LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Writing the Script: An Exphrastic Writing Workshop

Carnation Contemporary 8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR, United States

How do we engage with visual art? Is there a way of fostering dialogue between the viewer and the art work? Can we create a script for deepening our experience of aesthetic appreciation, and as artists & writers can we use this as an opportunity to deepen our own creative practices? Join artist Katherine Spinella and poet Hajara Quinn to talk about creative practice, respond to ekphrastic prompts in conversation with the exhibition, and create your own script— an Ekphrastic Questionnaire of your own that you can take with you. The workshop will include a brief screen printing demo led by Katherine Spinella. RSVP @ https://www.digitalexhibition.space/publicpresence > 20 person limit > Cost: FREE > Jun 15, 11:00 – 1:00 PM > Carnation Contemporary, 8371 N…

Free

It Tells You: Poetry to Script Workshop with Laura Houlberg

third room 707 NE Broadway (Suite 205), Portland, OR, United States

it’s back! It Tells You: Poetry to Script workshop with @lo__lands this August. Learn screenwriting fundamentals! Adapt a poem to a short script! Give & receive helpful peer feedback! Present final piece to your friends! Poetry is for everyone, screenwriting is for everyone, we have a right to visual culture and story telling is ours! We deserve our humanity in image! $25-50 sliding scale, no one turned away! Sign up link bio :-)

$25 – $50

Drop-in Writing Workshop for BIPOC Writers with Anya Pearson

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This is one of four online workshops for BIPOC writers designed to help you generate new material, refine an existing draft, or simply discover the permission to call yourself a writer. We will gather on Zoom on the first Tuesday of each month (September-December) and hold space for each other, creating a community with other BIPOC writers. Think of this as a playpen and creative incubator to support you as you generate writing and navigate building a creative practice and life in the arts. We will write together using specific prompts. We’ll bounce ideas off each other, share our work in progress, and hold space for the fullness of who we are. Sign up for one, two, three, or all four sessions. Additional sessions are listed below or on…

$5 – $30