Presenting to the Whole Damn World Wide Web: WOOLFCAMP!

Remember all my talk about being social in 2006?  And maybe doing a writers retreat at Chez State of Grace in hippy dip Santa Cruz?  Well, looka here, I'm true to my word:  I'm throwing my house open for a do-it-yourself literary/writing/blogging retreat over President's Day weekend.  Yo!

I invite you, Dear Readers and Interested Parties, to WoolfCamp, Winter 2006, Saturday, 2/18 and Sunday 2/19:

Behold, our tee shirt/schwag logo and image of our muse, Virginia Woolf, Her Very Self.

The "camp" concept is based on the barcamp and brainjam innovative models of conferencing- cooperative, participatory, zero bureaucracy, zero power tripping, total immersion, big fun.

Historically, these camps and jams have been geek-based.  WoolfCamp will differ in  providing a focus on the creative aspects of blog content.  The goal is to help each other with writing on our blogs, in whatever form we wish to explore - memoirs, creative non-fiction, fiction, poetics.

And if a geek or two wants to join up and help me decide, once and for all, on which RSS feed I should be using, that geek will be welcomed.

Now, to sign up, you will need to go to the wiki that Badgerbag lovingly hacked for us.  DO NOT FEAR THE WIKI.  THE WIKI LOVES YOU.  It's a cinch, really.  If it's not a cinch, email me and I will guide you gently and without judgment.

As is the nature of these camp events, logistics may evolve.  For example, if the number of participants exceeds the capacity of my home (we're talking 30-40 max), we'll seek an alternate setting.  The date, however, is solid and will not change.

Note - this is the "Winter" WoolfCamp.  If it's a hit, I'll do another in the Summer, or earlier, or later.  See? It's ever evolving.

Come, evolve with us.  Come teach, come learn, come eat a lot of M&Ms, come hang out. 

World peace through blogging,
GraceD

Comments

[Jenijen]

I want to go!! I will not fear the wiki, here I go!!

[Jenijen]

Yeah, so the wiki, scared me shitless. I will talk to you about this next week!

[GraceD]

Oh, Jen, I screwed up the wiki linkage. I corrected it. Now, go back! The wiki is your friend!

[nina]

My heart is breaking that I cannot attend! That is the kidlet's birthday weekend, and I must throw a big turning-seven bash for him. Then later that week, we are going to visit many large corporate theme parks in your lovely state. Waaaaaa!

[Denise]

This morning TW said to me, "You can just tell Grace she SUCKS." I laughed and asked why. She said "She's doing this really awesome thing and I'm pretty sure we can't go."

I'm finally here and looking and I have to say:

Grace, you suck. Cause we can't attend! Jealous. Jealous. Jealous. No fair, no fair, no fair.

But good luck, even if your fans in Florida are pouting.

[Jo]

Can't WAIT.

I'll teach a seminar called "Self-Authorship of Pern, and Your Mother."

[badger]

Mine will be "Booth Babe Bloggers of Pern". Y'know, every panel title should end in "of Pern".

Anyway I didn't "hack" the wiki! It pops out of Zeus's head fully formed, thanks to the dudes at Socialtext. Unless by "hack" you meant "write an email to support@socialtext and ask them to push the set-up-an-eventspace-button" on the free account they gave me to fool around with because they totally rock and they love creativity, and also b/c I showed Peter Kaminski my punk rock underwear, which, as you well know, is the key to my success in all social interaction.

[Jo]

We should definitely have some kind of event in which Badger shows her underwear. Of Pern.

[elswhere]

Damn! I can't go! My dad's coming that weekend. I mean, I love my dad, but...damn.

But, summer! When are you doing the summer one, you think? Right before or after BlogHer? You think??

[Denise]

Booth Babe Bloggers of Pern hahahahaha could you keep this quiet or I will not be able to keep TW at home where she belongs. Geez.

[badgerbag]

It'll be the flakiest, nerdiest blogging pajama party ever!

[minnie]

i want to go too. i'm not a writer but i am a blogger.
i'll teach a workshp called "how to take photos of your underwear and write about it on your blog all while drinking K'lah"

also one called "how to blog while wearing a bathrobe stolen from the Chaminade"

[samirah]

Oooh! I wanna go!!!! I wanna go!!! I love Virginia Woolf (though not as much as Sylvia Plath. Can you make a Plathcamp?)
Damn school and being entirely across the country or I would totally go.

[Denise]

ok samirah we need to do Plathcamp on the east coast! I prefer Plath too.

[Jo]

Plathcamp, well, just seems kind of... culty somehow...

Besides sounding like a cat with a hairball. Not that I have anything against Sylvia Plath or anything.

[badgerbag]

As if "WoolfCamp" doesn't also sound like a hairball!

[samirah]

Hey there is no mocking of plathcamp! I'm pretty sure that's a law somewhere. Also, yay for east coast depressed poetry lovers! woo.

[whump]

Wouldn't it be JarCamp instead of PlathCamp?

[Jenijen]

Grace, I can go!!! I am so happy, but i still, even with the correct link, have some wiki fear, because I am a giant geek, but not in the usual smart way, just the plain geek way. Can I reserve a spot somewhere? I have friends in santa cruz i can stay with if you are all full up. I should email. I will.

[Jo]

I've looked at the schedule, and it's all good except that I think we should "smash the patriarchy" far, far earlier than just before lunch on Sunday.

[squid]

I would love to come for Sunday, or part of Sunday. I could stay longer if I could bring 14-month old Mali (I am still very much her moo-cow), but understand totally if that is contrary to the spirit of things.

[GraceD]

I now pronounce WoolfCamp as a kid friendly space.

Squid, Mali will BE the Spirit of Things.

[badgerbag]

I have modified the schedule to include "Coo at baby" and "Pass baby around" on Sunday!

http://www.socialtext.net/woolfcamp/index.cgi?working_schedule

[e]

yay! baby!

[Jo]

I added a line at the end where we will "Create a blog for the baby entitled 'Woolf.'"