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Improv Rules for Writers Workshop (presented by Bigfoot Reg.)

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

Improv Rules For Writers 3 Simple Rules Making More, Better, Faster, Writing Without Anxiety Skyler Reed, Editor at Moved By Words (http://www.movedbywords.org) All Levels All Genres / Writing Styles Includes Optional Feedback Component Send a note to skyler@movedbywords.org if you want to send all-genre/all-style work of up to 10 pages in advance to be discussed in class or after class Drawing from a diverse background of both musical and stage improvisation, Skyler Reed presents a new kind of writing workshop that focuses on how you can say ‘yes’ to every word you write and become consistently re-generative and joyful in your writing process by introducing improvisation techniques into your own work. Create work that is meaningful and ‘yes’-filled from the first word to the last,…

Free

Taxonomy Based Writing Workshop (presented by Bigfoot Regional)

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

Our surroundings provide us with wonder. Language blossoms from the same roots the flowers do. This generative writing workshop will use floral native to Oregon as inspiration for blossoming new work. Event hosted by Jayy Dodd. This event is free and open to the public as part of The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, a two-day poetry festival and competition happening in Downtown Portland.

Free

Performance Workshop with Doc Luben (presented by Bigfoot Reg.)

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

This upbeat, nuts-and-bolts performance workshop will focus on how to amplify your own unique power and rhythms to connect more deeply with your audience, and how to steer around the unconscious habits and blocks that keep your beautiful, ugly, important poems from being heard as they deserve to be. Doc Luben draws on decades of experience in performance and coaching to sharpen and energize the storytelling aspect of your spoken word. Participation is invited but not required. This event is free and open to the public as part of The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, a two-day poetry festival and competition happening in Downtown Portland.

Free

.:LOOP:. A Corporeal Writing Jag

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Come to Corporeal Center on Sat, July 20th for .:LOOP:. Quarterly Reading Series, where we will have a spectacular lineup of readers. Meet some of your favorite writers from Portland and afar, all of whom have been in collaboration with Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing alternative to traditional modes of learning! See the lineup in the graphic above! [Lineup: Becca Bell Gurwitz, Carol Fischbach, Intisar Abioto, Jason Glover, Mark Gross, Robi, Sadie Fuchswild, Tracy Burkholder]

Free – $5