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DWP 2019: Designing your Story in AR/VR for Maximum Impact and Engagement with Frank Spillers

The Evergreen 618 SE Alder St, Portland

A strong narrative is a fundamental aspect of any meaningful experience with immersive virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Storytelling is quickly emerging as a key UX design skill for designing immersive experiences. While VR storytelling is typically equated with 3D filmmaking, it actually has a place in both AR and VR. In this presentation we will learn how AR and VR can benefit from good storytelling UX design. We will cover 7 essential VR storytelling techniques that anyone designing for VR UX can benefit from! In this session, we will explore the power and importance of storytelling in collaborative virtual environments with social VR/AR especially when critical decision-making is on the line: in healthcare, training, sustainability and in both B2C and B2B experiences.…

Free

Tuesday Memoir Writing with Christopher Luna

Clark College Memoir Writing 500 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Vancouver

Clark College Memoir Writing 500 Broadway Street Suite 200 Vancouver, WA 98660 Metered Parking: $ 0.50 / hr Everyone has a story to tell. Each person’s life is filled with adventure, mystery, trouble, and triumph. Memoir is a powerful way to demonstrate the interconnectedness of all human beings. See yourself as a part of history, documenting the story of your life. TUESDAY CLASS Register for Tuesdays: https://ecd.clark.edu/classes/class.php?SKU=9411 Downtown Campus 9411 Tuesdays 4/9/2019- 6/11/2019 1:00PM- 3:20PM $259 CCE 208 This class also takes place on Thursdays: THURSDAY CLASS Register for Thursdays: https://ecd.clark.edu/classes/class.php?SKU=9412 Downtown Campus 9412 Thursdays 4/11/2019- 6/13/2019 1:00PM- 3:20PM $259 CCE 208 Follow your bliss this Spring. Take a writing workshop with Christopher Luna. Christopher has an MFA in Writing and Poetics from the Jack…

$259

Family Poetry Circle

Multnomah County Library - Holgate Library 7905 SE Holgate Boulevard, Portland

Bring the whole family for a celebration of poetry during National Poetry Month. Local poets will read poems geared toward both adults and children. Take home a poem to learn by heart together! About the poets: Melissa Reeser Poulin writes poems and essays. Her new chapbook, Rupture, Light (Finishing Line Press 2019) is a collection of poems about motherhood and growth. More at https://melissareeserpoulin.com. Caitlin Dwyer is a writer from Portland. Her poetry has appeared in Talking River, the Notre Dame Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Quiddity, Thrush, and others. She writes poetry, literary journalism, essays, and occasionally science fiction. First come, first served. View this event on our website: https://multcolib.org/events/family-poetry-circle/99690

Free

DWP 2019: Designing for the Ear: The Best of Podcasts and Audio Storytelling

University of Oregon - Portland 70 NW Couch St, Portland

Podcasting has steadily grown in popularity over the last two decades and its growth is now booming in both producers and listeners. As with many emerging and evolving industries, standards and guidelines remain elusive while experimentation is wonderfully abundant. From daily news segments to fictional long-form stories, the growing number of high-quality podcasts is vying for the attention of the listening public. In this session, Designing for the Ear, we will present and discuss the current trends and needs to help us better understand this new ecosystem of podcasts and audio storytelling. We invite thoughtful podcast producers and audio storytellers to share their storytelling craft in using audio interviews, script writing for the ear, and sound design. Confirmed Speakers -Kaitlin Prest of The Heart (Radiotopia)…

Free

Poetry Workshop w/ Zachary Schomburg

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland

Come join Zachary Schomburg this spring at Outlet for a six week Poetry workshop. This will be a generative poetry workshop for poets at all levels. The main focus will be to sustain a poetry writing practice for six weeks with access to a small group of focused readers. After each workshop, Zachary will give the group a prompt/assignment to complete for the week, one that addresses some aspect of poetry writing brought up in your group conversations. The participants will spend the beginning of the following week's workshop discussing your experiences with the assignment. The workshop will be capped at 6 people, so everyone will get about 20 minutes of focused group discussion of their own new work at each meeting. The class will meet once per…

$200

Black Place: Community Memory and Conversation

Multnomah County Library - North Portland Meeting Room 512 N Killingsworth Street, Portland

Our Black family photographs help us to remember not only our own stories, but those of our community and its history in Portland. We come together to learn and talk about Black Portland’s past and present, by looking at photos, videos, and listening to stories that have been collected, and think about how we might save these materials for our community. Join Humboldt neighborhood artists-in-residence the Black Life Experiential Research Group, along with Black community photographers, for conversation about photos, memory-keeping, and the meaning of Black neighborhood history in our changing city. Bring your favorite pictures too!

Free

Collage Night

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

Join us for the return of Collage Night, on the second Tuesday of the month. Glue sticks, scissors and collage materials will be provided. Free and open to the public.

Free

Kate Ristau presents Clockbreakers Two: Morrigan’s Revenge

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Portland author Kate Ristau presents Morrigan's Revenge, the sequel to her Middle Grade debut, Clockbreakers. Charlie's dad is gone, and she's on a magic adventure to get him back! But first – fifth grade. She rolls her wheelchair into her classroom and then straight into an Ancient Irish battle. But this is not the time travel she expected. Betrayed by her friends, Charlie faces the wrath of the goddess, Morrigan, and the warriors think she is one of the fairies. Can Cuchulain -- the hero of Irish folklore -- help? Or will she be trapped back in an ancient myth forever?

Free

Michio Kaku

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility – and a necessity. In The Future of Humanity (Anchor), world-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, Kaku takes readers on an exhilarating and inspiring journey to a future in which humanity may finally fulfill its long-awaited destiny among the stars.

Free

Science Fiction Book Group

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

This month we meet to discuss Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor. Join us!

Free

Tim Johnston

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community’s memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river 10 years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and “unforgettable” by critics, returns with The Current (Algonquin), a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people.

Free

Wendy Willis and David Biespiel

Daedalus Books 2074 NW Flanders St, Portland

Wendy Willis is a poet and essayist from Portland, Oregon. She is also the Founder and Director of Oregon’s Kitchen Table, a program of the National Policy Consensus Center (in the Hatfield School of Government) at Portland State University and the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, a global network of organizations and leading scholars working in the field of deliberation and public engagement. Her next book of essays, These are Strange Times, My Dear, was released in February. Her last book of poems, A Long Late Pledge, is a finalist for the 2019 Oregon Book Award. David Biespiel is the author of eleven books, including Republic Café, published in 2019, The Education of a Young Poet, which was selected a Best Books for…

Free

JVC NW Book Club: Americanah

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

All are welcome to join our discussion of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.

Free