absolutely, positively not into the idea of Change. But here's a secret: fear of outlining is the first sign of the Evil Internal Editor saying, "You can't do this!" Writing a novel can be a wonderful experience, or a frightening one, depending on how well you have prepared. Outlines are a big part of that preparation. In this workshop you’ll begin to develop your own personal guidebook to get you through the process from start to finish. We’ll do exercises to help you focus your concept and start drafting a “map” for your project. We’ll also discuss how to tackle each day’s journey to help you get to “the end,” and what to do next. Be prepared to think and write! Suitable for fiction, non-fiction and graphic novel and dramatic writing. Poets welcome, too!

Speakers

Sherri L. Smith

Faculty, Goddard College

Tuesday January 7, 2020 2:45pm - 4:15pm EST
Clockhouse

Workshops, Faculty

4:30pm EST

Mini-Writing Retreat #2 (Student-Facilitated): Space 1 (mixed genres)

Tuesday January 7, 2020 4:30pm - 6:00pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Activities, Mini Writing Retreats

4:30pm EST

Mini-Writing Retreat #2 (Student-Facilitated): Space 2 (mixed genres)

Tuesday January 7, 2020 4:30pm - 6:00pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Activities, Mini Writing Retreats

5:45pm EST

Dinner

Tuesday January 7, 2020 5:45pm - 7:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

6:00pm EST

Faculty Appreciation Dinner

Tuesday January 7, 2020 6:00pm - 9:00pm EST
Off-campus

Activities

7:00pm EST

Take Ten

Heads up playwrights and screenwriters! Want a staged reading of your work in front of an enthusiastic audience? TAKE TEN is the perfect opportunity for you to hear your 10 minute play. Performed by your fellow writers with minimal rehearsal and no acting skill required, the event is an opportunity for dramatic writers to hear their work and other writers to join in the process. Submissions are limited to ten minutes (8-12 pages). Six of the submissions will be chosen for the readings. If your piece is selected, it's YOUR responsibility to choose actors and organize rehearsals. The deadline for submission will be early in the residency, so come prepared with pages to submit. Everyone is invited to attend what is always one of the highlights of the residency. (1.5 hours evening performance.) Check the bulletin board for submission deadline. Please submit 2 copies of your play in the envelope on the bulletin board.

Moderators

Miriam

VT/GRADUATING/playwriting/she, her, hers

Domenick Danza

Returning Student, Goddard College

I am a G4, with a focus on playwriting. I live in Brooklyn, NY and teach Drama with the NYC Department of Education.

Tuesday January 7, 2020 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Activities, Fun

8:15pm EST

Student-Initiated Group Meetings

Tuesday January 7, 2020 8:15pm - 9:15pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Meetings, Student

7:45am EST

Breakfast

Wednesday January 8, 2020 7:45am - 9:00am EST
Dining Hall

Meals

8:45am EST

Advising Group #3

Wednesday January 8, 2020 8:45am - 10:45am EST
Advising Group Locations

Advising, Advising Groups

11:00am EST

Office Hours with Director, Elena Georgiou

Wednesday January 8, 2020 11:00am - 11:30am EST
CC 203

Advising, Office Hours

11:00am EST

Student Reading #3

Wednesday January 8, 2020 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Readings, Students

11:45am EST

Lunch

Wednesday January 8, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

12:00pm EST

Faculty Meeting (Salaried)

Wednesday January 8, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
CC 206 Pitkin Conference Room

Meetings, Faculty

12:00pm EST

The Pitkin Review Staff Meeting

Did you know that Goddard has its very own peer-reviewer biannual literary journal? Join us at this lunch meeting to learn how to submit your work as well as join the editorial staff for the upcoming fall 2020 issue. Current and prospective members are welcome. Come be a part of the Pitkin family!

Moderators

Miriam

VT/GRADUATING/playwriting/she, her, hers

Wednesday January 8, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Round Table in back of Dining Hall

Meetings, Pitkin Review, Student

1:00pm EST

Financial Aid/Financial Literacy Q&A (Drop by anytime during this time slot),

Speakers

Financial Aid Counselor

Financial Aid Counselor, Goddard College

Wednesday January 8, 2020 1:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Reserved Table in Dining Hall

Activities, Financial Aid, College

1:00pm EST

Word for Word: ON THE ROAD

Few film genres show us more about the basics of screenwriting than the road picture. The formula is a simple one involving obstacles and conflict. It's this simple formula that allows us to talk at greater length about what is essential to screenwriting regardless of genre. In this workshop, we’ll watch scenes from several films in order to better understand this staple of cinema.

Speakers

Rogelio Martinez

Faculty, Goddard College

Wednesday January 8, 2020 1:00pm - 4:00pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, Faculty

1:15pm EST

Make Your Mark: Writing the Body, a meditation and writing exercise

Every one of our muscles, bones and ligament contains the history of our lives, told in scars, tension, and sense memory. In this gentle, generative session we will do a 10-minute meditation to discover the stories held within our own bodies, and spend time writing what we learn. We will follow with a second meditation to speak to our inner selves and ask for guidance in our work. Come to class in comfortable cloths. Feel free to bring a yoga mat or towel to lie down on, or sit in a chair if it is more comfortable for your body. Suitable for all genres.

Speakers

Sherri L. Smith

Faculty, Goddard College

Wednesday January 8, 2020 1:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Clockhouse

Workshops, Faculty

1:30pm EST

Queering Fantasy: How Fantasical Worlds Make for Fantasical Queerness

This workshop will be focused on the ways that fantasy stories can be an excellent method for telling stories of queerness and queer lives. We will touch on popular media, and potentially branch into fantastical horror and sci-fi

Speakers

Graduating Student Abby Crittenden

Returning Student, Goddard College

Wednesday January 8, 2020 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
CC 206 Pitkin Conference Room

Workshops, Graduates

3:15pm EST

Mini Writing Retreat #3 (Student-Facilitated): Space 1 (mixed genres)

Wednesday January 8, 2020 3:15pm - 4:45pm EST
Cottage

Activities, Mini Writing Retreats

3:15pm EST

Mini Writing Retreat #3 (Student-Facilitated): Space 2 (mixed genres)

Wednesday January 8, 2020 3:15pm - 4:45pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Activities, Mini Writing Retreats

5:00pm EST

Faculty Reading and Conversation

MC: Elena Georgiou

Speakers

Rogelio Martinez

Faculty, Goddard College

Sherri L. Smith

Faculty, Goddard College

Bea Gates

Faculty, Goddard College

Wednesday January 8, 2020 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Readings, Faculty

5:45pm EST

Dinner

Wednesday January 8, 2020 5:45pm - 7:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

7:00pm EST

Visiting Alumni Reading, Q and A and reception

Introduced by Elena Georgiou

Speakers

Laurel Radzieski

Visiting Alumna

Laurel Radzieski is a poet and the author of Red Mother (NYQ Books, 2018). She received her MFA from Goddard College. Laurel’s poems have appeared in Really System, Atlas and Alice, The Slag Review, Glintmoon, Down the Dog Hole: 11 Poets on Northeast Pennsylvania and elsewhere... Read More →

Wednesday January 8, 2020 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Haybarn Theatre

Special Events Readings

9:00pm EST

Student-Initiated Group Meetings

Wednesday January 8, 2020 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
See CC Bulletin Board

Meetings, Student

7:45am EST

Breakfast

Thursday January 9, 2020 7:45am - 9:00am EST
Dining Hall

Meals

9:00am EST

Genre Intensive: Dramatic Writing

In this intensive dramatic writing workshop, students will bring pages from their work. Whether it be an excerpt from a film, a play, a television script, or even a treatment, we will explore what is essential to the story you are telling and what is not. In the first hour of the workshop, all work will be read aloud and brief notes given. The students will then go away for the second hour and rewrite their pages using some of the notes they received. In the final hour we will once again meet and review the rewrites.

Speakers

Rogelio Martinez

Faculty, Goddard College

Thursday January 9, 2020 9:00am - 12:00pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Workshops, Faculty

9:00am EST

Genre Intensive: Fiction

In this workshop, we will be exploring ways to deepen our writing, follow the clues and suggestions our subconscious is leaving on the page, and figure out where we might go next. Part discussion, part revision, part group work, our fiction intensive will give you some tools and tricks to help you break open your writing, and then, using the freedom of imagination and possibility that fiction offers, see how it might be “re-envisioned.” I am inviting submissions of up to three pages (double spaced), but this time, I want your problem children, which means something you want to improve and just haven’t been able to figure out how to fix, along with three questions you have about the submission and what isn’t working (on a separate paper or on the back of the last page). I will use a few of these in class to illustrate what we are doing, and will use all of them to set our workshop frame. Everyone is welcome to join us. You do not have to be writing fiction to attend. However, all participants please bring paper and a writing implement, and a problem child of your own (appropriate for sharing), with three questions/problems you are having with it. Submission folder deadlines and location will be announced at opening session. Start thinking about what you want to work on now!

Speakers

John McManus

Faculty Member, Goddard College

Thursday January 9, 2020 9:00am - 12:00pm EST
Manor Oak Room

Workshops, Faculty

10:30am EST

Lying to Tell the Truth: Putting Your Poetic License to Use

Real-world experiences are often the starting points for poems. While autobiographical details can feel important, they can also get in the way of writing through to the poem’s next level. We will read and discuss poems by Marie Howe and other contemporary poets who use their experiences as platforms to dive from. Please bring a poem that you are working on that is based on an actual experience (sharing optional). Be prepared to write. You don't have to be a poet to join us.

Speakers

Laurel Radzieski

Visiting Alumna

Thursday January 9, 2020 10:30am - 12:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Workshops, Featured Guest

11:45am EST

Lunch

Thursday January 9, 2020 11:45am - 1:00pm EST
Dining Hall

Meals

12:00pm EST

Faculty Meeting (Planning)

Thursday January 9, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Clockhouse

Meetings, Faculty

12:00pm EST

Student Council Community Meeting

This meeting is a forum for students to bring their thoughts and questions concerning Community Life and Goddard in general. This is also an opportunity to hear about the work of Goddard's Student Council and to provide input into the overall Student Council agenda for the coming year. All students are encouraged to attend. (1.5 hours)

Speakers

Student Council Representatives

Thursday January 9, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Reserved Table in Dining Hall

Meetings, Student

1:15pm EST

Exploring the Writer Role(s)

Perceptions of the writer identity are often romanticized or are caricatures that differ greatly from what being a writer really looks like. Join author and poet Laurel Radzieski for a crash course on the alternatives that writers have the opportunity to embody in their communities and in society. Learn how authors have aligned their craft with action and how engaging in writer-adjacent initiatives can enhance and inspire your work. Laurel will share advice on supporting creative practice by applying for residencies and grants, as well as ways to foster a culture of participation. Attendees will develop a take-away assignment related to their creative goals.

Speakers

Laurel Radzieski

Visiting Alumna

Thursday January 9, 2020 1:15pm - 3:15pm EST
CC 207, Media Room

Special Events, All, Professional Development, Featured Guest | Workshops, All, Professional Development, Featured Guest

1:15pm EST

Make Your Mark: Tarot for Writers

After a week of inspiration, challenge, epiphany and terror, we are ready to head home. What do you need to remember? What problems do you still need to solve? Whether you can’t wait to get back to your writing space, are blocked, or just never want to leave, a message from the tarot might help you take the next step in your project and your writing life. We will be using The Shining Tribe Tarot, created by the world-renown master of tarot and emeritus advisor of the Goddard MFAW, Rachel Pollack, who tells us that tarot is a channel for reminding ourselves of what we already know. Come join us for a final bit of insight from the all-knowing self that is you. (You might want to bring your phone or a device to take pictures with.)

Speakers