Aren A. Morris is a Halifax-based arts educator and novelist. She has been writing, directing, facilitating, and producing student theatre in education for decades and now works with Halifax Regional Arts. She loves finding ways to incorporate the Performing Arts into Curriculum Delivery and collaborating with local artists within schools.
Aren’s debut, WE HAPPY FEW, is a historical fiction novel taking place in Halifax, NS at the end of the Second World War and was released in May 2022. She has just completed a first draft of her second novel (another historical fiction set in NS) and has twice participated in “Just My Type”, an improvised typewriter poetry fundraiser for the WFNS.
Her non-fiction writing has been published in The Teacher (NSTU), Central, Sunrise Trail, and Canadian Teacher magazines.
She also serves as author co-ordinator for Read By The Sea Literary Festival and and is co-host of The Fantastic Grown Up Book Fair.
Community Building
One of the most important things you can do at the start of your school year or group gathering is to build a positive community where everyone feels they belong. While this takes time, energy and a consistent effort, both facilitators and participants will reap the benefits of a space where relationships are built not only between facilitator and participant, but also among the participants themselves.
Join Aren, a former high school drama/dance educator, current Fine Arts Specialist P-12, historical fiction novelist and gatherer of creative types to explore how the use of ensemble building techniques from the world of improv, dance and theatre can be used in any gathering space to build a community where confidence, trust, self-expression and working together are paramount.
Using items & stories found in the museum, participants will conduct basic local and historical research and find ways to naturally weave that information into their writing. Applicable in all genres and all skill levels where the writer wishes to infuse fact seamlessly into their writing.
Available as a fundraiser for regional museums across NS. Facilitated by author Aren A. Morris & hosted by museum curator.
A fun, energetic workshop where participants explore the art of improvised storytelling. Great way to shake off the cobwebs, battle writer's block and exercise your storytelling muscles in a new ways. Useful for all genres and skill levels.
Length - 90 min. Group sizes flexible. The perfect workshop for classrooms, writing groups & creative retreats.
