Participate In A Workshop
Below is a list of our current workshops. To see a map to the workshop location, click on the name of the partner organization!
Drop In Classes
Beautiful Minds at NAMI
Holiday Changes To Workshop Schedule: Beautiful Minds Meeting Saturday Dec 10th and Saturday December 17th (Instead of 24th)!
Beautiful Minds is a brand new drop in class at the National Alliance for Mental Illness Washington County Center, 18680 Southwest Shaw Street
Aloha, OR 97007-1250, 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month, beginning September 10th. All classes are completely free of charge! Performance will be in March!
Voices Of Our Elders Drop In Classes
Friendly House’s current theme is “Cooking A Story”. Elders are writing stories and poems based on food, recipes and families! Hollywood Senior Center’s current theme is “Life’s Pop Quizzes: Creating a Textbook for the Younger Generation”. We’re weaving in our tried and true exercises with new stuff. You are always welcome to drop in and stretch your creativity!
Friendly House
The first and third Mondays of each month, from 11:15 am to 12:45pm, at Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Avenue. Drop-in cover charge is $5. Performance in January. (Please click on Friendly House to see their website.)
Hollywood Senior Center
The second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 10:15am-11:45am at Hollywood Senior Center 1820 NE 40th Avenue. Drop-in cover charge is $5. Performances in January. (Please click on Hollywood Senior Center above to see their website!)
Annual Workshops
Returning Heroes: I:you
Returning Heroes is a reunion writing workshop for any past Well Arts participant who has completed a workshop-to-performance journey! We’ll begin sessions the first week of March 2012, at Augustana Lutheran Church (2710 NE 14th Avenue). Day of week to be determined. There are two weekends of performance, one weekend at Concordia University and one weekend at Launch Pad Gallery!
Soldiers’ Heart
This is a two month, annual workshop at Portland Vet Center starting September of 2012. If you wish to participate, you must be referred by a Portland Vet Center counselor. The last session is an invited reading: each veteran will be asked to invite one person to come, to whom he or she wants most to tell his/her story to.
Nurses’ Story Project
This is a series of four-cluster workshops: four one-hour session workshops focused on a particular artform (creative non-fiction, poetry, theatre, etc). We are currently recruiting partners!
Tell us if you want to take a workshop!
Upcoming Community Presentations
Timpanogos Storytelling Festival
Veteran Well Arts actors David Loftus and Mikki Lipsey are joining Artistic/Executive Director Katy Liljeholm in presenting two workshops and a 40 minute best-of Well Arts performance at Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, at Brigham Young University in Utah, February 7-10, 2012
