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Gridlords Presents a Collaborative Comics Evening

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

Gridlords is a Portland Based comics publisher and event organizer. This event is hosted by the IPRC, on April 15th, from 6:30-8:30 pm. In celebration of Portland’s own Comics Month, Gridlords would like to bring together the larger DIY comics community of Portland for a night of creative mixing and making. The goal is to make a collected anthology of pieces in one night. There will be stations with drawing games, prompts, and templates to follow. It is essentially a comics relay where we are all winners at the end of the race. It’s a time to collaborate amongst friends and peers and make magic happen. It’s a time to celebrate comics among the silliest and the cartooniest of humans.  It is an event to…

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Free

Workshop: Jeanne Faulkner

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

“How to Get Published” Hosted by writer, author & podcaster, Jeanne Faulkner. $25 (Snacks provided, buy your own drinks). RSVP at jeannefaulkner.com or just show up!

$25

Intro to Risograph Printing

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

In this 4-hour introductory course, participants will learn the basics of risograph (riso) printing and will leave with an understanding of how to use this print technology to create zines, fliers, posters, or other printed matter. While this technology is not new, riso printing has recently become one of the most exciting developments in independent printing and publishing because of its cost-effectiveness for print runs between 25 and 1,000. Workshop participants will learn how to best maximize the many quirks of riso printing to achieve striking results. Participants are also encouraged to bring files of artwork that they’d like to print (files should be 100% grayscale, letter or tabloid size). For more information on riso printing and the modern riso resurgence, check out the riso wiki.…

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$100 – $200

Corporeal Writing Online – Queer Bodies/Queer Forms: Leaving Behind the Retrograde

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

An 8-week online workshop STARTS: April 22, 2019 COST: $350 (scholarships available - preference to queer/trans POC writers - click here to apply) Cooper Lee Bombardier says: “To me, queer is expansive, queer is hybrid, queer is taking what works and leaves behind the retrograde.” Yes, for many queer is also an identity but you don’t have to identify as queer to benefit from a look at queer forms, or attempting to queer your own work. We’ll look at work that might be considered queer in content as well as form, and will embark on multiple generative writing “experiments” where we try on the forms and constraints studied, enter into conversation with them, become inspired by them, apply them to our own creative voices, and invent our own…

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$350

Poem-a-Day: How to Write a Connected Series

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

A Chapbook in a Month – POEM-A-DAY: HOW TO WRITE A CONNECTED SERIES with Penelope Scambly Schott In this workshop we will discuss how to create an extended body of work that goes together, whether by topic or tone or sequence.  Poet Penelope Scambly Schott (author of NOVEMBER QUILT and other books) will briefly describe her process and results. Then we as a group will brainstorm topics and approaches. We will each experiment with an organizing idea and make notes toward a first poem in our own possible new series. If participants are interested, we can plan to meet again in about a month to see what we’ve done. Group limit: 15. Cost: $28. Prerequisites: none. To sign up email Penelope: penelopeschott@comcast.net

$28

The Poet’s Toolkit Part 2: Shape – Kate Gray

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

During poetry month, honor your tender and fierce heart. Add tools to your poetry toolkit. You’ll start with sound, how your words can change your reader’s body. No experience necessary. You’ll write and share in a tremendously safe environment, using the Gateless Method. This workshop will give you practical ways to distinguish this writing form from others, practice in applying the tool, and the light to show you how brilliantly you shine. Part 1 of 3: Sound (Monday, April 15th, 6-8pm) Part 2 of 3: Shape Part 3 of 3: Sense (Wednesday, May 1, 6-8pm) All sessions will be held in the loft at Another Read Through. Register for each part a la carte on a sliding scale ($60-80), or for all three at a…

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Free

The Witnesses the Wayward & the Way with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

PCC Southeast Campus 2305 SE 82nd and Division, Portland, OR, United States

The Witnesses the Wayward and the Way Workshop with Alexis Pauline Gumbs! April 26th, 2019- 10am-12pm Portland Community College-Southeast in Mt. Tabor Hall (room 146). The Witnesses the Wayward and the Way is an interactive writing workshop accountable to survivors of sexual violence and those seeking to create a world free from sexual violence. ***Priority registration is working to give space for student survivors from, historically oppressed, underrepresented communities, and holding marginalized identities (QTIBPOC) to be at the front. Drawing from Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity Alexis Pauline Gumbs will prompt participants to write individually and in pairs about survival, speaking out and supporting each other. Participants should be prepared to listen to each other deeply, engage their own and others writing and to…

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Free

Corporeal Writing Spring Seasonal Workshop w/ Lidia Yuknavitch, April 26 – 28 *Sold Out*

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

SPRING: Reinventing & Restorying Seeds. Planting. Budding. Growth. Composting. Renewal, remembering, remaking. Shared work, discussion, bring your body, your writing, your art, and a willingness to leave your comfort zone. We will blow your existing work up as well as open up future options you didn’t even know were there – everything you’ve ever written has at least five more ideas in it. THE NITTY GRITTY: limited to 12 participants. Each participant may submit up to 10 double-spaced pages for feedback; each participant is also responsible for reading all pages from group and participating in verbal feedback collaboration. Participants must submit their work two weeks ahead of workshop; Lidia will provide us with some alternative reading, commenting, and feedback instructions. Workshop Leader: Lidia Yuknavitch Co-Facilitated by: Domi…

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$400

Corporeal Writing Online – Soma & Sense w/ Brigid Yuknavitch: 4/28/19

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

STARTS: 4/28/19 WHERE: Online, for 6-weeks LEADER: Brigid Yuknavitch COST: $350 Soma and Sense These experiments are in writing process. Each follows symbols you encounter through your sensing body. Somatic experiences hold imagery and stories. We all have different modalities that are strongest in our imaginations and psyches. Our individual and collective poetics can show up in the ways we dream. One sense may be stronger for you than another, like smell or taste, and carry your memory and imagination far (as Marcel Proust explored). Some senses are earlier than others like smell and hearing. Shamans journey and experience extraordinary reality in different sensory modalities. Some people hear a voice to write, and others find their process in images, or rhythms. And, working in more…

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$350

Last Sunday Writing Workshop

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Last Sunday @ The Stacks will be powered by Dovesong Labs, and your workshop instructor will be jayy dodd. These workshops are available to all on a drop-in basis and all skill levels are welcome. The workshop will begin with some instruction and presentation by the workshop leader, and there will also be time to write, so please bring your pen/paper/laptop/typewriter. $5 suggested donation.

Free – $5
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