Residency – Intensive course in writing in nature
Intensive course in writing for artists, thinkers and makers of any kind
Retreat in Parc Natural de la Serra de Montsant
5 days including arrival and leaving – Monday-Friday – Program details
Current price including food and accommodation, excluding travel costs: E495,-.
Artists can apply for a stipend. (Write us for more information.)
The workshop consists of a calm arrival day on Monday, three days of intensive writing and feedback, one day of traveling back home on Friday. In addition to the workshops we do daily (optional) hikes in nature, we present, discuss our work over dinner.
Online information meeting to prepare the trip <link>
Spring 2025
May 02-06, 2025 – Writing for artists – Read more
May 8-12, 2025 – Writing for artists / Creative writing – mixed group – Read more
Group size min. 2, max. 6. We stay at Cal Boli or Casa Catalunya, Margalef de Montsant (map below), near Reus, Tarragona and Barcelona in Spain
5 days including arrival and leaving – Monday-Friday – read more
Program Tu-Th
07:30 – Simple breakfast available
09:00 – Excursion (optional hike)
11:00 – Course in writing
12:30 – Lunch
13:30 – Siesta & Working time
19:30 – Course in writing
20:30 – Presentations during Catalan ‘Cena’ (simple tapas meal)
Ester Eva Damen is a filmmaker with a background in the visual arts. In addition to the Film Academy (screenplay & direction) she studied at the Rijksacademy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam. She advises artists who want to develop a text about their own work in groups as well as in one to one sessions.
Margalef de Montsant is located south of (airfield) Barcelona at the height of Tarragona (a pleasant train or bus trip along the shore to Reus) and can be reached with a bus from (airfield) Reus, Spain. If you think about traveling by train, interrail to Reus might be a good suggestion.
Contact us before you make a booking.
Photos by Joris Berger and Dorota Radzimirska, 2022