Creative Memorization
Monday, February 17, 2025: 6 – 9 pm ET
$97 – Limited to 12 participants
In this three-hourCreative Memorization workshop, you’ll experience the power of memorization as a creative discipline. Building on centuries-old traditions and personal practice, you’ll learn how memorization deepens your connection to language, strengthens your imaginative intelligence, and opens surprising new avenues of creativity.
Monday, February 17, 2025: 6 – 9 pm ET
$97 – Limited to 12 participants
In this three-hourCreative Memorization workshop, you’ll experience the power of memorization as a creative discipline. Building on centuries-old traditions and personal practice, you’ll learn how memorization deepens your connection to language, strengthens your imaginative intelligence, and opens surprising new avenues of creativity.
Monday, February 17, 2025: 6 – 9 pm ET
$97 – Limited to 12 participants
In this three-hourCreative Memorization workshop, you’ll experience the power of memorization as a creative discipline. Building on centuries-old traditions and personal practice, you’ll learn how memorization deepens your connection to language, strengthens your imaginative intelligence, and opens surprising new avenues of creativity.
Why join this workshop?
Memorization isn’t just about retaining words—it’s about awakening new dimensions of creativity and expression. In this intimate, hands-on workshop, you’ll discover how memorizing a single line can open a gateway to deeper emotional resonance and storytelling power. You’ll connect with the timeless human practice of committing words to heart, which builds intellectual resilience and inspires creative freedom.
Memorizing poetry is easier and more fun than you might think! You can’t force a garden to grow, and you can’t force a poem to take root in your heart. But if you cultivate it with love, it will become part of you.
What You’ll Gain:
Deeper Creative Flow: Learn how memorization becomes a wellspring for your writing, speaking, and artistic endeavors.
Enhanced Connection to Language: Experience how living with memorized words enriches your storytelling and expression.
Confidence in Your Voice: Transform performance anxiety into a tool for dynamic self-expression.
Practical Techniques: Leave with strategies you can incorporate into your daily life, from visualization to embodied repetition.
Emotional Insight: Tap into the emotional depth that memorized work brings, creating personal and creative breakthroughs.
Step away from the digital rush and into a profound practice that invites clarity, focus, and imaginative intelligence. Whether you’re a writer, performer, educator, or simply curious about the creative possibilities of memory, this workshop will offer you tools to elevate your craft and deepen your engagement with language.
Join us for this transformative session and experience how memorization can ignite your creative spark, word by word.
About Navé
If you’re here, you probably know that Navé is co-founder of Imaginative Storm, a poet and teacher. You may not know that he has memorized over 600 poems.
in 1984 Navé co-founded Poetry Alive!, which sent teams of poets into schools to perform classic poems as theater. Criss-crossing the country, Poetry Alive! teams reached 5 million children. After that, as one of the original participants in the Poetry Slam, he wrote, memorized, and performed his own poetry, getting a perfect 30 at the Green Mill in Chicago (the birthplace of the Slam) and placing in the National Finals as a member of the Asheville team.
To hear both Navé and Allegra perform poems from memory, visit our YouTube channel.