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Courses for Spring 2012

In January I will once again be offering several courses in creativity at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. These courses, which are all interconnected around the theme of purposeful play, are designed to help learners discover, or rediscover, the authentic joy of intentional, self-directed learning. The courses are developed as collaborative spaces, as environments of exploration, as opportunities for each of us to claim the fundamental right of creative action.

I will be teaching three courses:

Mythological Narratives

This is a course in storytelling, culture, media, myth, and art. Participants will learn about the stories that we all carry, the stories that we love (and why), and the stories within us that we might have the courage to let out. For more information about this course, please visit the courses page.

Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts 4100

This is a course in creativity, in the meaning and purpose of our own creative energy, and in the many ways that we might explore and experiment with the joy of intentional creative action. For more information about this course, please visit the courses page.

Writing for New Forms and Media

This course explores the future of writing and publishing, and offers participants a set of skills to navigate the new landscapes of digital creativity and literature. If you are a writer or artist seeking to leverage your creativity onto the web, this course is for you. For more information about this course, please visit the courses page.


Who I am, What I do

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Press

  • “Laird is a philosopher... and a poet with a great gift for language.”

    — Lawrence Scanlan,
    The Globe and Mail

  • “Laird writes with the voice of a poet and the eye of an artist...his sentences are spare, transparent, unobtrusive vehicles of meaning. With his prose he achieves a rare melding of form with content.”

    — Marilyn Gear Pilling,
    The Hamilton Spectator

  • “It is useful to be reminded that there is another manner in which to live, a life more in tune with the rhythms of nature and the people around us, and yet responsive to the oldest of songs.”

    — Robert Wiersema
    The Georgia Straight