The Sydney Writers’ Centre- Write your travel memoir; We’re at the Sydney Writers’ Festival

The Sydney Writers’ Centre- Write your travel memoir; We’re at the Sydney Writers’ Festival

“Sell your eBook on Amazon” This is a step-by-step information-packed guide on exactly what you need to do. Some students have left the seminar and have had their eBook available on Amazon the very same night!

You’ll discover:

•the Kindle itself (its capabilities, limitations and user-experience)
•listing a book in Amazon’s Kindle bookstore (terminology, requirements, options, terms and conditions)
•formatting your book for the Kindle (a major stumbling block for Kindle authors; discussing their pros and cons of options that can otherwise be very confusing)
•building your writer’s platform (putting the book in the Kindle store is just the first step in your marketing)
Seminar: Sell Your eBook on Amazon with Steven Lewis
When: Monday 21 May 2012 (two-hour evening seminar)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $85

Filling fast: ONLINE Course: Magazine and Newspaper Writing, starts Monday 21 May 2012.

New course: Write a Chick-Lit Novel with Lisa Heidke, weekend course starts Saturday 16 June 2012.

Write your travel memoir
Readers love travel stories, and why wouldn’t they – reading about an author’s journey to all corners of the globe is almost as good as going there yourself! Writers such as William Dalrymple, Paul Theroux and Bill Bryson have made careers out of writing their travel memoirs, and books like Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun just prove that travel memoir is an incredibly popular genre.

If you’ve been on your own journey and want to turn your experiences into a memoir, we can show you how. Our next Travel Memoir course with Claire Scobie starts soon and this is your chance to turn those wonderful travel memories into a memoir readers will love.

What past participants say:
“Claire was wonderfully encouraging and always listening. I enjoyed learning about different sorts of writing, from describing a photo to going to a new location in Sydney.”
- Donna Hayward-Brown

“Claire Scobie is a warm and enthusiastic teacher. I found her easy to understand and encouraging. She made me want to write!”
- Carla Simmons

Travel Memoir with Claire Scobie
When: Wednesdays starting Wednesday 23 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Congratulations Pamela Freeman!
Big news in the world of fantasy, horror and science fiction writing this week – the winners of the 2011 Aurealis Awards were announced on Sunday at an event in Sydney. Among the winners is our very own Pamela Freeman, who was awarded the best fantasy novel for EMBER AND ASH. Congratulations Pamela!

Pamela is the creator of our Creative Writing Stage 1 and Stage 2 courses and this year is also undertaking a 6-month novel writing course with 14 lucky participants. EMBER AND ASH is her fourth novel for adults (she has published 23 books, mainly for children and young adults) and this is her second Aurealis Award.

More Student Success
We’ve also had good news from one of our former students. Tara O’Sullivan has completed both our Creative Writing and Magazine and Newspaper Writing course. She writes a column for Cosmopolitan online and has just had her first feature published in the June issue of the magazine.

Congratulations Tara!

Sydney Writers’ Festival
The 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival kicked off on Tuesday night with an opening address by Hisham Matar. Today the full program of panel sessions, author talks and interviews is in full swing and will continue until Sunday night. Tickets are still available for many events and, of course, there’s lots of free sessions you can attend too. You can view the timetable here.

Can’t make it to Sydney for the festival? Don’t worry – we’ll be bringing you lots of author interviews and will keep you posted on the best sessions on our Writing Bar. We’re updating it every day and already have interviews there with Frank Moorhouse, Thomas Keneally, and Malla Nunn. Watch out for interviews with Geoff Dyer, Lemon Andersen and Edward de Waal, all coming soon.

See your film on the big screen
Whether you’re keen to write a feature film or want to get your short ready for the next big shorts festival, you’ll want to be sure your script is as good as it can be. And the best way to achieve that is with our Screenwriting Stage 1 course.

Screenwriter Tim Gooding will take you through 5 weeks of learning the fundamentals of screenwriting. You’ll learn how to structure your story, how to write compelling characters audiences want to watch and how to recognise what’s working in your script and what isn’t. By the end of the course you can expect to have a first draft – either of a short film or a first scene – and you’ll be on your way to seeing your story on the big screen.

What past participants say:
“Tim has a great style and a lot of real world experience. He was excellent.”
- Sean Scott

“If you want to write a screenplay but don’t know where to start, then you must try the Screenwriting Stage 1 course. It will show you all the basics and have you starting to write almost straight away.”
- Paul Sorauer

Screenwriting Stage 1 with Tim Gooding
When: Mondays starting Monday 28 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Book giveaway – RIP TIDE by Stella Rimington
Leading the charge in the new genre of “insider” spy fiction is former MI5 director Stella Rimington. Her books, featuring a young female intelligence operative, Liz Carlyle, have proved incredibly popular and now her sixth, Rip Tide, has been released.

Stella is here to be part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival and her publishers at Bloomsbury have sent us four copies of Rip Tide to give away.

When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London’s Thames House.

Now Liz and her team must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece and Somalia, relying on their wits – and the judicious use of force – to get to the truth. And they don’t have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind of explosive trouble that MI5 could do without…

If you’d like to win a copy of RIP TIDE tell us who your favourite spy novel hero or heroine is and why. Email your answers to courses [at] spindriftmedia [dot] com [dot] au by 5pm Friday 25 May 2012, and don’t forget to include your postal address.

Learn the golden rules of good business writing
Is your writing holding you back at work? Do you struggle when it comes to writing reports, proposals or correspondence? Learning the fundamentals of good business writing could be all you need to build your confidence and save time at work.

Professional Business Writing is a one-day seminar that will show you how to plan, write and present your business writing tasks. During this seminar you’ll cover the golden rules of good business writing, common writing mistakes (and how you can avoid them), how to write persuasively and how to structure your reports and proposals.

What past participants say:
“The content was very relevant, and interesting. Sue was knowledgeable and easy to listen to, and had good, practical advice.”
- Lauren Barrett

“I learnt more in eight hours than I did in four years of high school.”
- Geoffrey Marsh

Professional Business Writing with Sue White
When: Wednesday 23 May 2012 (one-day seminar)
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Cost: $450

WEBPICK: Feeding the Chooks
Last week we featured our overall winner for the Best Australian Blogs 2012 Competition, and this week we take a look at our commentary winner, Feeding the Chooks.

Feeding the Chooks is the blog of Martin McKenzie-Murray. It’s here that he posts his reflections on life, politics, sport, music, film – anything that comes to mind, really. As a former Labor “hack” his insights on Australian and international politics are well worth reading.

Commentary category judge Greg Jericho said, “the writing on this blog is just too good to ignore”, and we agree.

Other upcoming courses
Online Course: Magazine and Newspaper Writing Stage 1 with Sue White/Allison Tait – FULL
When: Week beginning Monday 21 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: Whenever suits you
Cost: $395

Online Course: Creative Writing Stage 1 with Pamela Freeman/Cathie Tasker – NEW DATE
When: Week beginning Monday 21 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: Whenever suits you
Cost: $395

Seminar: Sell Your eBook on Amazon with Steven Lewis
When: Monday 21 May 2012 (two-hour evening seminar)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $85

Program: Write Your Novel with Pamela Freeman – FULL
When: Every Monday starting Monday 21 May 2012 for six months
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $1980

Seminar: From Blog to Book with Kerri Sackville
When: Tuesday 22 May 2012 (two-hour evening seminar)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $85

Seminar: Professional Business Writing with Sue White
When: Wednesday 23 May 2012 (one-day seminar)
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Cost: $450

Course: Travel Memoir with Claire Scobie
When: Every Wednesday starting Wednesday 23 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Seminar: PR and Media Releases that Get Results with Catriona Pollard
When: Thursday 24 May 2012 (one-day seminar)
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Cost: $495

Online Course: Writing Books for Children and Young Adults with Judith Ridge/Nicola Robinson
When: Week beginning Monday 28 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: Whenever suits you
Cost: $395

Online Course: Magazine and Newspaper Writing Stage 1 with Sue White/Allison Tait – NEW DATE
When: Week beginning Monday 28 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: Whenever suits you
Cost: $395

Course: Screenwriting Stage 1 with Tim Gooding
When: Every Monday starting Monday 28 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Course: Introduction to Novel Writing with Pamela Freeman
When: Every Tuesday starting Tuesday 29 May 2012 for six weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $495

Course: Writing Books for Children and Young Adults with Judith Ridge
When: Every Tuesday starting Tuesday 29 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Course: Creative Writing Stage 1 with James Roy
When: Every Thursday starting Thursday 31 May 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Online Course: Creative Writing Stage 2 with Pamela Freeman/Cathie Tasker
When: Week beginning Monday 4 June 2012 for five weeks
Time: Whenever suits you
Cost: $395

Seminar: Self-Publishing – How to do it with Geoff Bartlett
When: Thursday 7 June 2012 (two-hour evening seminar)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $85

Online Course: Travel Writing with Sue White
When: Week beginning Monday 11 June 2012 for five weeks
Time: Whenever suits you
Cost: $395

Course: Writing Picture Books with Cathie Tasker
When: Every Wednesday starting Wednesday 13 June 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30pm
Cost: $395

Seminar: Business Writing Essentials with Tony Spencer-Smith
When: Thursday 14 June 2012 (one-day seminar)
Time: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Cost: $395

Course: Magazine and Newspaper Writing Stage 1 with Sue White – NEW DATE
When: Every Thursday starting Thursday 14 June 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Course: Food Writing with Carli Ratcliff – NEW COURSE
When: Saturday 16 June and Sunday 17 June 2012 (2 consecutive days)
Time: 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Cost: $395

Course: Write a chick-lit novel with Lisa Heidke – NEW COURSE
When: Saturday 16 June and Sunday 17 June 2012 (2 consecutive days)
Time: 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Cost: $395

Seminar: Writing for the web with Grant Doyle – NEW DATE
When: Monday 18 June 2012 (one-day seminar)
Time: 9.00 am – 4.00 pm
Cost: $450

Seminar: Grammar and Punctuation Essentials with Deb Doyle – NEW DATE
When: Thursday 21 June 2012 (one-day seminar)
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Cost: $450

Course: Writing about Interiors, Style and Design with Nigel Bartlett
When: Wednesday 27 June and 4 July 2012 (2 evening classes)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $175

Seminar: Editing Essentials with Deb Doyle – NEW DATE
When: Thursday 28 June 2012 (one-day seminar)
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Cost: $450

Course: Screenwriting Stage 2 with Tim Gooding
When: Every Monday starting Monday 9 July 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Seminar: Successful Freelancing with Valerie Khoo and Gayle Bryant
When: Tuesday 10 July 2012 (two-hour evening seminar)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $85

Course: Travel Writing with Sue White
When: Every Wednesday starting Wednesday 11 July 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Seminar: Build Your Profile Using Twitter with Steven Lewis
When: Tuesday 17 July 2012 (two-hour evening seminar)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $85

Course: Creative Writing Stage 2 with Pamela Freeman
When: Every Tuesday starting Tuesday 17 July 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Seminar: How to Get Your Book Published with Geoff Bartlett – NEW DATE
When: Thursday 19 July 2012 (two-hour evening seminar)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $85

Seminar: Introduction to Travel Writing with Geoff Bartlett – NEW DATE
When: Tuesday 24 July 2012 (two-hour evening seminar)
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $85

Seminar: Blogging for Business with Steven Lewis – NEW DATE
When: Friday 27 July 2012 (one-day seminar)
Time: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Cost: $395

Course: Life Writing with Patti Miller
When: Every Friday starting Friday 3 August 2012 for six weeks
Time: 10.00 am – 12 noon
Cost: $450

Course: Thriller Writing with L.A. Larkin
When: Every Thursday starting Thursday 9 August 2012 for five weeks
Time: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Cost: $395

Seminar: How to Write a Business Book with Valerie Khoo – NEW DATE
When: Friday 16 November 2012 (half-day seminar)
Time: 9.30 am – 1.00 pm
Cost: $295

WRITING TOURS
Writing in Bali with Patti Miller – FULL
When: Saturday 21 July to Saturday 28 July 2012

Writing in Paris with Patti Miller – FULL
Arrival: Thursday 18 October 2012
Departure: Saturday 3 November 2012

Sydney Writers’ Centre
Suite 3, 55 Lavender Street Milsons Point NSW 2061
www.sydneywriterscentre.com.au

Jeff Jensen- DRIVE THE BROADWAY OF AMERICA!

DRIVE THE BROADWAY OF AMERICA!

by Jeff Jensen for BygoneByways.com

. Author

. Photographer

. Preservationist

“As one who has spent two decades exploring, charting, and documenting Route 66, I can say without hesitation that Jeff Jensen has elevated himself into the upper echelon of road scholars with BROADWAY OF AMERICA. His exceptional accounting of the old US 80 and Bankhead highway corridor leaves no stone unturned, revealing a marvelous grab bag of ruins, old roadbed, and other roadside attractions. The maps are dead-on and the images mouth-watering. I’ve made the trip twice and can’t wait to do it again!”- Jim Ross Author, OKLAHOMA ROUTE 66
Cp-author and Publisher, ROADSIDE USA & ROUTE 66 SIGHTINGS

Available through bygonebyways.com or Amazon.com

Randy Ford Author- Revised INFLATION, DEFLATION, WAR! 55th Installment

So in a way you could say they got a reprieve. Fritz allowed Pauline to stay, and the boys with Eva came home. There was not a sign of discord in the flat. It was all so artificial, and accommodation was the game they played. Fritz was more affectionate than he had ever been, but he overdid it. At one point Pauline caught him with Eva, and when she went into his study and found them in an embrace, she turned around and walked out. But it didn’t make her angry. It just made her think, “It’s what I deserve.” She pulled herself together, and before she went back into the study, she cleared her throat and waited a minute. He considered his study his sanctuary. Pauline was puzzled that he kept the door open, but it turned out that he wanted Pauline to know about his relationship with Eva. It actually increased his pleasure, though it made Eva feel uncomfortable. She wanted to resign but didn’t. She tried to talk to Pauline about it. They couldn’t avoid each other, and every day they looked at each other with envy. Pauline actually felt relieved. Fritz would already be at work, for he didn’t have the luxury of sleeping in. Eva took care of the boys. She’d feed them and make sure that they were clean and dressed for school. It was what she got paid for. She felt ashamed of herself for getting involved with her employer, but also enjoyed the attention and affection he gave her. She should’ve known better. Pauline thought she should’ve put a stop to it, but that was before she realized that it was what she wanted. She thought that she was free, free without the pretense, the make-believe, and with only a few complications. It was uncanny. It was unconventional and unbelievable, and it had gone too far for her to fix it.

She never wanted to know the explicit details of her husband’s relationship with Eva, and it worried her when she tried to imagine the consequences, and there was no denying that it hurt her whenever she allowed herself to accept the blame. So she wanted to keep as much of her for herself as possible for she knew who she was. And others around her never fooled her. She felt that she could take lovers or leave them. But she was unwilling to ditch any of them.

She had the closest relationship with Frederick. They were so close in nature that they could read each other’s faces. She wrote him notes in her lovely handwriting. He kept all of them and would reread them from time to time. He kept a passport and still hoped that one day that he could convince her to runaway with him. Money wouldn’t be a problem. They both had money, and they both teased each other about it. But Pauline wasn’t ready to give up everything. Still they talked about it, and if things ever got really unbearable at home for her she’d readily accept his offer. For insurance she kept a stash of money hidden where she knew that she could find it.

One day she came close to doing something foolhardy. She confronted Eva. Eva stood her ground. It was before Pauline had seen anything and confirmed her suspicions. What the boys might’ve seen worried her more than anything else. She thought that they shouldn’t be drawn into it. As far as she was concerned it was all right for Eva and her husband to have an affair, but they needed to be discreet about it. She believed in setting strict boundaries and had been very careful herself not to embarrass her boys in any way. That was what she confronted Eva about. She wanted to clear the air and make sure Eva understood where she stood. It was easy for her to re-create in her mind what was going on in Eva’s head, and she felt better after they had their little talk. Both of them felt better, though Pauline hadn’t exactly rolled over when she made it clear that the nanny’s principal duty was the care of her kids. Nothing else seemed to matter to her…while she knew that she was incapable of meeting Fritz’s needs. During the war she’d been robbed of so much. Since the war she’d felt that she didn’t have a claim on anyone. And she felt lost and stuck. The more she thought about it, the more stuck she felt. Sometimes she couldn’t think of anything else. She felt tormented, and that was when she was most likely to seek a sexual fix.

She told Frederick one day, “I’ve been talking to Fritz. He says that he’d like to meet you. I think that’s sick. Of course he knows about us. I don’t keep anything from him.”

Frederick said, “Do you think I’d want to talk to him?”

Pauline said, “I told him it wasn’t a good idea. I told him that I didn’t want to spoil it and that I didn’t know how you’d react. I don’t want to spoil it. I don’t want to spoil it with any rules except for one: no matter what my boys have to be protected. And I’m serious.”

She said the next day, “I’ve talked to Fritz again, and he agrees.”

That day Frederick and Pauline agreed to go away together for a weekend. She called Fritz and told him exactly what she was doing and when she’d be back. But there were other things going on.

Randy Ford

Hesperian Health Guides- WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR

WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR

published by Hesperian Health Guides

Did you use “WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR?”? Make a lasting gift to your host community!

Here is a GREAT opportunity to support community health in your country of service! You might remember WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR from your Peace Corps service: maybe it saved your life, or the life of someone in your village.

Did you know that WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR is published by a nonprofit called Hesperian Health Guides?

Between now and June 30th, 2012, gifts from an RPCV, current volunteer, or in honor of a current or returned volunteer, will be matched by the Hesperian board dollar-for-dollar up to $22,000!

What do volunteer health workers in the Philippines have to say about Hesperian’s resources?

“I am working with an organization called Likhaan, which Hesperian has partnered with to distribute the WHERE WOMEN HAVE NO DOCTOR book to community health workers & health centers in the Philippines.

So far I have waded through baha (floods) to get to community clinics in isolated rural areas.

I have talked with community health workers and patients about their experiences with illegal (and usually unsafe) induced abortions and lack of contraceptive access, as well as their struggles with poverty, lack of stable jobs, and women having more children than they desired.

I have visited community members in slum areas who live in scrap tin and wood houses built on stilts over murky polluted waters attended community leaders’ trainings on reproductive justice and accountability of local government unit.

…I ask for your prayers, your positive energies, and your well wishes.”
~Heidi Tuason, volunteer, 2009

Get involved! Make a gift today to double your impact, share your story about using Hesperian resources, or spread the word about Hesperian to your friends and contacts. Visit us on the Hesperian RPCV community page.

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Uuniversity of Arizona Poetry Center- Poetry Off the Page begins Friday! May 18, 2012

Uuniversity of Arizona Poetry Center- Poetry Off the Page begins Friday! May 18, 2012

Poetry Off the Page, the Poetry Center’s third biennial symposium, will present some of today’s most intriguing and adventurous poets, those who forge new literary territory with the help of modern technologies; those daring to make new work that is best “read” off the page or performed in collaboration or in tandem.

The work of visiting writer and artist Cecilia Vicuña inspired two Tucson writers and scholars, Wendy Burk and Adela C. Licona, to create an ephemeral multimedia piece of stirring beauty. Responding to Vicuña’s Saborami (Beau Geste Press, 1973), the resulting video and photo essay act as an homage to Vicuña. Don’t miss your chance to be inspired by Vicuña’s Site-Specific Installation, which you can encounter at Poetry Off the Page.
Homenaje: An Homage to Cecilia Vicuña

University of Arizona Poetry Center | 1508 East Helen Street (At Vine Avenue) |Tucson , AZ 85721-0150
Phone: 520-626-3765 | Fax: 520-621-5566 | email: poetry@email.arizona.edu

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | UA COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES

The Playwrights Foundation- Des Voix Festival: Zoomin’ In On Playwright Samuel Gallet

The Playwrights Foundation- Des Voix Festival: Zoomin’ In On Playwright Samuel Gallet

Meet Samuel Gallet. He is a member of the “Cooperative d’ecriture”, a group founded by thirteen playwrights, under the impulsion of Fabrice Melquiot. His plays have been staged by top French directors, and Oswald by night, his rock poem, has become a concert animated by Baptiste Tanne and Melissa Acchiardi.

The Playwrights Foundation’s Des Voix…Found in Translation Festival is thrilled to present a staged reading of COMMUNIQUE #10 for the first time ever in English, translated and directed by Rob Melrose. Communique #10 is the recipient of the Lyon’s Theatre Days in 2010, and will be staged by Jean-Philippe Albizzati in France.

COMMUNIQUE #10 provides a glimpse into a heightened world where the characters seek to find their place amidst the riots and police raids in the outskirts of a metropolitan city. Samuel divulges in a recent interview on our Festival blog, “My pieces often evoke characters or destinies that don’t fit into the world as it is. They are socially isolated and marginal characters. The idea for the play came from the situation in France with its housing projects and social deprivation, from the various riots that have erupted in France since 1980s. And [from a desire] to make heard this vital energy of those seeking to find their place to participate in the world and to exist with greater dignity.”

“What makes Samuel’s play so challenging is that he not only writes in a wide variety of urban slangs, but he also writes in a heightened poetic language that is surprising and strange even in the original French. The characters speak in ways that would sound artfully unnatural to a modern French audience.” notes Rob Melrose.

This isn’t LES MISERABLES, ya’ll. But in today’s America, highly charged with bold political oppositions and Occupy Wallstreet, we can find universal truth and parallels in this French perspective.

Samuel confesses, “I hope that audience members will be able to hear the differences in the points of view that drive the play, [to see] that things are many-sided and that what is at stake in my theater, more than a denunciation of a global political system, is the attempt to have meeting and understanding between people from different backgrounds. That despite the tragic dimensions of play, horizons and hopes open. That the characters carry within themselves the possibility of not letting the forces of death destroy them.”

Complex, honest, and artfully offbeat, don’t miss out on the Samuel Gallet experience!

Be sure to join us for a reading of COMMUNIQUE #10:

Saturday, May 26, 2012 4:00pm at Z Space

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! Only $15 in advance!
Hard up for cash?

Join our street team and earn free tickets to the show! Email Frances Reyes-Bolinger at frances@playwrightsfoundation.org for more info!

Visit our website www.playwrightsfoundation.org

Playwrights Foundation uses Vendini for ticketing, marketing, and box office management.

Playwrights Foundation – 1616-16th Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA, 94103, (415) 626-2176
Vendini, Inc. – 660 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94104, 1 (800) 901-7173

Kore Press- Come to the Kore Garden Party and enjoy the Clouds, rabbits, owls and hair (oh my!)

Kore Press- Come to the Kore Garden Party and enjoy the Clouds, rabbits, owls and hair (oh my!)

“I have captured a cloud and am keeping it in a tank” by Chika Matsuda

Greetings!

Clouds, rabbits, owls and hair (oh my!) are being delivered in paintings, paper cuts, sculpture and photography to the Kore office. . . and we’re almost ready to let you in on the fun.

On May 21st, 2012 you will be able to preview the art online for the Kore Press Silent Auction & Garden Party (Sunday May 27, 2012 at the Franklin House downtown, Tucson.) We’ll sneak some pieces into this e-mail for you, but you can check out a lot more of it on-line when remote begins May 21. Can’t join us the day of? call if you’d like to set up a proxy bidder. 520-327-2127.

To learn more about the Auction & Garden Party and to buy tickets ($20 in advance, $25 at the door) follow this link here kore@korepress.org. We look forward to seeing you!

“The Carrot’s Lament” by Mykl Wells

“Tecolotes” by Marcy Miranda Janes

RETURNING ARTISTS

Sad you missed out on that great piece last year? You may be able to make it up to yourself with a new work by your favorite Kore Auction Artists this year. Returning artists include:

Ann Simmons-Myers

Cynthia Miller

Janet Miller

Debra Gregerman

Drew Burk

Gavin Troy

Jo Kubran

Jude Clarke

Ken Rosenthal

Lisa Robinson

Kimi Eisele

Patricia Katchur

Mykl Wells

Valerie Galloway

Wil Taylor

Desiree Rios

Mamta Popat

Marcy Janes

Ellen McMahon

Yoshi Nakano

and more

“Lady in the Cup” by Frances Murray Jones

“Lophochorista lesteraria” by Joseph Scheer

NEW ARTISTS

We have had a wonderful time meeting new artists and looking at new works for the auction. Artists whose work is new to the Annual Kore Benefit this year include:

Greg Bender, Joseph Scheer, Noah Saterstrom, Barbara Cully, Barbara Penn, Frances Murray Jones, Kiki Nelson, Chika Matsuda, Patricia Redding, Pamela Golden, Jaxun Doten, and others.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the art at korepress.org on May 21st, 2012 and buy tickets NOW with the advance discount here. We cannot wait to see you!

With love and art,

The Kore 2012 Garden Party team!

questions? call 520.327.2127 or kore@korepress.org

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