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Risograph Basics with Kate Bingaman-Burt & Outlet Assistants!

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

Welcome to the Risograph Basics, Collage Experimentation and Mark Making Extravaganza! Participants will take home and edition of 2-color 8.5x11 prints of your own design plus one print from all of the workshop participants (your own starter print collection!) REGISTER HERE! Come and get to know Outlet's Barbara the Risograph and her sisters Lil' Tina and Janet! Want to learn what Risograph printing is? Want to meet others who do too? Come and 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 amazing printing machine.…

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$50 – $65

The Dramatist’s Toolbox with Matthew B. Zrebski

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

The class meets for four (4) Saturdays 11/16 – 12/14 no class on 11/30 Designed as an intro for the beginner or as a brush-up for the seasoned writer, this course focuses heavily on tools that will spark ideas on both what to write and how to write.  Writer's block will never again be an excuse as numerous prompts and brainstorming exercises get introduced to keep the ideas flowing.  Each writer will end this course with a minimum of two, ten-minute plays.  They will also walk out with a notebook of exercises for future reference.  No preparation is required.  All material will be developed and written in class.  Bringing an electronic device that can connect to the internet will be helpful so as to access online…

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$130

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

Kids’ Storytime

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty.

Free

PUBLISHING: w/ Literary Agent Rayhané Sanders

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

We have the great privilege of hosting Rayhané Sanders, literary agent at Massie and McQuilkin, for a limited amount of twenty-minute 1-on-1 consultations spread across three days, November 15-17. (Yes, Rayhané represents our own Lidia Yuknavitch.) In these personal meetings, she will give you feedback from an agent’s point of view on the first 30 pages of your manuscript. (A note: Ms. Sanders comes from New York publishing, and is very encouraging but also direct!) The deadline for submitting your 30 pages will be November 1st. The cost of a 1-on-1 consultation is $350. Not in Portland? Ms. Sanders will be available for 1-on-1 consults over Skype! In addition, Ms. Sanders will be offering a publishing seminar on Saturday November 16th. Come to this seminar…

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$150

Zine Workshop

Hillsboro Public Library - Brookwood 2850 NE Brookwood Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR, United States

What’s a Zine? Zines are small self-published works that use text and/or images to discuss art, poetry, fandom, personal stories and more. Join us in making zines and sharing your own unique voice with the world!

Free

The Work Poetry Workshop with Christopher Luna: Saturday Edition

Niche Wine Bar 1013 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

“Well, while I’m here I’ll do the work — and what’s the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.” ― Allen Ginsberg, “Memory Gardens” (Fall of America, City Lights) Join us on Saturday, November 16 for The Work, a monthly poetry writing workshop at Niche Wine Bar led by Christopher Luna. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion, and sparks the shifts in consciousness which can lead to healing, personal growth, and an interest in fighting for progressive social change. I look forward to sharing my passion for poetry with you. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. We will read and discuss poetry, and write several new poems together from 11:30-2:00. Doors open…

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Free – $20

Graphic Novel Release Party with Mike Lawrence!

Green Bean Books 1600 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a graphic novel release party with local sensation, Mike Lawrence! He will be sharing the third book in his Star Scout series, The Invasion of the Scuttlebots! Get a signed copy while you are here!

Free

WORDS AND PICTURES : A workshop w/ Anis Mojgani

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

So much of writing poetry is a combination of putting together different elements, whether congruous or not, to see what their juxtaposition creates in the imagination of the reader; of deciding what to put on the page and what to leave absent; and how these decisions give space for readers to become an active part of what they are reading. What happens when we add pictures into the mix, whether simple or complex ones? What poetic spaces in the writer and reader are created with these combinations? What sort of poems become poems when words and pictures are put together? Writing poetry often begins simply by letting something from inside unfurl untethered to reveal its shape to you, and then picking up to see what it…

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$25
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