PREHISTORIC BEARS AND CATSKILLS CREATURES- TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS

FEBRUARY 20-24, 2023

PREHISTORIC BEARS AND CATSKILLS CREATURES- TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS

Youth Literacy Arts Education Workshop

February 20-24. Workshop Cost to Participants: $170 – led by master teaching artist Bertha Rogers. – Ages 6 -14: 9 am – 2:30 pm, 5 days – We’ll learn about Eurypterus, Coelophysis, American Mastodon, Giant Beaver, Giant Short-faced Bear, and others and how they lived. We’ll construct our own versions of them in the form of papier mache and in dioramas; and we’ll write poems and riddles and stories about them. On the last day we will read our writings and present an exhibit of our projects for parents and friends. The cost is $250 for out-of-area students and $170 for regional students (cost includes morning & afternoon snacks (students bring their own lunch). Registration is limited to 22 students.(Delaware Academy students receive full scholarships; full and partial scholarships are available for Delaware and Otsego County students). 

Bertha Rogers’s poems appear in journals and anthologies and the collections Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, 2010); Even the Hemlock (Six Swans, 2005); The Fourth Beast (Snark, 2004); A House of Corners (Three Conditions, 2000); Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991); and What Want Brings: New & Selected Poems (forthcoming, Salmon, 2023). Her translation of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic, was published in 2000 (Birch Brook); her translation of the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, was published in 2019 (Six Swans). Grants received include several from NYSCA, NYFA, and other foundations. Rogers co-founded with Ernest M. Fishman Bright Hill Press & Literary Center in 1992. She has been awarded residency fellowships to artists’ colonies, among them MacDowell, Millay, Saltonstall, and Hawthornden Int’l Writing Retreat. A Master Teaching Artist, she presents programs in schools, libraries, and other venues. Rogers has served as judge for local, regional, and NY state NEA Poetry Out Loud Contests and is a member of the selection committee for the NY Writers Hall of Fame. Her visual works have been shown in hundreds of juried and solo exhibits throughout the US and Europe and are collected in the Harry Ransom Archive at the University of Texas.

This workshop runs Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 2:30 PM

Ages 6 – 14

Cost to tri-county area students only: $ 

Cost to out of town students: $250

Full scholarships available to Delaware Academy Students with thanks to the AL Kellogg Foundation