Lyrical Provence: A Creative Writing Workshop with Mark Ari - This workshop will take advantage of the remarkable Provençal surroundings to celebrate the five senses. You will be given exercises to tune your perceptiveness, divine the telling detail, and provoke the resources of memory and imagination. In short scenes and lyrical prose pieces you will explore the sounds and structures that make your language most fully your own.

Eastern Visions: Painting and Drawing in Turkey with Louise Freshman Brown - The workshop will take place in Istanbul, the eternal crossroads between Europe and Asia, and in Datça, an Aegean coastal paradise.

Balkan Bounty: Painting and Drawing in Istrian Croatia with Louise Freshman Brown - Join us on a trip to the Balkans! We will be based at a country villa in Istria, Croatia, surrounded by farms, vineyards and olive orchards.

A Food & Wine Tour of Lyon and the Rhone Valley - Radius Workshops is pleased to present our second Lyon Food and Wine Tour. The tour will take place June 13-20, 2011. The group will spend five days in and around Lyon and two days on excursions to the vineyards of Beaujolais, Côtes du Rhône and Burgundy. Our voyage will be a Tour de Force of eating and drinking but also a seminar on food culture and society. We will attend cooking demonstrations, kitchen tours, visit the glorious food markets and participate in cooking classes. We will explore some of the best wine producing regions in the world, and sample the wine and the cuisine of the area.