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Risograph Basics with Kate Bingaman-Burt

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland

Welcome to the Risograph Basics, Collage Experimentation and Mark Making Extravaganza! Participants will take home and edition of 15, 2-color 8.5x14 prints of your own design plus one print from all of the workshop participants (your own starter print collection!) Come and get to know Outlet's Barbara the Risograph as and her sisters Jolene, Lil' Tina, and Large Marge! Want to learn what Risograph printing is? Want to meet others who do too? Come and learn all about the basics of the Risograph in our two-color introduction workshop. The workshop will kick off with a Show & Tell of exactly what a Risograph can do with a printing demo, print and zine samples and a general exploration of how we can get the best results from this amazing…

$50 – $65

Writing Your Heart Wide Open: Winter Solstice Edition

You, whose heart sometimes aches in December. You, who longs for sacred winter rhythms: listen, write, dream, repeat. You who wishes not for hustle and bustle, but the soft hum of candlelit magic. You who welcomes dynamic stillness and knows that the bare bones of trees have gifts to bestow. You’re invited. A one-day writing retreat. Small group. Deep listening to/witnessing of each other. Ritual as a way in and out, honoring in particular, the Winter Solstice. Focus on crafting that particular story for which you need great courage (from the Latin "cor" - heart). Non-fiction, fiction, and form-defying feats of writing welcome. Plenty of time to actually write, to deepen, to revise. To give full time and attention to fully realizing one piece of…

$175