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Workshop: Step Into Storytelling

Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capital Highway, Portland

Led by Barbara Fankhauser and Ken Iverson An introduction to the basic principles of storytelling. Using fun exercises, interactive games, and shared resources, you’ll love end up telling a story and sharing your experience with the group. You won’t find a gentler, safer, easier way to step into storytelling than these three, happy hours. Useful to those who are newer to this craft, this is also an opportunity for experienced storytellers to reflect on their work and sharpen their skills. Barbara’s stories come from her life, her imagination, the richness of her Celtic and Norse roots. She believes that, at the heart of it, the stories of one are the stories of all. Loving how stories bring people together, Ken has delighted audiences for over…

$25 – $30

The Work Poetry Workshop: Saturday Edition

Niche Wine Bar 1013 Main St, Vancouver

“Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.” ― Allen Ginsberg, “Memory Gardens” (Fall of America, City Lights) The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Beginning in January 2019, we will meet three times per month: on the second Saturday afternoon of each month at Niche Wine Bar, and the second and fourth Monday evening at Angst Gallery (1015 Main Street), unless otherwise noted. Join us on Saturday, January 12 for The Work, a monthly poetry writing workshop at Niche Wine Bar led by Christopher Luna. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion, and sparks the shifts in consciousness which can lead to…

Free

The League of Exceptional Writers

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

In “Writing from Your Family Tree,” Hannah Holt, author of The Diamond and the Boy, shows how to find, research, and write stories about people in your family tree. Hosted by Rosanne Parry, the League of Exceptional Writers is a monthly workshop where authors and illustrators share their knowledge with kids, ages 8 to 18 years old, who are interested in creating books. Join us!

Free