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Portland Zine Symposium: #virtualpzs

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Time isn’t real, the year 2020 is an exhausting tornado, and on July 11th and 12th, #virtualpzs will be happening on the internet. We are currently in planning stages, but below is a list of some of our programming. We have not yet set a schedule, but all programming will take place between 11am-6pm on July 11th and 12th. Radical Animal-Style Singalong Kids of all ages and kids at hearts are invited to join Sine in the animal kingdom for a radical singalong to lift our spirits, soothe our hearts, and share some laughter and fun! Come with your best animal costume, noises, snacks, and dance moves and get ready to roar! Interactive Story Time (Children ages 2-5 and their families) Join the Portland Childcare…

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Free

Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

4-Week Online Workshop starting July 12th, 2020 “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 How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to…

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$350

Is Time Real?: A Zine Share

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

* Reminder * Registration is required. Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOUyTp8LtSbZYSyxclM4D6QDAJjU9d_U8fMQY4jnsRCm1Huw/viewform IS TIME REAL?: A Zine Share Join this group of talented zinesters, including Martha Grover, Meli Nava of Navaja Press, Alex Kostiw, Breena Nuñez, and Eileen Chavez, as they share their work at this zine reading hosted by the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC). Sunday, 12pm to 1pm. Free.

Free

SUMMER Online: Micro Memoir Workshop II w Matthew Dickman | July 12 – Aug 9 FULL — WAIT LIST ONLY

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The smallest moment can profoundly change your life, a smell briefly caught on a walk can send you back in time, objects hold whole multi-histories and as the writer Jay Ponteri says "memories nest inside other memories". In this 5 week class we will be exploring memory and the tools of the memoir genre to write our own "Micro-Memoirs". These will be 1-5 page prose pieces. We will also be reading a lot of outside examples of this and writing together in class. This class is open to all writers, whether you identify as a poet, fiction, or creative non-fiction writer. Whoever you are let's all explore together! | Maximum: 12 writers NOTE: Writers may take this class without having previously taken Micro Memoir I. Register for this…

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$215 – $242

Moving with Every 1st reading

6766 SE 78th Ave 6766 SE 78th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

No bookstore readings possible, and I have a need to read, so will be reading in the schoolyard across from my house, near corner of 78th and Cooper. Plenty of space for distancing. you might want to bring something to sit on. I will read for 20-30 minutes. Poet & teacher Leanne Grabel says of Moving with Every "dan raphael's world is a world where decimal points become poppy seeds, rivers hurl their fish bones at the stars, eagles drink at the bar, starling play pool, bass riffs twitch like perches, the wind, pocketless, collects things anyway, crows wear edwardian capes, hair is infested with sun, a sun that later gets stuck in traffic. The descriptions are impeccable." right next to Jade Garden, Melba's 100…

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Free

Truth & Dare: Experiments in Art & Writing with Laura Moulton

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Meets Mon/Weds 11am-12:30pm | July 13, July 15, July 20, July 22, July 27, July 29 In this course, we’ll explore work by contemporary artists and writers and generate our own projects both on the page and in the world. Each week you’ll choose one truth and one dare and work toward a final project that will be a culmination in the medium of your choice. The only rule: follow what you are most curious about. Our workshop will include fun writing prompts, research and lively reports-from-the-field, and group-think collaborations. “Homework” may include adventures like graffiti harvesting, doing anonymous good, writing a short story about a nightclub singer in love with an armadillo, or sending something via postal mail. Laura Moulton is a writer and…

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Free

Jenara Nerenberg in Conversation With Maya Dusenbery

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Jenara Nerenberg’s Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You (HarperOne) is a paradigm-shifting exploration of neurodivergent women — those with autism, ADHD, synesthesia, and other sensory processing differences — offering a timely, provocative examination of why these traits are overlooked in women and how our society can benefit from allowing their unique strengths to flourish. As a smart, successful, Harvard- and Berkeley-educated writer and devoted mother, Nerenberg didn’t discover her autism and ADHD until well into her adulthood, after it had already taken a huge toll on her personal and professional life. Being a journalist, she dove into the research and discovered neurodiversity — a movement which seeks to stop pathologizing "normal" and "abnormal" brains and start embracing the variety of…

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Free

SUMMER Online: Poets Studio Summer Sessions | July 13 – Aug 31

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Apps due July 8 One of the things I feel Poets Studio participants, regardless of experience and skill, can benefit from, is an extended concentration on only a few pieces over a couple months. That’s my goal for the Summer Sessions, which would progress as follows: Sessions 1-3: Making. We’ll start from scratch on a few poems, developing strategies of imagination, research, trial and error, and writing several “test” drafts over several weeks. Sessions 4-6: Noticing. Here we’ll begin to be attentive to what might be possible with various drafts of poems, in the writing process — noticing what they are doing and not doing, what they are implying and avoiding, and what they are potentially able to become, and what they can’t ever become…

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$505 – $535

The Work Poetry Workshop on Zoom with Christopher Luna

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

NOTE: Due to the restrictions to keep us safe from the Coronavirus, The Work will continue as a remote workshop via Zoom. Please email Christopher Luna at christopherjluna@gmail.com by midnight the night before each workshop to RSVP if you would like to participate. Also, please share this event with others who might be interested. The cost for the workshop is a suggested donation of $20 to Christopher Luna’s PayPal account. Suggested means that we would like for you to join us regardless of whether or not you can afford it right now. MONDAY NIGHT EDITION Join us on Monday, July 13 for The Work. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion,…

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Free – $20
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