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Writing for Sketch Comedy with Dylan Reiff

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Meets Tues/Thurs 11am-12:30pm | June 23, June 25, June 30, July 2 What makes something funny? How does a comedy writer turn a funny idea into a fully fleshed out sketch? In this workshop, you’ll learn the basics of writing for sketch including brainstorming, sketch structure, “heightening” what’s funny, and how to draw on your experience of the world around you to express your own comedic voice. Includes guest visits from professional sketch writers. The final session will feature a table reading of our work. Dylan Reiff is the cofounder and Artistic Director of Kickstand Comedy. He is a teacher, writer and performer with over 15 years of experience in comedy, storytelling, and immersive theater. Reiff has performed across the country and has been featured…

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Free

The Art of Letting Go with Luz Elena Mendoza

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Meets Weds 11am-12:30pm | June 17, June 24, July 1, July 8 In this workshop, we’ll utilize collage making, poetry, and music as tools that can help us out carve out physical spaces to cultivate creativity and inspire self-expression. Using found materials and assemblage art techniques, our work will explore themes like gratitude, integrity, social justice, and self-love to shape and invigorate new possibilities into our artistic practices. Luz Elena Mendoza is a Chicana visual artist, musician, and music producer whose work explores themes of spirituality, metamorphoses, and shared humanity. This workshop mirrors Luz’s personal practice of creating visual art and poetry in tandem, “a beautiful, imperfect journey of self-discovery”. She is singer-songwriter for the band Y La Bamba. The Bodecker Foundation is pleased to…

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Free

A Writer in the World: An Online Prose Workshop (& more) with Sara Jaffe

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Registration deadline: June 15, 2020 As an instructor of creative writing for over a decade, I often find graduating students coming to me with a similar list of questions: How do I continue my writing practice outside of an academic setting? How do I become part of a writing community? How can I publish my work? Taken together, these concerns add up to one big, burning question: How do I figure out how to be a writer in the world? In this 7-week online class—part workshop, part forum, part resource-sharing assembly—we’ll touch on some of the key components of this admittedly huge question. We’ll practice strategies for generating work without hard deadlines, gain tools for revision, and explore both the broad map and the nooks…

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$200 – $400

ONLINE: So You Wanna Be a Writer Workshop w Wayne Gregory | June 25 – July 23

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ~ E. L. Doctorow You have a thousand stories inside your head. You dabble on the page but rarely if ever finish anything, much less share with others. “Is my work good enough?” you wonder.  “Do I have something original and interesting to say? What makes me think I can be a writer?”  The biggest obstacle for emerging writers is not lack of time nor lack of skill nor lack of things to write about. It’s a lack of self-confidence. This workshop is designed for those who want to be writers, but are not sure they can be. …

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$215 – $242

Summer 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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$185

Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

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 21 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 Mondays at noon and closes one hour before the workshop. Click here for more info. Wednesdays from 4 to 5:30 pm 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 due to the coronavirus. Register here. Thursdays from 11 am to…

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$5 – $30

Write Around Portland: Bi-Weekly Online Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

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 21 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 Mondays at noon and closes one hour before the workshop. Click here for more info. Wednesdays from 4 to 5:30 pm 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 due to the coronavirus. Register here. Thursdays from 11 am to…

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$5 – $30

Write Around Portland: Bi-Monthly BIPOC Online Writing Workshop

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For people who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC). 2nd & 4th Friday of every month from 4 to 5:30 pm, Free. Workshops are held via Zoom. Pre-registration is required. Pre-register for July 10, 2020 workshop here. Pre-register for July 24, 2020 workshop here. Click here for more workshop details. Write Around Portland provides high-quality, participant-centered, creative writing workshops. Most of our workshops run for ten weeks, two hours per week. The workshop curriculum focuses on experiential learning, generating new writing and building on the writers’ strengths. Workshop participants write stories, poems, memoirs, letters and essays while experimenting with imagery, character development, dialogue and early-draft revision. To build community through writing, our workshops are facilitated by extensively-trained volunteers who write and share alongside…

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Free

Summer 2020 Online: Finding Flow

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

“So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is the enemy of the good; it is also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.” ~Rebecca Solnit Carving time and space to be attentive to our creative practice can be daunting at anytime, during a pandemic, when we’re struggling to juggle all our roles it’s even more difficult. Not only do we have to make the time, which often means taking time away from our responsibilities, but then, once at our desk we must quiet our minds, we have to release the tight grip of the mind that stands in the way. In this workshop we’ll spend some time building tools and resources to relieve the overwhelming…

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$150

VIRTUAL Risograph Basics with Outlet!

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Welcome to our Risograph Basics course: a printing, collage, experimentation, and mark making extravaganza! Get to know Outlet and our RISO sisters (Barbara, Janet, Corita, and Tina) and learn the basics of this fun and unique print method with Kate Bingaman-Burt! IMPORTANT: Due to social distancing this class will be taught virtually via Zoom—more info on that below! About the Workshop: Want to learn what Risograph printing is? Want to meet others who do too? Join us to 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…

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$15 – $100
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