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Summer in Words Writing Conference June 15-17

We wanted to pass a long a great opportunity for writers of all levels to learn from some of the best in their field…

Best-selling author Chelsea Cain will headline the roster for the 5th annual Summer In Words Writers Conference at the Hallmark Inn & Resort in Cannon Beach, Oregon. A full weekend of workshops, lectures, panels and individual consults will inspire writers at all levels. The theme for this year’s conference is Refinement, Resonance & Renewal. SIW provides aspiring and established writers the opportunity to hone their writing skills, hear inspiring advice, and network with fellow writers. Cost for all three days is $265.00; single day pricing is also available.

This year’s conference kicks off Friday morning, June 15th with workshops taught by Jessica Morrell, Bruce Holland Rogers and Naseem Rakha. Friday’s workshops will be followed by a reception and book signing with books from Cloud & Leaf Bookstore and a talk by Sage Cohen. Saturday features workshops by Jessica Glenn, Sage Cohen, and Cathy Lamb and a luncheon and keynote by Chelsea Cain. Saturday night is Out Loud, a chance for participants to read from a work in process. Sunday morning includes a workshop by Jessica Morrell, Cathy Lamb describing her road to best sellerdom, and a Q & A on Risk It to Get Published.

Conference founder Jessica Morrell said, “We are excited to celebrate the fifth year of Summer in Words with such a stellar line up of speakers and workshops. I’m especially looking forward to Chelsea’s talk on how to murder for money. Of course, she’s talking about writing her thriller series. This year’s workshops and talks will give writers a big advantage in today’s ever-changing publishing landscape.”

Both beginning and established writers are invited to attend the conference. SIW will also feature a raffle with proceeds going to Write Around Portland, an organization that helps people transform their lives through writing and the Hoffman Center a facility that provides arts in Manzanita.

Cannon Beach, Oregon is vibrant community on Oregon’s coast known for its love of the arts and books. The Hallmark Inn & Resort is located in midtown and overlooks Haystack Rock. Discounted room rates are available for conference participants. Cloud & Leaf Bookstore will be selling books at the event.

Visit any of the instructors’ websites or blogs:

Chelsea Cain http://chelseacain.com/

Sage Cohen http://pathofpossibility.com

Jessica Glenn http://mindbuckmedia.com/contact.shtml

Cathy Lamb http://www.cathylamb.net/

Jessica Morrell: http://jessicamorrell.com/

Naseem Rakha http://www.naseemrakha.com

Bruce Holland Rogers http://www.shortshortshort.com

The registration fee of $265 covers tuition for the three-day conference, Friday night’s reception, Saturday lunch and keynote, and light breakfasts each morning. Friday night’s Writer’s Reception and the Saturday lunch and keynote are $25.

Contact Jessica Morrell at 503 287-2150 to arrange an interview with any of the presenters.

About Summer in Words: Founded in 2008 by Jessica Morrell Summer in Words was created to provide writers with an intimate conference experience in an uplifting setting so that attendees are energized, enlightened, and inspired. Jessica Morrell is the author of Thanks, But This isn’t for Us, Bullies, Bastards & Bitches, How to Write the Bad Guys in Fiction, The Writer’s I Ching, Wisdom for the Writing Life, Voices From the Street, Between the Lines, Master the Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing, and Writing Out the Storm.

For the complete schedule or any information or to register, contact conference coordinator Jessica Morrell at 503 287-2150 or jessicapage@spiritone.com or conference assistant Mary Drew at mary.drw@gmail.com

Registrations can be mailed to Summer in Words, P.O. Box 820141, Portland, OR 97282-1141. Payment can also be sent through PayPal.

Website is http://summerinwords.wordpress.com

New Intro to Clay Studio Class Added for April 11th

Our first Introduction to Clay Studio Class on March 28th filled up fast, so we’re adding another one on April 11th from 1pm to 3 pm.

This introductory class, led by Dee Koscheski and Kathleen Ryan, will familiarize you with the Hoffman Center clay studio and what is possible to create within it. A studio tour will be given, including an overview of the equipment, tools and guidelines. Dee and Kathleen will be giving demonstration of hand-building and wheel throwing.

Students will also have a chance to experiment with clay and learn how it behaves with the guidance of the two instructors.

Cost: $10, which includes 2 pounds of clay.

To register for the class, limited to 6 people, contact Dee at hoffmanclaystudio@gmail.com or leave message at 503-368-3846.

 

Poetry Writing Workshop and Poetry Reading with Carlos Reyes on Saturday, March 31

After the workshop, Reyes will read from his latest collection of poetry--Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart.

Carlos Reyes will conduct a poetry-writing workshop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita on Saturday, March 31, 2012. He will do a reading from his new book, Pomegranate, Sister of the Heart, following the workshop at 2:30. This is a special event of the Manzanita Writers’ Series. The free reading is open to the public and books will be available to purchase at the event.

Writers who participated in Reyes’ March 2011 one-hour workshop can tell you that his workshops are immediately engaging, fun and creative. This workshop will involve different writing prompts from the 2011 workshop. You’ll walk away with useful handouts, a “homework” assignment, along with many new poetry drafts. Download a registration form here. There is a $25 fee for the workshop. Bring a brown bag for the half-hour lunch break.

Poet and translator Carlos Reyes lives and writes in Portland, Oregon when he is not traveling. He travels a lot, and whether he journeys to Panama, Spain, Alaska or Ireland, those experiences inspire and inform his poetry. In 2007 he was honored with a Heinrich Boll Fellowship, which gave him two weeks to write on Achill Island, Ireland. He has had fellowships to Yaddo and the Fundación Valparaíso (Mojåcar, Spain). He was poet-in-residence in 2009 at the Lost Horse Ranger Station in the Joshua Tree National Park, and recently writer-in-residence at the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska. Pomegranate is his fifth collection of poetry to be published.

Click here to find out more on the 2012 schedule or contact Vera Wildauer at vwildauer@gmail.com.

Clay Mask Making Workshop with Glenna Gray

Join Glenna Gray on Wednesday, March 21st from 1:00-3:00 pm in a fun introduction to the ancient art of ceramic mask making. After the introduction and demonstration, each participant will make their own mask which will be fired when dry. Mask makers then have the option of glazing their piece and having it fired in the kiln again, or taking it home to paint with acrylics. Absolutely no art experience of any kind is needed to take this workshop! Glenna has taught art in public schools at the junior high level, and facilitates art activities locally whenever possible. Masks are one of her favorites!

Class tuition is $20, which includes all materials, glazes and firing. Only 6 spaces are available. Email Glenna to register: glenna@nehalemtel.net or call the Hoffman Center at 503 368 3846 and leave a message.  Class tuition must be paid in advance.  Make checks out to Glenna Gray and mail to Hoffman Center, PO Box 678, Manzanita 97130.

Oregon Book Award Finalist Marjorie Sandor appears March 10th

Oregon Book Award Finalist Marjorie Sandor to read, and lead free memoir workshop

Literary Arts is pleased to announce an event in Manzanita as part of the Oregon Book Awards Author Tour. Marjorie Sandor will appear as part of the Manzanita Writers Series at Hoffman Center on Saturday, March 10th, at 7 p.m.

In addition, Sandor will offer a free workshop on Saturday, March 10th from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita (594 Laneda Ave). The workshop will focus on memoir-writing and explore the power–both haunting and restorative–of our most ordinary and familiar domestic spaces. Sandor will briefly discuss her own experience of creating a book out of the bits and pieces of an early-morning gardening journal kept during a mid-life moment of intense change. From there, participants will do some of their own writing, working from simple prompts. The workshop is free but space is limited and participants are asked to register by emailing Susan Denning at susan@literary-arts.org.

Marjorie Sandor’s most recent book is The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction, a 2012 finalist for the 2012 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her previous books include the linked story collection, Portrait of my Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime: Stories (Sarabande Books), which won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction; and a previous book of essays, The Night Gardener: A Search for Home (The Lyons Press), won the 2000 Oregon Award for Creative Nonfiction.

Following Sandor’s reading and Q&A, we’ll have our popular Open Mic where up to nine local writers will read 5 minutes of their original work.

Admission for the evening is $7.

 

Introduction to the Adult Clay Studio at the Hoffman Center

With Dee Koscheski and Kathleen Ryan

Wednesday, March 28th 1:00 – 3:00 pm

Cost: $10, which includes 2 pounds of clay

This introductory class will familiarize you with the Hoffman Center clay studio and what is possible to create within it. A studio tour will be given, includingan overview of the equipment, tools and guidelines. Dee and Kathleen will be giving demonstration of hand-building and wheel throwing.

Students will have a chance to experiment with clay and learn how it behaves with the guidance of the two instructors.

To register for the class, limited to 6 people, contact Dee at hoffmanclaystudio@gmail.com or leave message at 503-368-3846

2 New Letterpress Classes in February

The shop is looking great (some “new” work tables! more organized type & spacing!) and Sarah is excited to offer two workshops in February: one beginning and one intermediate. Call or email her a.s.a.p. to reserve your space.  Also please let her know if you would like to participate in one (or both) but the date doesn’t work for you; she may be able to reschedule if enough concur. And of course feel free to contact her with any questions you have about letterpress.  She can be reached at accidentalpress at gmail.com or (503) 739-1939.

 

LETTERPRESS FUNDAMENTALS

Sunday, February 5th 2012
11am – 5pm with break for lunch
$65 (includes all materials)

In this workshop we will collaboratively print a poster on the Vandercook no. 2 galley proof press, learning typesetting, hand inking technique, & shop procedure in the process, plus a little typography & color theory. Participants will take home their own print or two and thereafter be qualified to use the proof press– perfect for printing linoleum and wood image blocks as well as moveable type– during supervised open studio hours.

INTERMEDIATE LETTERPRESS

Saturday, February 11th 2012
10 am – 5pm with break for lunch
$80 (incudes all materials)

This class is for those who have taken Letterpress Fundamentals (or ANY workshop from me in the past) and would like to learn to operate the Chandler and Price platen job press (or refresh their muscle memory). By designing and printing a postcard together, participants will advance their typesetting skills, learn to lock up the form, pack & ink the press, & troubleshoot until achieving ideal registration and impression. Participants will go home with an edition of at least 20 beautiful postcards and will thereafter be qualified to use the job press for their own projects during supervised open studio hours.

~ immerse yourself in letterpress and save $10 by taking both workshops in succession: $135 tuition for both. ~

Hoffman Center Offers Genealogy Course

Genealogy expert, Karen Martin, to teach class in January

Thanks for the interest, registration is closed, another class will be offered in the future.

The Hoffman Center will host a four-week “Introduction to Family History” course in January. Class sessions will be held on Tuesdays, Jan. 10, 17, 24 and 31, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. in the Hoffman House Studios next to the Manzanita Library. The tuition will be $40 for all four classes.

Instructor Karen Merrill Martin has been doing genealogy research for over 20 year. She holds a Certificate in Genealogical Studies from the National Institute of Genealogical Studies affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Martin published her first family history book in 2010 and was recently named first runner-up in a family history writing contest sponsored by Family Tree Magazine and Abbott Press.

“Family history can be many things,” said Martin. “From ‘I just want to put a scrapbook together of these old photos,’ to a scholarly text with footnotes and charts, to a novelized version of an ancestor’s life story.”

This class will offer students ideas on where to start, and help them decide where to go from there. Topics will include organizing files, protecting documents, researching vital records, making courthouse trips, and finding online resources.

“We will also discuss how to keep track of your family and your research either by hand or computer,” said Martin. “Whether you are a beginner or someone with more experience, there will be lots to learn in this class.”

For more information, contact Martin directly at kmmartin@nehalemtel.net.  Download the Genealogy_Class_Registration_Form here.

 

 

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The Hoffman Center is your community arts center, and we’re eager to grow our programming to meet your needs.  Please take a few minutes to fill out our short survey regarding Hoffman Center programming for Adult Visual Arts Classes. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions to help improve the Hoffman Center and its offerings!

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Workshop Discount Extended to 10/26

Gigi Rosenberg to teach Funding Your Creative Project. Photo by Heather Hawksford

Get your application postmarked by October 26th for a Special Rate!  Click here for a registration form.

Fund Your Creative Project: Grant Writing for the Visual, Literary & Performing Artist

In this hands-on workshop, held on Sunday, November 6th as part of the Dark & Stormy Beach Weekend, artists and writers learn to take a good idea and transform it into a compelling grant proposal. Discover how to research funding, decode application questions and create a budget that makes your application irresistible. Bring any writing you have about yourself or your work, including artist statement, project descriptions, or reviews, if any. Participants will have time to clarify their ideas and receive moderated feedback from the group and direct coaching from the instructor. Open to both experienced and novice grant writers.

Previous workshop participants have gotten grants to do things like:

• build a website

• fly to Europe to attend a conference

• attend an artist’s retreat

• put on a play

• hire a mentor

• take a workshop

• stage a performance installation.

 

The workshop will be held Sunday, November 6th, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., bring a brown bag for lunch. Fee is $65 for the first twelve attendees who’s registration is postmarked by October 26th; $95 thereafter.  The workshop will be at the Hoffman Center, 594 Laneda Avenue in Manzanita.  Click here for a registration form.

Gigi Rosenberg is a writer, speaker, workshop leader and grant-writing guru. Her book, The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing, grew out of her acclaimed professional development workshops launched in Portland, Oregon, and taught in Chicago, New York and throughout the Pacific Northwest at colleges, conferences and arts organizations. Visit www.gigirosenberg.com.