Community Events

Darkside Cinema: Movies showing Oct. 18 to 24, showtimes daily, Darkside Cinema, Corvallis. Visit their website for showtimes.

• SHORT TERM 12 –R: Short Term 12 is an emphatic, revealing drama that pulls audiences into the perspective of neglected youths. 99% on Rotten Tomatoes!
• ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE –R: Mandy Lane, a good girl who became quite hot over the summer, is invited to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop quite mysteriously.
• LEE DANIEL’S: THE BUTLER –R: Forest Whitaker stars with Robin Williams, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, James Marsden, Liev Schreiber.
• IN A WORLD –R: “Savvy, screwball, feminist comedy gem.”

OSU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL V
The fifth International Film Festival, showcasing a diverse array of movies from international cultures, will be held Oct. 14-20 in Corvallis. The International Film Festival is organized by Oregon State University's School of Language, Culture, and Society. Admission is free and open to the public. All screenings are held at the Darkside Cinema, 215 SW 4th St. in Corvallis. OSU faculty member Sebastian Heiduschke strongly encourages patrons to arrive early to get tickets. Reservations are not available. Tickets are available 15 minutes before show times.

Literary Events: Visit our Community Calendar for details on these events and others in the area.

• Oregon State University Creative Writing MFA Reading Series, featuring Sean Crouch, Michael Wasson, and Jesse Donaldson: Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m., New Morning Bakery, Corvallis. Enjoy dessert treats or $2 wine and $3 beer specials.
• Nye Beach Writers Series Presents an Evening with Toni Hanner and Allan Peterson, followed by an Open Mic: Saturday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m., Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport.
• Random Reviews: Larry Landis reviews Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan: Wednesday, Nov. 13, noon to 1 p.m., Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Corvallis.
  

Opportunities:

• Writers on the River: Monday, Oct. 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
  C. Lill Ahrens presents “Creating a Movie in the Reader’s Mind – Self-editing for Prose Writers” at the First Presbyterian Church, Corvallis.
  This presentation is not about fixing your grammar or tightening your prose. It’s about editing the big picture. Since only you can know your big picture, self-editing is crucial for success. And if you like logic, self-editing is also lots of fun. Come prepared to take copious notes. Lill will be explaining what the pieces are and how to know where they belong in your work of prose.
  C. Lill Ahrens teaches two guided critique classes at the Benton Center, “The Writers’ Workroom” and “The Secrets of Story Writing,” which have helped many class members become award-winning and published. She is also an editor for Calyx Journal, the contest director for Oregon Writers Colony, and a freelance editorial consultant. Her own award-winning stories are published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008: True Stories from Around the World.
• Autumn Campus Creature Ramble: A Walking Workshop for Photography and Creative Writing
  Sunday, Oct. 27, 9 a.m. to Noon
  With Grass Roots’ Own Jill Sisson!
  Celebrate the distinctive flora, fauna and landscapes of autumn with a slow Sunday morning stroll through the OSU campus. Participants will pause at a handful of sites around campus to experience a sense of place. Guides will prompt creative responses to the environment at these locations through photography and writing of any kind. Participants with all types of cameras and with all levels of writing and photographic experience are welcome. Participants will be strongly encouraged to unplug for a few hours and fully experience their immediate surroundings. The ramble will be followed with an evening session —Wednesday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m. —when participants can share their favorite images and writing from the ramble.
  Free. Open to the first 12 people to register (the workshop can accommodate participants with disabilities). TO REGISTER: e-mail: carly.lettero@oregonstate.edu. Meeting location and other info will be sent upon registration.
  Guides: Jill Sisson and Cub Kahn are creative environmental educators. Jill, who has spent recent summers as a seasonal naturalist in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Death Valley National Park, shares her nature writing and photography through the Brambled Way blog. Cub has produced 4 nature photo books including The Art of Photographing Water, and has been leading photo workshops for 25+ years.
  
• Writers on the River: Monday, Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Corvallis
  Kate Ristau will offer the presentation “Putting Away the Red Pen: Editing With Purpose”. Bring a current draft of your writing, or use a sample draft for an interactive editing workshop. Dialogue, exposition and description will be looked at specifically to help you know when to edit, and when to leave it be!
• Call for Submissions: The Bard Deluxe Awards presented by The Bear Deluxe Magazine
  Attn: Emerging Oregon poets focused on a “sense of place”
  Deadline: Jan. 13 (email or postmark)
  Not a famous poet yet? You can be declared a Bard Deluxe by submitting up to 3 unpublished, place-based poems to The Bear Deluxe Magazine (bear@orlo.org or 810 SE Belmont Studio 5, Portland OR 97214). To enter this free contest, judged by Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen, you must be a current or former Oregonian. Winners will receive publication, reach our 44,000 readers and be invited to perform their work. Visit www.orlo.org for complete submission guidelines and further details.
  
  
  

Ticket Sales: Grass Roots sells tickets for local music events. Check our Community Calendar for upcoming events that we have available.

Saturday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m.

LaSells Stewart Center, C & E Auditorium

875 SW 26th Street, Corvallis

Braiding Sweetgrass: Environmental Science and Creative Writing

With Alison Hawthorne Deming and Robin Kimmerer

Robin Kimmerer and Alison Hawthorne Deming are explorers of the interface between environmental sciences and creative expression. Join us for reading and conversation exploring what good things can happen when analytical and imaginative traditions work in tandem.

The evening will be a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program, and will feature Robin Kimmerer’s just-released new book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, an inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative. Alison Hathorne Deming is the author of The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World.

Since its inception in 2003, Long-Term Ecological Reflections has hosted more than 40 writers-in-residence at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, and sponsored field symposia on challenging topics such as “The Meaning of Watershed Health” and “New Metaphors for Restoration.” Writings produced by our writers-in-residence have appeared in prominent national publications such as The Atlantic, Orion, and OnEarth.

Friday, Oct. 25
Music at 6:30,
Reading at 7 p.m.

Whiteside Theater

361 SW Madison Ave., Corvallis

The Magic Barrel: A Reading to Fight Hunger

The Magic Barrel: A Reading to Fight Hunger rolls again this year to raise funds for the Linn Benton Food Share. The liveliest literary event of the year features a dazzling lineup, led by this year’s emcee, National Book Award winner Barry Lopez. This year’s readers are Robert Crum, Matthew Dickman, Henry Hughes, Lauren Kessler, Wendy Madar, Elena Passarello, Gina Ochsner, Susan Jackson Rodgers, and Joe Wilkins. Blues musicians Dave Plaehn and Jeff Hino will perform starting at 6:30 p.m., and again during intermission and after the event. The readings will start a 7 p.m.

For the second year in a row, The Magic Barrel will be held in the historic Whiteside Theatre, a 1920s Italian Renaissance movie palace in downtown Corvallis under restoration. A reception will feature free hors d’oeuvres and sweets as well as wine from Miracle Winery. There will be a silent auction of a beautiful intaglio print donated by award-winning artist and OSU professor Yuji Hiratsuka, entitled Fruit Handlers. Authors will greet listeners and sign books, which will be available for purchase from Grass Roots Books and Music.

Admission is a suggested donation of $9 at the door, but listeners are encouraged to give what they can. Nobody is turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds will go to Linn Benton Food Share to fight hunger in the Corvallis-Albany community. Last year’s event raised more than $5,000 for the food bank.

Friday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m.

The Valley Library at OSU

Corvallis

The Literary Northwest Series Presents

Charles Goodrich and Mary Szybist

The Literary Northwest Series will host authors Charles Goodrich and Mary Szybist at OSU. Grass Roots Books & Music will sell their books at this event.

Charles Goodrich is the author of three volumes of poems, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, Insects of South Corvallis, and, just out from Silverfish Review Press, A Scripture of Crows, and a collection of essays about nature, parenting, and building their house, The Practice of Home. He now serves as Director for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State, a program that hosts writers' residencies, literary readings, and symposia at the intersection of literature, environmental science, and ethics.

Mary Szybist is Assistant Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College, and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of Granted (2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Incarnadine, a finalist for the National Book Award, published by Graywolf Press in 2013. The latter collection was just shortlisted for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry. She was one of two recipients of the 2009 Witter Bynner Award, selected by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan for the Library of Congress.