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Only two places remain in a January 2005 residential writing workshop to be held in a country house set in a vineyard outside Santiago, Chile.
“The Reality Project” - the title of the workshop led by Toronto writer and editor Beth Follett - will examine the vocation and responsibility of the writer. Suggested reading includes works by Woolf, Chekhov, Rilke and Neruda … Time is set aside for writing and consultation.
The fourteen-day holiday will include trips to Pablo Neruda’s houses, the Pacific coast, Pre-Columbian museums, and the Andes Mountains.
Cost, including full board and side trips, is $100per day plus airfare.
For details on this (and other workshops) please phone
Susan Siddeley 416 968 0759
e-mail:
Los Parronales 14-day Writing Holiday - Jan 2005
Details:
Holiday Costs: Airfare plus a daily rate of $60 pounds sterling per person.
Daily Rate includes:
* Course fees for group of ten. Those not attending the course deduct $10 pounds
sterling per day.
* Bed, breakfast and evening meal.
* Lunch when the group is on the farm
* Travel for accompanied day-trips (excluding the cost of restaurant meals and entrance fees e.g. Neruda’s residences).
Meals:
* Breakfast: buffet style
* Lunch: salad, sandwiches, soup, empanadas
* Complimentary Happy Hour 6-8pm.
* Dinner: Three courses, served with wine
Day Trips to be chosen from:
* Coastal tour to Algorrobo and holiday resorts south of Valparaiso, including Pablo Neruda’s Isla Negra House
* Coastal trip to Valaparaiso, the port, Pablo Neruda’s port house, and Vina del Mar resort
* Visit to downtown Santiago including the Cathedral, Pre-Columbian Museum and Plaza de Armas
* A vineyard tour
* Lower Andes Foothills and Nature Park /Wild Life Sanctuary
* The bohemian Bella Vista district, Pablo Neruda’s Santiago House and evening.
Plus - A night out at the “Los Buenos Muchachos” folk-show restaurant
Available daily in free-time periods: walking, swimming, biking, games, horse riding.
To Bring:
* Sun-cream (suggested SPF 25+ strength) Most days in Jan/Feb are intensely sunny
* Phrasebook
* Jacket for evenings, sandals for beach and patio, walking shoes for trails
* Medical Insurance
NB: Single and double rooms are available - occupancy will depend on the group.
All have en-suite bathrooms or bathrooms shared between two bedrooms.
Travel:
Varig, Lan Chile, Iberia or Air France airlines have flights to Chile. They usually require a change of plane in Europe or Brazil.
Chile has a reciprocal one-time “life of passport” landing tax for Canadians and Australians of US$80. For US citizens the tax is US$100; British passport holders are exempt.
The Los Parronales courtesy bus/auto will meet all participants at the airport, and drop them off on return.
Parcela 50 - “Los Parronales”:
Los Parronales is a sixty-hectare parcela (farm) in El Noviciado a village on the western side of Santiago, Chile. The village is tucked in behind the international airport and a small range of hills enclosing Chile’s populous Central Valley. It is 7 kms off the main road leading to the port of Valparaiso and Vina del Mar on the Pacific Coast 100kms away.
The farm comprises fifteen acres of vineyard, fifteen acres of woodland (eucalyptus, pine, pimiento and aromo), fifty acres of grassy pasture and a bush-covered hillside. It is ideal for walking or riding, and enjoying the local flora and fauna.
The farmhouse is a two-storied colonial style building with a deep patio and a separate stone-fronted ‘games’ room, complete with a log-burning fireplace. The garden is large and hedged with privet, which cuts down on afternoon winds and creates an oasis of peace.
A rose bed containing a fountain faces the patio, whilst a splendid magnolia tree offers cooling shade. The swimming pool has a cactus rockery on one long side and flowerbeds filled with yellow marigolds and pink wallflowers on the other.
Attractive at all seasons, the garden is especially lovely in Spring (October/November) when the trees and flowers come into first bloom with bluebells, freesia, acacia and lavender.
The main living room has windows to both front (the garden) and back. The back overlooks a new lawn towards fields, which variously hold crops of potatoes, corn and grass. In the distance, and in full view, lie the majestic snow-tipped Andes Mountains.
The farm’s resident family lives close by in a separate house, which also has a shady garden and fruit trees.
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Los Parronales Writing Workshop
JAN 2005
Title: The Reality Project - Course leader - Beth Follett
“We will consider works by Neruda, Rilke, Solomon [Songs of], Chekhov and Virginia Woolf.
We will examine the vocation of the writer, the responsibility a writer has
for objectively witnessing the world and its manners, the human heart and
its morals, how a writer must know the complexities of the world even if
her characters and speakers do not.
We will ask ‘What is truth?’ and ‘How do we know it?’”
Beth Follett is the invited faculty at the Los Parronales writing holiday retreat planned for Santiago, Chile 2005.
Beth is a writer and editor, who for 8 years, has also been the full driving force behind Pedlar Press, a well-respected, independent Canadian literary publishing house.
She lives in Toronto.
Suggested reading list:
1. ‘To The Lighthouse’ [novel] Virginia Woolf
2. ‘The Beauties" [short story] Chekhov
3. ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ [prose] Rilke
4. ‘The Duino Elegies’ [poetry] Rilke
5. Pablo Neruda (anything)
6. ‘Autobiography of Red’ [prose poetry] Anne Carson
7. ‘Poetry as Persuasion’ [prose] Carl Dennis
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Application Form:
Please reserve me (us) a place at the writing workshop to be held in Los Parronales, El Noviciado, Santiago, Chile, from 9 - 22 January 2005.
Name: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I enclose a non-refundable cheque of $150 pounds sterling* per visitor, to be deducted from the final course and accommodation costs.
Signed: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Los Parronales will be happy to assist with any questions, but requests that each participant be responsible for travel arrangements to and from Santiago - noting that the earlier an airline booking is made, the easier it is to choose from available flights and fares.
Please mail this form to:
473 Ontario St. Toronto,
On. M4X 1M6. Canada.
*email for cost in US$
