We have an incredible lineup for this years FREE community workshops with Portland’s awesome women teaching you how to do everything from canning your own food and fixing your bike to mending clothes and tango dancing! Workshops will be happening at Mcmenamin’s Kennedy School on Sunday November 6th! Stay tuned for the final list of classes and times.
2011 Community Workshops
SESSION 1:
11am – 12:15
Martha Jordan Room:
Yoga
Instructor: Cindy Lewis
Mina Parsons Room:
Mercy Corps NW
Instructor: Rachel Stein
DIY Library:
100th Monkey/ Art School PDX Workshops: Print That!
Instructors: Joy Leising, Dianna Fontes
SESSION TWO:
12:30pm-1:45pm
Martha Jordan Room:
Writing from Life: Lyrical Essays (Writing Composition)
Instructor: Alissa Nielson
Mina Parsons Room:
Women in Comedy (Composition)
Instructor: Katie Brien
DIY Library:
100th Monkey/ Art School PDX Workshops: Journal Making
Instructors: Joy Leising, Dianna Fontes
SESSION THREE:
2pm-3:15pm
Martha Jordan Room:
Thoughts That Breathe and Words That Burn – Free Verse Poetry Composition
Instructor: Tai Carmen-Wagner
Mina Parsons Room:
Bicycle Maintenance
Instructor: Ashley and Tree from City Bikes
DIY Library:
100th Monkey/ Art School PDX Workshops: It’s Natural!
Instructors:Joy Leising, Dianna Fontes
SESSION FOUR:
3:30pm-4:45pm
Martha Jordan Room:
Women in Rock
Instructor: Laurel Dickman
Mina Parsons Room:
Sugar Crafts
Instructor: Christine McKernan
DIY Library:
100th Monkey/ Art School PDX Workshops: Journal Making
Instructors: Joy Leising, Dianna Fontes
About The Workshops
Yoga Basics
To start the day, we are stretching, breathing, and learning some basic yoga postures that channel energy and open up your senses. Cindy Lewis is a RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher). When asked about yoga, she said, “yoga is my passion and sharing it with the community is a joy. I began my yoga journey in the 80′s. My classes are full of humor, inspiration and play.” You can find Cindy Lewis on facebook at Yoga with Cindy web site: http://www.myyogaspring.com/
Blog: http://myyogaspring.blogspot.com/
Presenters: Cindy Lewis
Beyond the Creative Space: Business Resources for Artists
Join staff from Mercy Corps Northwest to discuss resources to help you turn your art into a business, or expand and improve the business you already have. We will explore funding options and educational opportunities for both new and existing business owners.
Presenters: Sarah Castagnola, IDA Program Manager, and Rachel Stein, Loan Officer
100th Monkey/Art(s)cool PDX Workshops:
Print That!: Using recycled, common objects to make printing blocks and imprints on paper and fabric. Materials provided.
Journal Making:Learn several different ways to create journals, books and picture albums using recycled materials. We encourage the use of the printing work made in the previous workshop. Materials provided.
It’s Natural!:Using natural items such as plants, beans, sand and stone to create interesting works of art on paper; printing, rubbings, etchings and application techniques are used. Materials provided.
presenter: Joy Leising, Dianna Fontes
Writing from Life: Lyrical Essays
“Memory has its own story to tell,” writer Tim O’Brien once said.
The lyrical essay is a short form that explores a significant personal moment which reaches out to a larger idea or area of thought about the human condition. Lyrical essay is a form that allows maximum mobility from the small, the daily, the domestic to the universal significance, or as essayist Philip Gerard says, “The subject has to carry itself and also be an elegant vehicle for larger meanings.”
Through writing prompts and essay examples, this workshop will explore the larger truths of our own personal narratives through the short form of the lyrical essay.
Presented by:
Alissa Nielsen is a writer, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared in Voice Catcher, Prick of the Spindle and The Raven Chronicles. She studied literature and writing at Charles University in Prague, The Evergreen State College, and earned her MFA from Pacific University. She has worked as an English teacher, writing tutor, and editor-in-chief of Silk Road literary journal. Currently, she lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is working on a collection of short stories.
presenter: Katie Brien
image by Bettie Newell
Thoughts That Breathe and Words That Burn – Free Verse Poetry Composition
Thomas Gray defined poetry as “thoughts that breathe and words that burn.” Carl Sanburg said: “Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”
Perhaps the most exciting thing about modern poetry is that its very nature defies definition. It is a form inseparable from freedom and invention.
Robert Frost said, “If it is a wild tune, it is a poem.” But how to make our poems sing?
We’ll discuss this and more in this one-hour class aimed at lighting your poetic fire. Attendees are encouraged to bring drafts of their own work to share and workshop with the group (multiple copies ideal!) If you have a favorite poem by another person, bring that, too! If we have time, we’ll share their inspiration with the class.
Presented by:
Tai Carmen Wagner holds a degree in literature with a creative writing emphasis from UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. She has a collection of poems, “Pollen,” out on Finishing Line Press, called “meditative and exciting […] a brave act,” by award-winning poet Matthew Dickman, and “shatteringly lovely” by first poet laureate of Santa Barbara, Barry Spacks. She writes a top ranking philosophy blog Parallax: Exploring the Architetcture of Human Perception (www.parallaxweekly.com) and the curates The Pine Grove Literary Review (www.pinegrovelitreview.wordpress.com)
presenters: Tai Carmen-Wagner
Bicycle Maintenance Basics
Learn the basics about your bike. This is an essential course, especially for preparing for Winter riding and understanding precautions as a rider. Know your bike!
presenters: Ashley and Tree from City Bikes
image by Ashley Mitchell
Women Who Rock
Women Who Rock is a retrospective of women who have shaped rock music as we have known it, from its inception to what it is today. We hope to open the eyes (and ears) of those young and old, creating a greater sense of understanding and pride, as well as the need to just plain rock, in generations young and old.
presenter: Laurel Dickman
image by Beth Olson Design
Sugar Crafts
Sure, candy is fun all on its own, but it can also be creative and artistic! Make some amazing and fun creations and learn how to assemble using edible adhesives. Then eat it all up!
presenter: Christine McKernan