LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland

Writing is often thought of as something done in isolation; we know there is immense power when writing is done in community. Join us for 90 minutes of creativity and community-building, with generative writing exercises, sharing and strengths-based feedback. Our workshop model, refined over 22 years, is proven for people of all writing levels: from the budding writer to the published author. Workshops are held via Zoom. Weekly registration opens 5 days before each session and closes one hour before the workshop. Click here for more info. Mondays from 3 to 4:30 pm (Pacific Time) Sliding Scale Registration $5-$30. Register here. $0 registration available for past Write Around Portland participants at a social service agency and people experiencing financial hardship. Register here. Thursdays from 11 am to…

$5 – $30

Illuminated Manuscripts :: A decoration of story w/ Katie Collins-Guinn

Online N/A, Portland

WHAT: A five-week online collaboration where we’ll explore the beauty of decorated writings, and create our own versions. WITH: Katie Collins-Guinn WHEN: Thursday, April 8th @6:30pm PT Wednesday, April 14th @6:30pm PT, Thursday, April 22nd @6:30pm PT, Thursday, April 29th @6:30pm PT & Thursday, May 6th @6:30pm PT. WHERE: ZOOM (But of course.) Meeting ID will be provided each morning of meet days. HOW MUCH: $230, with a capacity of twelve writers/artists. Payment plans are available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com SCHOLARSHIPS: Click here to apply. In this five week collaboration we will explore the histories and variations of this story-telling artform, while using what we discover as direct inspiration for our own versions. Historically, artists and scribes would create their own pigments, hides and…

$230

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Eileen Davis Elliott

Online N/A, Portland

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Eileen Davis Elliott Hosted by Christopher Luna and Morgan Paige 7 pm Thursday, April 8 On Zoom $5 Suggested donation LGBTQ+ FRIENDLY, PRO-SCIENCE, ANTI-FASCIST, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004 https://printedmattervancouver.com/2021/03/21/ghost-town-poetry-open-mic-on-zoom-featuring-eileen-davis-elliott-april-8-2021/ Please support Niche Wine Bar, whose owner, Leah Jackson, has provided a home for the reading series since 2015: https://nichewinebar.com Eileen Davis Elliott is a poet and visual artist from Vancouver, WA where she retired from a career in mental health. She has just released Pobrecitos, a collaborative work written by Eileen Davis Elliott and illustrated by Lily Engblom-Stryker and Ava Town, students from Vancouver School of Arts and Academics who shared and expanded the messages of the written work focusing on the marginalized from all over the…

Free – $5