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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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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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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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Songwriting with Chris Funk

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Meets Mon/Weds 1-2:30pm | July 20, July 22, July 27, July 29, Aug 3, Aug 5, Aug 10, Aug 12 Do you write your own music, lyrics, or rhymes? Have you experimented with recording music at home? In this workshop, we’lldissect and analyze song forms together across different genres of music. What makes a song unique? What is the message of the lyrics? What’s the production quality and how was it arranged in the studio? Inspired by what we discover, we’ll challenge ourselves to write and record a new song each week. We’ll also be joined by guest artists and songwriters for QAs about their creative process. This workshop is geared towards students with some basic songwriting experience who’d like to take their skills to…

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Shapeshifting: Creating Authentic Characters with Randall Jahnson

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Meets Tues/Thurs 11am-12:30pm | Aug 11, Aug 13, Aug 18, Aug 20 To create believable characters, all successful artists, writers, directors, animators, and performers employ a unique ability that allows them to crawl into someone else’s skin, inhabit it, and express what it’s like to be that individual. We call this “shapeshifting.” This workshop will focus on how to use shapeshifting to make characters come alive in any medium. First, you will create a mindset, complete with complexity and a range of traits and emotions. Next, you’ll conjure a physical form, an appearance, a look. Then you’ll build an environment for your character, followed by the world itself, and the context for a story. Choose from writing and sketching to photography and film to render…

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WITS Reading: Parkrose High School

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Writers in the Schools (WITS) has served public high school students with creative writing residencies in Portland, and more recently Gresham, since 1996. Published local writers collaborate with classroom teachers to lead an immersive semester-long workshop series designed to further class themes, curricula, and student interests. Each residency culminates with a public reading, ordinarily held in a local café or bookstore. With distance learning, we look forward to hosting our reading on Zoom and invite you to join us in celebrating these students and their work. This end-of-residency reading will feature students who worked with WITS writers Carolina Goméz-Montoya, Matt Smith, and WITS apprentice CJ Wiggan. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAldeChrDksH9yeN1iWNV6EdY4e9eBe_qFU After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining…

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