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December BIPOC Writers Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For BIPOC writers Searching for a space to create new work with fellow BIPOC writers? This two-hour workshop meets on Zoom. A variety of prompts will be presented as avenues for generating and sharing new work in an informal setting. Open to BIPOC writers at all levels writing in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. Scholarships are available. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org for more information. Jacqueline Fitzgerald is a transformation coach, educator, and artist who centers healing, creativity, and embodied equity to cultivate collective belonging. After over a decade of experience as a teacher and facilitator in Portland area public schools, Jacque brings a trauma-informed, joyful, and loving approach to her values re-alignment work. Her writing has been published in The Oregonian, The Learning Network of…

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$10

Intro to InDesign

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

In this in-person Intro InDesign workshop, learn the basics of setting up a zine in InDesign. InDesign is a staple for book designers, zinesters and anyone looking to take their zines, chapbooks and publications to the next level. This guided tutorial will give participants an overview of some of InDesign’s most useful features and functions. Taught by Anthony Wylen $20-40 sliding scale. Register HERE.

$20 – $40

Write Now Online: The Narrative Braid w/ videos by Lidia Yuknavitch (Ongoing)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Write Now: The Narrative Braid - a four-week online workshop We’re bringing one of our most popular workshops online for those of you who can’t be with us in person. We know sometimes generative workshops can leave you with an overwhelming amount of raw material. In this four-part series (guided by videos featuring our resident mermaid Lidia Yuknavitch) you’ll read, get inspired and discover the germ of an idea, write it, revise it, and finish it—and for those interested in publication, we’ll offer strategies towards that end as well! Two versions of this course will be offered: Introvert’s Narrative Braid: For $99, you’ll receive access to the four “weeks” of videos that Lidia has created for this series, and you will take them each on…

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$99

Write Now Online: The Narrative Palimpsest w/ videos by Lidia Yuknavitch (Introvert Ongoing)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Write Now: The Narrative Palimpsest - a Four-Week Online Creative Incubator Extrovert Version Begins Saturday, March 13th What is a Narrative Palimpsest? pal·imp·sest /ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/ noun: palimpsest; plural noun: palimpsests a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. 


something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Origin: mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin ‘again’ + psēstos ‘rubbed smooth’ A narrative palimpsest is a story that carries LAYERS of meaning; meanings that carry the trace of each other a layer at a time, like an onion or something being uncovered through more than one strata. As if an idea or…

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$99

Comics Jam Sessions

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

Comics Jam Sessions Register here *This workshop is in-person. Masks + Proof of Vaccination/Booster Required In this 4-session comics workshop we will play with drawing, comics, making, and idea generation through collaborative creation, games and prompts. We will take advantage of being in space together to make things as a group and use each other as inspiration and co-artists. By the end of this workshop you’ll have more tools to create comics at home and maybe even the beginnings of a longer project. Taught by Marissa Perez Sundays, May 15th — June 5th

Free

Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma with Janice Lee —Begins June 5th

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma June 5 - July 2, 2022 (Synchronous Zoom sessions Mondays 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27) ***SOLD OUT! Email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com to add your name to the waitlist*** “What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James “How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong "Death needs a…

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$50

Wildwood Welcome: Zine Making with the IPRC with the Forest Park Conservancy

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

Join the IPRC for a **FREE** zine making event at Forest Park! Find more information and register here. Join us for an outdoor zine writing workshop! We supply the pen and paper, you bring your creativity.

Free
East Side Makers Showcase

EAST SIDE MAKERS SHOWCASE

Martha's Curiosity Shop 110 East Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale, OR, United States

June 25, 2022, Martha's Curiosity Shop and RACC present: Free workshops taught by local artisans in skateboard art and design, fiber arts, zines, collaborative painting, and printmaking Portland, Ore. — June 2, 2022 — Martha's Curiosity Shop and the Regional Arts and Culture Council present an all-ages (13-150) free event for the east Portland and Troutdale communities. June 25, 2022 from 12:30 to 5:30 PM local artisans in fiber arts, printmaking, skateboard art and design, collaborative painting, and zine making will present free workshops on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive by 12:30 to sign up. Workshops are capped at twenty participants each. The East Side Makers Showcase is the first event of its kind presented by Martha Grover and Martha's Curiosity Shop and aims at…

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Free

Zine-Making Workshop with Skate Like a Girl

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

MAKE A ZINE AT THE IPRC: In this two hour workshop, participants will learn about zines, and make a collaborative zine from start to finish: from content creation, to printing, assembling, and binding. This workshop provides a space for our women, trans, non-binary and/or gender non-conforming community to express themselves through the art of zine-making! Ages 16+ Register now: https://www.skatelikeagirl.com

$30

Summer Series: Recycled Paper Making

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

Recycled Paper Making Register here Instructor: Jenn Woodward of Pulp + Deckle This workshop is in person: Masks / Proof of Vaccination Required Capacity: 8 Sliding scale $10-55 2 no-cost spots available; BIPOC & 2S prioritized Sunday, June 26th 10:30-12:30 Want to learn how to make your own paper for art, books, or other fun projects? In this course we will focus on simple papermaking that you can do at home using an ordinary kitchen blender, picture frames, knitting hoops, and recycled paper- like test prints and junkmail. We’ll also use cookie cutters and stencils, try out some embedding/inclusions, and learn different drying techniques. Students are encouraged to bring dried plants, seeds, yarn and thread if they would like to add it to their paper.…

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$10 – $55
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