Our Offerings Are Going Online
We finished our first online offering and are working on our next courses. Have an idea for an online course offering? Email us at Contact@aspaciousplace.com.
Young Writers Club
We are 3rd - 8th graders with BIG imaginations (we'll accept some eager younger writers after consultation) 
who meet every first Saturday at 1:00 pm, beginning September 11th, to play with words!! There is a $45 annual fee for dues, food, field trips, and supplies. We will engage in a group experience, such as taking a field trip or cooking, and use that experience as a jumping off point for our writing!
ALL children who love words and/or love to imagine are welcome—we will be doing our writing by hand, by dictation (using a microphone), by typing into a computer, or by dictation, as we so choose! This is going to be a BLAST, please invite any children you know!!!
Next meeting: November 5, 2011
Writer of the Month Hint: Painted herself in a corner before she started to write, then was space napped, and now lives with a dog in a 200-year-old farmhouse.
Click here to sign up your writer.
Creativity/Spirituality Journal
Online Journal: A Spacious Place is creating an online journal. If you wish to submit a scholarly piece related to creativity and/or spirituality, please submit your piece to Contact@aspaciousplace.com.
Gifted2Give
Create your own holiday gifts!
Location: Mary Lee Southpointe
1339 Lamar Square Drive
Austin, Texas 78704
Sundays, Nov. 6 & 13 2—5 pm
Come and go or come and stay either or both days. Free admission
Enjoy gift making, theme basket silent auction, music, and refreshments
Tailgate Offerings
A Spacious Place enjoys loading the trunks of our vehicles with creative goodies and motoring out to group homes, apartment complexes, camp sites, churches, and campuses. We provide opportunities for creative and spiritual expression to persons who have developmental delays, persons in transitional or low-income housing, and children, to name just a few. We simply get in our cars and follow the need. If you know of an organization that might benefit from A Spacious Place's Tailgate Offerings, we'd love to hear from you! Contact kaye@aspaciousplace.com.
Ongoing Offerings
Click here for more information on Spiritual Direction.
PAST COURSES
"Roar of Love"
A study of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Facilitated by David Gentiles, "Roar of Love" was a five week class that involved discussion of the Chronicles with a comical pretest to begin each session. To view the pretests and test your knowledge, click here.
David is a graduate of Baylor University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is currently the associate pastor at Journey Imperfect Faith Community, the father of three amazing daughters—Ariele, Hannah and Calla—, an incurable Cleveland Indians baseball fan and a lover of chocolate milk.
Switching Lenses: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary through Photography
Through the lens of an ordinary point-and-shoot camera, we learned how to explore the beauty that surrounds us every day and how to use the computer to transform your photos into works of art.
Jim Sipowicz was the arts guide for this course. Jim is a graphic artist and the owner of Shell Media, a fine art print company. Jim is also a gifted photographer.
Agony & Ecstasy: An Arts Journey Through the Human Soul
Using visual and musical art pieces that depict the redemptive power of suffering, we journeyed through the agonies and ecstasies of the human soul.
Our guide for this course was Carlye Brookshire. Carlye has a degree in art studies and has been an art teacher for both elementary and high school-aged students.
Creative Journaling Workshop
(with apologizes to Charlie Daniels)Nathan came down to Austin,
looking for a workshop to lead.
We all had pen and paper;
He got us up to speed.
Oh well, bad verse aside, our participants explored questions like "What makes a great title or first line?" "Are poets born or bred?" and "What is art?" They wrote and they read. They described the weekend as inspiring and transformative. Thanks, Nathan! Click here to view testimonials and creative writing pieces from attendees of our previous writing weekend.
A Home of Her Own
Our thanks to Jane Manning who did a dramatic reading of her original play and to Cy Young, her husband, for composing the musical score.
Thank you to the food artists who provided us delicious treats with a story side dish and to our visual artists who displayed their work and shared their proceeds with A Spacious Place.
Thanks to our performing musicians and all who came to support creative people in their creative work.