Bright Hill Literary Center

2012 - Bright Hill Literary Center Winter Workshops for Children and Teens - 2012

"Legends & Folktales: The Northern World" Museum & Workshop Program

Bright Hill's 18th Annual Winter Workshops for Kidsprogram begins on Saturday, February 4, and continues on the 11th, 18th, 25th, and March 10. The theme is"Legends and Folktales: The Northern World," and the program starts with a visit, on February 4, to the Corning Museum of Glass. We'll be leaving on a at 8:15 am (sharp!) from Bright Hill Literary Center, 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY. While at the museum we'll see demonstrations of some or all of the following (time permitting) including the Hot Glass Show, Flameworking Demo, Glassbreaking Demo, and

Optical Fiber Demo.

The children will be given packets (supplied by Bright Hill) that include plain paper for drawing, line paper, and pencils with erasers. At the museum they will draw and take notes on objects that interest them; their drawings and notes will be used as resources during the remaining four workshop sessions as the children make interdisciplinary projects and write poems and legends. The children will also bring bag lunches from home to be eaten at the museum. The workshop program is limited to students aged 5-13. The final day of the workshop session, March 10, will be a "finishing up" day, after which parents and guardians will be invited to a mini-exhibit and program.

The Winter Workshops for Kids program is free, but there is a materials and travel fee of $45 for each student. There are some partial and full scholarships available on a first come, first served basis. Registration is limited, due to space restrictions, so early sign-up is necessary.The workshops are led by Bertha Rogers. For a PDF of the registration form, click on PDF icon below. For questions, call 607-829-5055 or e-mail wordthur@stny.rr.com.

P.S. The summer workshops program registration form will be available in February.

Clink on PDF icon to download Bright Hill Winter Literary Museum Workshop 2012

Bright Hill's workshops take place in the Bright Hill Education Wing.

This wonderful building was originally a garage but, in 2005, thanks to a generous grant from the Otis A. Thompson Foundation, the garage was completely renovated for educational uses. Its heating system makes it cozy in the winter, and its insulated, heavy-duty doors provide both warmth in the winter and friendly cross-breezes in the winter. The garage was originally constructed in the 1980s, to compliment the 1865 house and is accessible in all weathers via a breezeway off the front porch.

The house, which serves as Bright Hill's main building, and which houses the Word & Image Gallery, BHP's offices, the Kitchen BookShop and Reception Area, and two guest rooms for visiting writers, has a handicap-accessible ramp. We made the site completely user-friendly by adding a handicap-accessible bathroom in 2008.

The Library & Internet Center is connected to the main building via the Kitchen Bookshop, and it too has a handicap-accessible ramp from level to level, in the facility. The library is stocked with more than 6,000 literary journals dating to the 1940s, many of them complete sets, a gift from Renee Weiss of the Quarterly Review of Literature; and literary prose, poetry, and criticism, art, children's books, reference, and nature books. We do not stock popular titles. Most of the books are for use within the library; we hope to have them catalogued within the next few years, and almost all of them will be available in an online archive at that time. In addition, there is a loft with large, comfy pillows for children to read and play quiet games

Please visit us, take our workshops, read at Word Thursdays, buy our BHP books --
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Pictures from previous Bright Hill Literary Workshops for Kids programs. Click on pictures for detailed information.