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Youth Intro to Screenprinting

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Join us to learn about silkscreen printing! Learn how to create stencils, prep and process screens while gaining knowledge about tools, tips, and tricks for the photo emulsion process. You’ll have the chance to acquire best practices for setting up your print station, printing and registration while gaining practice with the medium. Our studio area uses only water-based silkscreen inks and is a primarily a non-toxic studio environment. $50-125 Sliding Scale

$50 – $125

Drink and Write Tuesdays: Drop in Writer’s Workshop

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Drop in between 5:30 and 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and spend your happy hour writing. Hosted by Jeanne Faulkner who provides prompts, tips, coaching, and community. Your bring your computer and notebook, buy your drinks at the bar, and get started. $10 optional contribution to the host.

Free – $10

Learn Make Share: Bindfast Training

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

In this Learn Make Share, folks will be guided through the steps to bind a book using our Bindfast machine. Everyone will have a chance to practice using the paper stack cutter to prepare pages and bind 2-3 books. ** This LMS is part of a monthly series of trainings for the Bindfast. Once trained, members are certified to bind their own books during listed Bindfast open hours with volunteer support. *Free for IPRC members taking the workshop as one of 3 annual Learn Make Shares *$5-15 sliding scale for nonmembers, or for members who have already taken their 3 annual workshop. Payment taken at front desk. *LMS facilitators are volunteering their time–donations made directly to facilitator also encouraged! Register Here

$5 – $15

Intro to Letterpress: Two Day Workshop

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Day 1: Typesetting Essentials Day 2: Printing Essentials Learn to set moveable type and print on table top and poster presses in the IPRC print shop. You’ll learn the vocabulary of printing and typesetting while getting a feel for this beautiful and historic process. Gain access to IPRCs collection of over 150 fonts of lead and wood type. Leave the class with a printed card and the satisfaction that comes with using 100 year old equipment! Successful completion of this 1 day class grants IPRC Studio Members access to open studio print hours so you can keep on printing. Nonmembers and Basic Members receive one trial month of Studio Membership after completion of the course. 2 Day Workshop Saturday & Sunday 10 am – 2…

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$150 – $250

CANCELED – A Workshop for Transforming Personal Narrative into Theater

Portland Center Stage 128 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

From 9 Parts of Desire to verbatim documentary plays, audiences adore the theater of personal narrative. But what is the process of listening to someone's story and turning it into a performance? In this workshop, participants will interview each other, paying attention not only to plot points but also gesture, posture, and vocal inflection. Participants will then have an opportunity to perform their interviewee's story as their interviewee, and to see their own stories performed by someone else. Lindsey Mantoan is a an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Resident Dramaturg at Linfield College. Her book, War as Performance: Conflicts in Iraq and Political Theatricality, analyzes the plays and performances that responded to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

$40

Liminal Writing Online w/ Sonya Lea

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Launches Saturday April 4th Online Four Weeks in Length ***In light of the current coronavirus crisis, Sonya has re-recorded audio elements of this workshop to specifically address the liminal space we are all living in right now. In addition, a limited number of sliding scale enrollments are available. If you have been financially impacted by the current situation, please write to Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com to inquire.*** Writing The Liminal Liminal means threshold, and liminal experiences are transitional, a suspension in identity, time, or community. We’ll write our way into dreams, ritual, wilderness, birth, death, visions, ghosts, tricksters, crossroads, revolutions, and all kinds of collapses of the status quo. You’ll come away with tools to help you work with your liminal experiences in writing. Week one: Definitions of thresholds, threshold/outlier experiences, and an…

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$350

VIRTUAL IPRC: Guided Visualization for Inner Exploration Workshop #1

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Guided Visualizations for Inner Exploration Workshop #1: Exploring fear and overwhelm during times of uncertainty In this Future Feels workshop series, facilitated by Grace Mervin, we will be deepening our understanding of our emotions, our creativity, and ourselves through guided visualizations and reflective prompts. The first in this series of workshops will focus on exploring fear and overwhelm. Link to Zoom meetup here Link to Guided Visualization Handout #1 here Link to facebook event to rsvp here $5-15 Suggested Donation: Venmo @endoplazmic

Free – $15

Spring 2020 Online: Starting The Story: Short Fiction workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This 4 -week short fiction workshop will focus on generating new work and simply getting words down on a page.  We will read excerpts, share just-written work aloud, and discuss assigned weekly readings together. We will investigate ways to unearth material together and share strategies for maintaining a regular writing practice. Participants will leave will many fragments and several starts for new work.  This class takes place through Zoom. Participants will receive instructions on how to log on to the Zoom meetings. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions. SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: Scholarships pay for the entire class tuition. All of our writing classes have at least one scholarship position available, made possible by a generous gift from Dennis Steinman. To apply, email Susan…

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$175
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