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Portraits of Stones w/ Karen Bermann & Claire Kruesel

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Portraits of Stones – a drawing & writing workshop
Saturday Nov 22: 1:30 to 6:30 PM
Drop in anytime Saturday for drawing, writing, and chatting with two creatives. Art materials provided for watercolor & drawing as well as stones. Objects will be used to inspire short bursts of writing. Feel free to bring your own objects for inspiration and/or drawing/writing materials. Or just stop by to view Karen’s artwork on display.

Karen Bermann is the author of The Art of Being a Stranger. She has a daily practice of watercolor drawing and naming the stones in her courtyard where she resides in Rome, Italy.

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Claire Kruesel, a resident of Ames, is a poet and longtime creative collaborator with Karen. She writes object biographies and teaches writing.

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Eco-Theatre Workshop | Sat Nov 15

Join The EcoTheatre Lab and Ames Writers Collective for a community Climate Change Theatre Action workshop! The EcoTheatre Lab team will share readings of short climate change plays and introduce the international Climate Change Theatre Action initiative. Then participants will engage with performance and generative writing exercises as a way to connect with local climate change issues and solutions.

Registrations not necessary, but greatly appreciate. Click HERE to let us know that you plan to join us.

While this workshop is open and FREE to anyone who would like to attend, we will gratefully accept pay-what-you-can donations!

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Lee Anne Wilson

Lee Anne Willson retired from Iowa State University in 2014 but is still involved in research to understand the fate of the solar system. She is a founding member of the artist’s cooperative Creative Artists’ Studios of Ames where she runs the Fiber Arts Node and Origami Center.  Her main writing project is a memoir about being an astronomer, nearly done. She is also writing up family stories and is working on some ideas for fiction to entertain her granddaughters.

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Join Our Write Togethers

Join us for our Write Togethers hybrid in person at Fifth Street Writers or on Zoom.

WHAT’S A WRITE TOGETHER?

Those who join us gather together in person at Fifth Street Writers and on Zoom. We open sharing what project we’re working on, and the we write for ~90 minutes. At the end, we share our successes, and sign off or pack up our stuff and wave goodbye. Easy peasy.

Our Write Togethers are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month from 3:30 to 5 PM, and the 1st Saturday of the month from 10 to Noon.

For more information and to register, click here.