Events and Information of Interest
Celebrating the Ordinary
A reading and workshop with poet and carpenter Clem Starck
Workshop:
Saturday, Feb 7, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Chemeketa Building 3, Room 118
Includes poetry, snack, and lunch
Readings:
Friday, Feb 6, 11:30am
Chemeketa Multicultural Center, Building 2Friday, Feb 6, 7:00pm
Blue Pepper Cafe, 247 Commercial SE, Salem, OR
Good news, everybody!
Celebrated Portland author Monica Drake (who wrote Clown Girl) will be visiting Chemeketa for a reading and a fiction workshop.
You can check out the postcard designed by Chemeketa’s VisComm students here.
And for those of you who would like to click through links but just don’t have the time, here’s the vital information:
The readings are free. The workshop costs $125 (lunch is included!), and you need to preregister using CRN 38712. Spaces are limited.
WORKSHOP
“Stolen Truth: Bringing Your Life into Fiction”
An interactive workshop with craft talk, writing time, examples, feedback, and more. No experience or prior writing necessary; just bring your memories and a pen. Saturday, November 8, 8:30am - 4:30pm
Multicultural Center, Building 2
READINGS
Friday, November 7, 11:30-12:20
Multicultural Center, Building 2
Friday, November 7, 7:30pm
Blue Pepper Cafe, 241 Commercial St NE
503-371-4600
Two days of Lawson Inada! Click here for more information.
And congratulations to Nicole E.F. Taylor, Erin Pfefferkuch, and Purcell Sisto, each of whom won a scholarship to attend the workshop Inada will be running this weekend.
What else were you planning to do on Halloween?
David Sedaris
A benefit for Literary Arts
Friday, October 31, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert HallDavid Sedaris, master of satire and social critique, returns to Portland on Halloween. He is the author of the bestselling books Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004). His next book of essays, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, will be published in June 2008.