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FALL Online: Self-Portraits: Writing from Life w David Biespiel

Online N/A, Portland

This workshop, led by Attic Institute founder David Biespiel, is the kind of study every writer needs, from beginners to the most advanced. It's an opportunity to write from studying your own self-portrait via photos, drawings, snapshots, b&ws, candids, distortions, &c. The workshop approach empahsizes the concept of obseravtional writing as a direct route to achieve new imaginative possibilities, whether you're writng fiction, memoir, or poems. The approach demands careful observation and the translation of those observations into clear and precise notes, jottings, and studies. Self-portrait writing is one of the foundational skill sets that all writers should practice. It hones your concentration on details and the language that comes from those details, and it releases you into new zones for your memories and projections to emerge. Our focus will…

$155 – $175

On Becoming 2 / Earth / Aitken

Online N/A, Portland

Becoming Earth, Feat. Neil Aitken: Mapping Loss, Desire, and Place - Sunday, September 27th / 4-6pm / Free Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85455519411 Meeting ID: 854 5551 9411 Please note this is a BIPOC only space. Thank you 🙏🏽 - Dust, ash, stone, and soil. Elemental and foundational. The earth is not only where we are, but also part of who we are. We are defined by our ties to the land, as well as how the land shapes us. We carry as well the memories of lands we've left behind. Land that only exists in memory. Language grows out of this fraught relationship with external and internal spaces. In this generative workshop, we will take inspiration from the language of plate tectonics, geological formations, natural paths,…

Free

Belly of the World: a Creative Writing & Critical Discussion Workshop

Online N/A, Portland

IPRC Creative Workshops for Fall 2020 will be held online via zoom, PST. Belly of the World is a writing and discussion-based journaling workshop that deals in writing a biomythography of queer and trans living in both relation and entangled non-relation to the external world. We will hold group workshops on what it means for queer and trans bodies to be “in the world, and not of it” through our crafting of personal poems and reimagining of our own narratives and scripts. This workshop is designed for black, brown and indigenous women, femmes and trans folks. Instructor: loose cornrows Sundays 6-8pm PST: Sept. 20th & 27th, Oct. 4th & 11th Class capacity: 15 Class meetings: 4 Cost: $50 *3 spots available at sliding scale, BIPOC…

$50