In the Czech Republic, when you throw a stone, you hit a castle. We went to Kašperk Castle, founded in 1356 by Charles IV to protect the Czech borders. Our Guest Writer, the indefatigable, Tim Weed, gave us a great historical fiction exercise and lecture. Then: we hit…
Initially built in 1780 as a fortress to keep people out, Terezín’s purpose bleakly flipped in 1940 when it was transformed into a Jewish concentration camp. We traveled an hour by bus outside of Prague to see this haunted site. Included below are a few…
The Vydra River winds through the Sumava Forest in Southern Bohemia. After dropping off our bags at Hotel Zámek Zdíkov, it’s the first place we went. We hiked along the river, taking in the scene. The trees along the trails are the sort of green saved for…
Letná Park rises up above the north bank of the Vlatava River. We went there to listen. The park hummed around us, the city churned below, and we created soundscapes in our notebooks. We strolled through the park, taking in the jaw-dropping view and approaching the castle from the…
Brenna’s workshop group put together a bricolage poem today. By definition, it’s a piece of writing that brings together disparate pieces of available material to create a single construction. It is meant to be a collage, a blending. Here is a blending of our group’s…
Last night after our sunset picnic, we caught a tram down to the city’s center and hopped on some paddle boats to catch views of Prague by night. Two regular paddle boats and two swan-shaped paddle boats (one affectionately known as Swan Ronson) hit the…
From the Taste of Prague blog, written by our Prague food and culture tour guides, Jan and Zuzi: “A “paternoster” is an old-school elevator that consists of a chain of open compartments that moves slowly up and down in a loop. To get to the…
A mosaic of writing from Nate’s Workshop Group from a morning in Riegrovy Sady Park. This exercise is modeled after Joe Brainard’s unconventional memoir, I Remember: I remember becoming friends with a girl on the first day of second grade because we wore the…
Tonight we climbed Vítkov Hill for a sunset picnic. Food was great, company was better, and views were breathtaking.
A Bit Worse than Romeo: Tragedy from Caprice is an inter-genre production at the MeetFactory, a non-profit contemporary arts organization in Prague. A Bit Worse than Romeo features a reinterpretation of three texts: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Dark Energy by Juli Zeh, and The Seducer’s Diary by Søren Kierkegaard….