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Epistemologies Online Workshop w/ Leigh Hopkins – Starts May 16

Online N/A, Portland

EPISTEMOLOGIES: Writing to Unmake and Remake Meaning WORKSHOP LEADERS: These workshops are led collaboratively, because we believe in it! Lidia Yuknavitch is featured via video in both workshops, every week, while Leigh Hopkins will be available for questions, discussions, and will provide you with written feedback. You will receive written leader feedback at least 3 times. WHERE & WHEN: Start Date of 5/16/20. Each workshop is 6 weeks, and takes place on an interactive online platform. HOW: Each week will have a video of Lidia discussing making writing as an epistemological act, complete with prompts and writing assignments so that you too can write the body as an epistemological site—a site where human meaning is made anew, by you. You post your response to the…

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$400

Compose Creative Writing Conference

Online N/A, Portland

Explore the practices and professions of creative writing and publishing at Clackamas Community College’s annual Compose Creative Writing Conference, hosted by CCC's English Department. Compose 2020 — online and FREE this year "See what can be found for remedy and comfort by writing stories down" - Kim Stafford, Compose 2020 keynote speaker Saturday, May 16, 10 a.m. Cost: Free! Location: Online. Details on accessing the conference via Zoom will be provided to registered attendees. This event has reached capacity and registration is now closed. Calling all writers and lovers of the written word. The annual Compose Creative Writing Conference is going online! The May 16 conference is offered for free and entirely online this year. Join Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford as he delivers his keynote address, "Who…

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Free

Oregon Reads Aloud: A SMART Read-A-Thon

Online N/A, Portland

There is nothing more familiar and comforting than reading aloud together. On May 16, the SMART Reading community invites you into our living rooms for the longest SMART Reading session ever, Oregon Reads Aloud: A SMART Read-A-Thon. Join us here and on YouTube Live, where SMART Reading supporters, community leaders, and volunteers will be reading popular children's book titles from 10am to 10pm to celebrate and support Oregon's youngest readers. Now, more than ever, we know that providing books to our students is critical. Our goal is to raise $30,000 by the end of the day on May 16 to provide a book for every student in SMART Reading across the state. Here's how you can help:  1. Tune in on May 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cSGJU4T7vc&feature=youtu.be 2.…

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Free
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