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Variety Show on Zoooooom

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a virtual show. This week's performers include: Music and Poetry from Skyler Reed Reading from Leah Baer and Portland history from Doug Decker Please consider contributing to this live virtual event with an optional cover fee here: https://www.rosecitybookpub.com/shop/optional-cover-fee-for-virtual-events-5-suggested Please note, you must register before the meeting. We know it's a little inconvenient, but we'd like to have a zoom-bomber-free experience.

Free – $5

Epistemologies Online Workshop w/ Leigh Hopkins – Starts May 16

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

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, OR, United States

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, OR, United States

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

Spring 2020: Filling the Well

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Meets online via Zoom. A generative class for beginning and experienced writers who want to be writing but feel stuck on an ongoing project or are fresh out of ideas. The class will explore tools that get the voices flowing (like Anne Lamott’s Shitty First Drafts and opening/beginning strategies from James Scott Bell’s Plot and Structure), alongside fun and challenging prompts that serve as jolts to the imagination to get you writing. At the end of the course, students will have the opportunity to turn one of the exercises they worked on in class into a short piece and receive feedback from the instructor.  This class meets online via Zoom and registered participants will receive information on how to access the meeting a week before the class starts. Kristina Tate is…

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$175

On Becoming 1 / Lost and Found / Tolentino

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Whitenoise Project presents a new BIPOC writing workshop: On Becoming, where we explore the state of becoming as a state of infinite potential and evolution, to contrast with the static essentialism of being. Becoming is a verb with a consistency all its own; it does not reduce to, or lead back to, "appearing," "being," "equaling," or producing."(Deleuze/Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 39). zoom registration link posted soon! stay tuned. workshop description: how we are lost in space and time. How we find ourselves. How becoming "lost and found" is a present participle, an ongoing act rather than a linear act that can be completed. This is as literal as a new immigrant learning the physical space of their new world. How we orient ourselves with cardinal…

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Free

Pomodoro: Writing Alone Together with Natalie Serber

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Writers, having trouble focusing? Getting words on the page when our lives are so topsy turvy can be hard. There’s newsfeeds to check, social media to refresh, bread to bake, tomatoes to plant, homeschooling and another zoom meeting/happy hour to attend. Enter the pomodoro, named after the famous kitchen timer in the shape of a tomato. This free event takes place on Zoom, using the “audio only” option. If you’d like to participate, follow this link to register. Please note you need to register every time you attend: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/upQlduqsrj4v-xYNxRuLuks78mGeEz44uA Each session is limited to 25 people. From your host, Natalie Serber: Each Wednesday, from 12:30 – 2:30, we’ll virtually meet for a focused window of writing and community. We’ll have a quick hello, share a…

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Free

Your Next Good Read? Let a teen tell you!

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Are you in a reading rut? Do you love a good YA novel? Teen council members from St. Johns and Hollywood libraries, and librarians Alicia and Danielle will tell you about the books they've loved. Join us for a lively presentation, and be prepared to fill your To Be Read list with great titles! Register and join this event virtually Call into this event by dialing 1-415-655-0001 Access code- 922 456 367

Free

HOCUS Reading: The Tarot

Rose City Coffee Co. - Brooklyn Park 3370 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR, United States

HOCUS is a quarterly reading event in the guise of a secret society. Our reading events are simultaneously silly and serious. "Hilarious," "profound," "close to the bone," and "goofy" are all words which were bandied about by attendees of our last event.

Free

Happy Hour with OSU

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Marty Brown, from OSU Press, joins us to talk about some of their most exciting releases this season and next! To register and attend, visit this link: https://www.tworiversbooks.com/event/happy-hour-osu-press To get a peak at the books we'll be discussing, visit our website: https://www.tworiversbooks.com/happy-hour-osu-press

Free
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