Press Release #1

For Immediate Release 

Contact:
Phone:
email:

A Picture is Worth More Than a Thousand Words

If you’d like to expand your creative imagination, there’s a workshop coming to town you won’t want to miss. Award-winning author, photographer and workshop director Jan Phillips will be presenting an evening lecture and all day workshop entitled “Seeing Our Way Clear - Using Images to Expand the Creative Imagination” on May 26-27 in Carrolton, Georgia

Phillips, a resident of San Diego, is on a national book tour launching her latest book, God Is at Eye Level - Photography as a Healing Art.” Her last book, Marry Your Muse - Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity, won the prestigious 1998 Ben Franklin Award from the Publishers Marketing Association. “The workshop is for anyone, whether they take photographs or not,” says Phillips. “It’s about learning to look differently, to see more deeply and clearly into the vast potential of our lives. It’s an eye-opening experience, to say the least.”

The upbeat, hands-on workshop incorporates video, photographs, and music into an experience that explores both inner and outer landscapes. Participants learn to use images to tap into their creative imaginations and experience for themselves the healing power of a photograph. “We’re speeding through our lives at such velocity that we keep missing the essential sights,” says Phillips. “My aim is to slow us all down a bit and train our eye on the things that will feed and strengthen us.” Phillips has traveled around the world with her photographs, presenting workshops to over 10,000 people in 23 countries. She is also the author of Making Peace: One Woman’s Journey Around the World. Her books are available on www.amazon.com and you may visit her website at www.janphillips.com.

“Jan’s workshops are life-changing events,” says Carrolton resident Carol Boyd, workshop producer. “She did a workshop here last year and people are still talking about it. Jan deals with the bigger issues in life but she does it with lightness, humor, music. It’s a powerful experience.”

To register for the workshop or evening lecture,
call __________ .

Registration is limited so call early.
The price is $ ___________________.

###

Press release #2

This is a sample press release for workshop producers to use. You can copy this into your word processing program, change the details, and send it to your local newspaper.

Press Release

For Immediate Release

Date:
Photograph available
Contact:

Award-Winning Author Inspires Women to Reclaim Creativity

If you’ve been looking for some inspiration to help you to start, finish, or stay committed to a creative project, there’s a workshop coming up that’s bound to help. Award-winning author, photographer and workshop director Jan Phillips will be presenting Untying the (K)nots that Bind Us - Releasing and Expressing Our Creative Selves in Julian on Saturday, January 9 from 9 am to 4 pm.

Phillips is the author of Marry Your Muse - Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity,  winner of the 1998 Ben Franklin Award presented by the Publishers Marketing Assocation and the Athena Award presented by Mentor Magazine. She is also author of Making Peace - One Woman’s Journey Around the World, a chronicle of an 18 month global peace pilgrimage, and the forthcoming God Is At Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art.

 “Ask any woman about the inner voices that keep her from her creative work and chances are she’ll have a litany a mile long,” says writer/photographer Phillips. “They’re voices we inherit along the way, from our parents, our teachers, the culture, the church - voices that say “I’m not smart enough, I’m not good enough, I don’t have a story worth telling, I’m not creative, I shouldn’t stand out - they’re all (k)nots that keep us bound up and silent. And this workshop reckons with those voices, brings them out into the open, and reframes them into positive commitments.”

 Phillips has presented workshops to over 10,000 people around the world and is committed to creating an occasion of celebration and transformation. “Everyone of us was born with the potential for amazing creativity,” says Phillips, “and my work is to revive that awareness - not that we will all become self-supporting artists, but that our lives might assume the beauty of a work of art.”

Using art to stimulate art, she weaves poetry, music, video, and stories into a compelling presentation that touches the heart and opens new paths for creative expression. “As much as it is about doing, it is about undoing - undoing the fears and doubts that keep us from our work; undoing the beliefs that we are not artistic, not imaginative; undoing the false notion that we are not capable of expressing outwardly the truth and beauty contained within us.”

Her workshops and book are based on the Artist’s Creed, an affirming testament to the value of each person’s creative expressions. The Creed begins, “I believe I am worth the time it takes to create whatever I feel called to create...I believe my work is worthy of its own space...I believe I have the right to work in silence, uninterrupted, for as long as I choose...I believe that what it is I am called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready...I believe that the time I spend creating my art is as precious as the time I spend giving to others...”

“What the Creed does,” says Phillips,” is to take the excuses women have given for not creating and turn them into affirmations that support our work. It’s very powerful.”

For more information or to register for the workshop, call (619) 571-1417. The cost is $___. 

###