Cascadia Retrospective; Portland/Bellingham Coming Up

This approaching weekend, I can be found creating artwork live, with writing on hand.

In Portland I will be at Metta:AtYyA, and in Bellingham at Home:BASS feauring Algorhythm.

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I recently had the happy occasion of encountering someone who attended a previous workshop I held at Cascadia Festival in June 2017, namely Mind Maps & Synaesthetic Processes. A jeweler, he let me know he’s utilized some of the methods we exercised. It makes me really glad to know that someone who does something very different than I do can apply things I’ve shared!

Here are photos (by Omar Lopez) from the Live Muse Writing session I held beforehand, where we sited ourselves in different places near various activities to interact with our writing.

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11th Sq. Artwork, Cascade Writers, Cascadia Festival, Worldcon 75

New dragon centerpiece art for 11th Sequence, by Marie-Anna Michaud

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I’m teaching two workshops with Cascade Writers in Tacoma next weekend:

1pm – 1:50pm Visual Mapping Techniques & Synaesthetic Processing – Cedar room (With Eva Elasigue)

1pm – 1:50pm What’s Your “Good Enough” & How To Reach It – Cedar room (With Eva Elasigue)

Mythica Village, Cascadia Festival will be hosting writers’ workshops by yours truly!

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My schedule has been announced for Worldcon 75:

Writers and Artists

Wednesday 20:30 – 21:30, 209 (Messukeskus)

How authors interact with illustrators. How SFF covers are created. What visions behind those images.

Barbara G. Tarn (M), Maurizio Manzieri, Valerie Purcell, Zach Dodson, Eva L. Elasigue

Ensemble Casts

Thursday 15:00 – 16:00, 203a (Messukeskus)

The Crew, the Band, the League, the Fellowship – what makes a good ensemble cast for a series of novels or a television show? Are these ensembles diverse or stuck in their ways?

Eva L. Elasigue, Gang Tan, Anne-Marie Tuikka