Join Jessica Oreck, filmmaker and curator (of the Office of Collecting and Design), for a non-credit, graduate-level exploration of how to think about narrative. This workshop is for anyone interested in storytelling structure — geologists, historians, physicists, architects, creative writers, filmmakers, and any other discipline you can imagine. Please complete this brief application no later than September 16, 2024.

“When we think of mapmaking, we tend to think of geography. But the cartography of a story isn’t about locations. It is a map through time, through emotions, characters, dialogue, events.

How can we take a story and lay it out on a single page? Not as a way of telling the story, but as a way of making a story visible. A way of fixing the fluidity of time, drawing linear time as a line of sight. A way of organizing experience. A way of breaking the rules. And then taking what we’ve learned and using them as tools of enlightenment, change, chance, and empathy.

Narrative Cartography is a short workshop about storytelling, mapmaking, time, distance, history, etymology, and invisibility.” – Jessica Oreck.

The workshop will take place over three sessions — applicants must commit to attend all three sessions to be considered for a spot in the workshop:

• Saturday, October 5 from 10 a.m. – noon at UNLV (FDH 105)
• Sunday, October 6 from 10 a.m. – noon at UNLV (FDH 105)
• Sunday, October 13 from 10 a.m. – noon at UNLV, in the BMI Library (RLL 126)

If you are interested and available for all three sessions, please fill out this form.Depending on interest, there may be a waiting list. We will advise you of your admission status no later than Friday, September 20, 2024.

Questions? Email Black Mountain Institute’s Associate Director of Programs, Charlotte Wyatt, at charlotte.wyatt@unlv.edu.