Angela Shelton is an acclaimed model, actress, writer, comedian, filmmaker and loud mouth. Angela has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, 48 Hours Investigates, NPR, Lifetime Television for Women and she has graced the cover of the New York Times.
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Searching for Angela Shelton is too important, too meaningful, too touching, TOO TERRIFIC to been seen casually. From the first frame to the last I was in turn riveted, weepy, drained, shattered, hopeful…and plenty of other emotions in between. You are one remarkable, talented lady. It took enormous courage, persistence, and honesty to pull this off. Most importantly, you managed to keep your sense of humor, and at the same time show a willingness to forgive. What an unbeatable combo! Congratulations! This film should be shown in every home, in every country, in the world. Bravo!Jake Eberts, producer
Though she takes on serious issues, Angela Shelton is joyous, irreverent, funny, and feisty!
ELLEN BASS, author of The Courage to Heal
With relentless honesty, humor and vitality, Angela Shelton opens the door for countless others to stop denying their pain, tell their stories, and join together in the revolutionary act of getting well and loving themselves. CHARLOTTE SOPHIA KASL, author of Women, Sex, and Addiction and Power, If the Buddha Dated
Please join the Facebook Group too if you search for Save the Egyptian. This is the theater where my first film premiered at Sundance so it is dear to my heart and I want to help as much as possible. Put your thinking caps on about how to help from various areas around the country… maybe get your local community theaters involved. Hmmmm…. anything is possible, a man just had a baby recently. Come on, we can save a theater!
I am all about women making money and if you can make it from your home while shopping for things you already shop for, then hallelujah! This video is of my friend Bob Sherwin explaining how Shop to Earn works. You can check out more information on my link: http://www.24hourtour.net/angelashelton.
MLMs have made me nervous in the past. The only one I ever signed up for was MonaVie because I truly love that juice and drink like it’s going out of style and I wanted the distributor’s discount. But ShopToEarth and ShopToEarn are different because there is no product to sell, you can shop for basically anything you want from hundreds of stores including Target, Sears, Home Depot and Barnes and Noble. I got an account because I shop online already and get everything from my airline tickets at Travelocity to my make-up at Cosmeticmall.com and I am slightly addicted to Target.com so the worst that could happen for me is that I save on what I spend already. When I saw that I could shop where I already shop, save and make passive income, I was sold. Bob explains it better and watching him save and make money got me all fired up too, plus I know how careful he is with his money and I trust him. I’ve already saved a bunch and just went on there to get another airline ticket last night. Oh joy! Check it out and if you’re interested, sign up under me because well, that would be fun and I live in the F zone. F = Fun! This is another fun way for women to save and make money btw! You can see my other post on that.
After years of traveling the US and abroad I’ve seen many common traits among women, mainly repeating old patterns either shown to us by our parents or guardians or put in place by abuse and/or neglect. The other pattern I see is women against women, so in an effort to help women unite and become stronger I’m sharing ways to become stronger yourself and ways to have stronger female bonds. I started a private list about Women and Money because I’ve spoken about trauma for the past 8 years and those in and/or around trauma usually have financial issues added to that. So I’m sharing links, tips, tricks, business ventures, investments and all kinds of ways to make, save and begin a new relationship with money as I learn the same things from my mentors. As this grows I’ll adapt it into one of the fancy emails I send out about angelashelton.com with photos and videos. If you want to receive it email women@angelashelton.com and request to be on the list.
In the meantime, here’s something funny and informative! http://maybeyoushouldntbuythat.com/
Thought I’d pass this along since I happen to adore Ellen Bass, Big Sur and the Esalen Institute:
WRITING AND KNOWING
6th Annual Poetry Workshop with
Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, and Joseph Millar
July 5-10, 2009
at Esalen, Big Sur, CA
What another would have done as well, do not do it.
What another would have said as well or written as well, do not say or write it.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself.
— Andre Gide
There is a world inside each of us that we know better than anything else, and a world outside of us that calls for our attention. Our subject matter is always right with us. The trick is to find out what we know, challenge what we know, own what we know, and then give it away in language.
We will write poems, share our writing, and hear what our work touches in others. We’ll also read model poems by contemporary poets and discuss aspects of the craft. But mainly this will be a writing retreat– time to explore and create in a supportive community. Though the focus is on poetry, prose writers who want to enrich their language will find it a fertile environment.
There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy…that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist… It is not your business to determine how good it is…It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. –Martha Graham
The focus of this workshop is on generating new poems. Dorianne, Joe and I will each give a short talk on craft to help us extend our skills.
The topics this year will be:
TRUTH AND BEAUTY–Joseph Millar: For Keats’s Urn, these were one and the same. We will look at poems by various contemporary masters with a view toward discovering whether one has ascendancy over the other, and what the tensions between them might mean to our own poetics (or general beliefs about writing).
THE PERSONAL UNIVERSE – Dorianne Laux: What makes your voice your own? What makes it uniquely yours? How does a poem create a feeling of intimacy with the reader? How can we make our poems daring, distinctive, unmistakably ours? Using the poems of Ruth Stone, a poet who is adept in all these matters, as examples, we’ll practice writing poems that discover and reflect our personal universe.
THE LIST POEM–Ellen Bass: Lists are irresistible. There were lists in the library of Alexandria and they’ve continued from the Bible to Homer, from the Elizabethans to Whitman, from Cole Porter to us. Writing a list poem can be a lot of fun because once you’ve got your theme, you can just keep thinking up more and more and more. We’ll look at a few list poems from the past and some contemporary catalogues, learning techniques to keep the tension high and the poem alive.
Please join us if:
*You’ve hit a plateau in your writing and want to break through to the next level.
*You’re just beginning and want to get started with supportive teachers.
*You’re an experienced writer and just want a chance to learn more from the best.
*You’re in a dry spell, due to lack of inspiration or time.
*You love to write and want a gorgeous, inspiring retreat.
Although the emphasis is on poetry, this workshop is open to prose writers too. Rich, textured, evocative language is the province of all writers, so this workshop will be applicable to writers of fiction and memoir as well.
Lastly, there’s Esalen itself. If you’ve been to Esalen before, you already know it’s one of the most magnificent places on the planet. If you haven’t, don’t postpone it. It’s breathtakingly beautiful and deeply nourishing. We’ll be having our group meetings in the Big House overlooking the Pacific. We’ll also be breaking into smaller groups for individual attention. Participants will have an opportunity to work with all three teachers.
ELLEN BASS’s most recent book of poems, The Human Line, was published by Copper Canyon Press in June 2007. She co-edited (with Florence Howe) the groundbreaking No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973), has published several volumes of poetry, including Mules of Love (BOA, 2002) which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Sun. She was awarded the Elliston Book Award for Poetry from the University of Cincinnati, Nimrod/Hardman’s Pablo Neruda Prize, The Missouri Review’s Larry Levis Award, the Greensboro Poetry Prize, the New Letters Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Poetry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Fellowship from the California Arts Council. She is also co-author of Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth (HarperCollins 1996) and The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Harper Collins 1988, 1994), which has sold over a million copies and has been translated into ten languages. She teaches in many beautiful locations and at Pacific University’s MFA Program in Oregon.
DORIANNE LAUX’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States in the previous year, and chosen by the Kansas City Star as one of the ten best books of poetry published in 2005. Laux is author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) introduced by Philip Levine, to be reprinted this year by Eastern Washington University Press, What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke, (2000). She is co-author of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997). Her work has appeared in the Best of the American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and has been twice included in Best American Poetry. She has been awarded with a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She waited tables and wrote poems in San Diego, L.A., Berkeley, Petaluma and Juneau, Alaska before moving to Eugene where she taught Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. She now teaches at Pacific University and at North Carolina State University in Raleigh where she lives with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.
JOSEPH MILLAR is the author of Fortune, from Eastern Washington University Press. Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa says “There’s a tenderness at the core of Fortune, where the commonplace becomes atypical and fantastical, and each poem possesses a voice that summons and reveals. Joseph Millar is a poet we can believe.” Millar grew up in Pennsylvania, attended Johns Hopkins University and spent 25 years in the San Francisco Bay area, working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. His first collection, Overtime (2001) was finalist for the Oregon Book Award and his poems have appeared in numerous magazines including TriQuarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, DoubleTake, Ploughshares, New Letters, Manoa, and River Styx. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry, the Moncalvo Center for the Arts and from Oregon Literary Arts. Millar teaches at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program.
Esalen fees cover tuition, food and lodging and vary according to accommodations–ranging from $570 to $1105. The least expensive rate is for sleeping bag space which can be very comfortable, but it’s limited, so you need to sign up for it early. Some work-scholarship assistance is available, as well as small prepayment discounts and senior discounts.
All arrangements and registration must be made directly with Esalen. If you have questions about the workshop itself, please email Ellen or call her at 831-426-8006.
I am doing a new program that I love! Call my mom to book me at 310-356-6808 or email joann@angelashelton.com.
Here is the new event for workshops and college campuses:
Ladies’ Night Only - addressing Women against Women
During her years on the road interviewing thousands of people Angela has seen many patterns among people. One of the main patterns she has witnessed among women is a battle between women. In this interactive presentation for women only Angela respectfully and humorously addresses women against women, shares powerful tools on how to move past the battle and opens up an insightful dialog about changing patterns in behavior that can dramatically transform your relationship to other women, yourself and the men in your life.
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