Monthly Archives: May 2011

Scene Writing Workshop Offered June 18

Jennifer Lauck to lead scene writing workshop

Join us Saturday, June 18, 2011, from 10am to 3pm to learn scene writing in seven steps!

Learn the key ingredients to formulating the single most important aspect of good writing – the scene. Jennifer has created a recipe all writers can follow in order to create juicy, tactile, focused and depth-filled scenes. All levels and all genres welcome.

Jennifer Lauck is an award winning journalist and the author of the New York Times Bestseller Blackbird. Featured on The Oprah Show, Winfrey told her audience, “this should have been a Book of the Month book. Read it now!”

Her new book, Found: A Memoir, came out in March 2011. It is a sequel to Blackbird and is about the search and reunion with her birth mother.

Click here to download the registration form for Scene Writing in Seven Steps. Tuition is $50.

Saturday evening, Lauck will read from her latest book, Found: A Memoir, at 7pm at the Manzanita Writers’ Series at the Hoffman Center.

The workshop and series are programs of the Hoffman Center and will be held at the Hoffman Center (across from Manzanita Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) (Further information and the 2011 schedule are available at hoffmanblog.org <http://hoffmanblog.org> online or contact Vera Wildauer at 971-344-5691 or email vwildauer@gmail.com).

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Manzanita Writers’ Series Presents Jennifer Lauck on June 18

Jennifer Lauck to read from her new memoir on June 18th

Jennifer Lauck will read from her new book Found: A Memoir at the Manzanita Writers’ Series event at 7pm on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at the Hoffman Center.

Found is the long awaited sequel to the 2000 international bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost & Found which was featured on Oprah and an international bestseller. Blackbird was translated into 22 languages and hit the bestseller lists in London, Ireland and Spain as well as in the United States.

Blackbird was written in the voice of a little girl who attempts to make sense of a world where parents die and children fall through the cracks and are left homeless. Found is written in the voice of a confident woman determined and thus destined to find inner peace, lasting happiness and sense of the familiar.

Jennifer Lauck, with humor, clarity and urgency takes her readers on a thrilling quest that leads her first into motherhood and then into the complex spiritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, where Lauck discovers great masters, great teachings and the great truth of who she is. Lauck finally ends her journey when she finds her natural mother—the one who gave her life and gave her away with the hope that she would have a better life.

Lauck has published two other memoirs, a novel and a book on writing memoir. She traveled throughout Northern Europe to speak about her writing. Lauck was given the Book Sense 76 award and was featured in Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Talk Magazine, People, Glamour and Writer’s Digest. She was a select USA Today pick and nominated for two Oregon Book Awards.

Before becoming a memoir writer, speaker and teacher, Lauck worked for many years in television news for ABC affiliates from Montana to Oregon. Her investigative journalism reports appeared on CNN and the ABC Nightly News

During the day on Saturday, June 18, Lauck will teach a workshop on Scene Writing for all genres from 10-3 at the Hoffman Center.  Click here to download the registration form.

Kids Art Show on May 26

Students from Nehalem Elementary School will demonstrate their artistic skills with an end-of-the-school-year show Thursday, May 26 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the school.

On display will be works created during the kids’ weekly art explorations with the Outside the Box Arts program.

Formerly known as “Art Moms,” Outside the Box Arts was sponsored this school year by the Hoffman Center of Manzanita, using grant funds provided by the Laird Norton Family Foundation, the Juan Young Trust and the Mudd-Nick Foundation.

The grants enabled the program to provide two program leaders – Angelle Soans and Beth Basille – and bring in outside artists to provide specialized instruction.

All Student Open Mic on Saturday, May 21st

Kaeli Eudy, left, Open Mic organizer with Beth Noregaard, fellow writer.

Kaeli Eudy loves to write. A Junior at Neah-Kah-Nie High School, she’s a member of the Creative Writing Club, takes every writing class available, and writes articles for the school newspaper. Asked about her favorite genre, she replies, “Poetry. And stories. Stories with a bit of mystery or a twist.”

That interest spurred her to take on organizing an All-Student Open Mic for the Manzanita Writers’ Series for her Senior Project.

The All-Student Open Mic event will be held on Saturday, May 21st at 7 p.m. at the Hoffman Center. There is a $5 admission fee, and half the proceeds will go to the Creative Writing Club.

If you’re a student, show up a little early to sign up to read. First signed up, first to read and pieces are limited to five minutes. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. If you’re a member of community, come on out and listen to original work by local students, and help make Kaeli’s Senior Project a success.

Clay Studio Re-Opens after Remodel

Kathleen Ryan helps move into the newly remodeled clay room.

The Clay Studio at the Hoffman Center is back in action.  Come on down on Tuesdays, 10 to 4, and Thursdays, 5 to 8 in the evening, to check out all the exciting changes.  Now there’s more room for more participants, natural light from a new window, plus a dedicated sink for clean-up.  We look forward to seeing you there! 

For more pictures go to our page on Facebook:  Hoffman Center Manzanita.