Panel Practices

Love is in the air!

 

For the first time, the writers, poets, artists, and editors of Panel are coming together to share their craft.

This February and March, we are excited to host our first workshop series, Panel Practices.  This time, our theme is love.

Love for a place. For a language. For craft. For people.

Senior editor of Panel Rachel Velsher will host a practical, supportive workshop Loving Your Craft: The Art and Science of Proofreading & Editing designed to help writers approach editing with confidence rather than dread. Participants will explore editing as both a technical skill and a creative practice, learning how to improve clarity, structure, and correctness without losing voice or momentum. Through guided examples and short hands-on activities, the workshop breaks editing into manageable stages, making the process feel purposeful, efficient, and achievable.  The workshop will take place on February 10, in Oktatoterem (Astoria), 18.30-21.00. Sign up here! 

Publisher of Panel, writer Masha Kamenetskaya will host a writing workshop Writing About L*ve in A Second Language about what happens to our voice when we write in a language and a place that are not our own. Rather than seeing non-native writing as a difficulty, we will treat it as a source of sensitivity, and creative power. The workshop consists of writing practice, discussions, and exploring the phenomenon of writing and loving in a second language. The workshop will take place on February, 25, in Oktatoterem (Astoria), 19.00. - 21.30. Sign up here! 

The workshop by artist and art teacher Olga Lo, Drawing as a Way to Connect with Place, focuses not on drawing skills, but on attention, observation, and connecting with the city through drawing. The workshop consists of two sessions. Workshop 1- Café Session (March 7, 11.00 - 13.00) at Kepen Coffee Shop, when the participants will personalize sketchbooks, explore simple drawing and collage techniques, and slow down to observe the place around them.

Workshop 2 - Urban Session (March 21, 11.00 - 13.00), when the participants will draw on location, focusing on atmosphere, everyday scenes, and personal experience of the city. No prior drawing experience required. Follow Olga's Instagram for the registration form and updates.

In the workshop titled The Digital Alchemist, art director of Panel Maria Gyarmati invites participants to move beyond seeing AI as a "shortcut" and instead view it as a collaborative partner that amplifies human creativity.  The participants will explore, why human-centric design matters more than ever in an automated world, how we can use generative AI for instant assets, copy, and layout architecture, how we can create something unique from scratch in minutes. Let’s fall in love with building for the web all over again! The workshop will take place in the end of March. Follow Maria's Instagram for the updates.

Photographer Daria Ra will host a photography workshop Love Letters to the City: Storytelling through photography in Budapest. Participants will learn, how to find stories without staging, how to photograph emotion, not events, how to build a visual narrative (beginning–middle–end), how to photograph love indirectly (objects, gestures, traces), how to create a personal relationship with a place. The workshop will take place in the end of March. Follow Daria's Instagram for the updates.

All workshops will be held in English.

We will share individual announcements for each workshop with full details soon.
We hope you’ll join us.

From Panel,
With love