Community Events

Darkside Cinema: Movies showing 4/18 to 4/24, showtimes daily, Darkside Cinema, Corvallis. Visit their website for showtimes.

• The Wind Rises–Pg-13 This animated film is one of the most rapturously beautiful that Miyazaki has made, and all the more unsettling because of it. Subtitled Japanese.
• Le Week-End–Pg-13 A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Jeff Goldblum.
• Particle Fever–NR Physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time- or perhaps their greatest failure. “Even the most math-averse viewer will be on pins and needs to know the results.”
• 13 Sins–R A cryptic phone call sets off a dangerous game of risks for Elliot, a down-on-his luck salesman. The game promises increasing rewards for completing 13 tasks, each more sinister than the last.
  
  
  
  

Literary Events:

• OSU MFA Reading Series 7:30 p.m., April 17, 2014 at New Morning Bakery, Corvallis, featuring Yaakov Schwartz, Kerry Hill, Jesse Johnson, and Dahlia Seroussi.
• Oregon Reads Book Discussion, Wednesday, April 30th, 2014, 7-8:00 p.m. Corvallis Library Main Meeting Room
  In celebration of Oregon Reads 2014, join award-winning poet and OSU faculty member Karen Holmberg, as she leads a discussion of Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems, a book of some of William Stafford’s most beloved poems. Come learn more about why William Stafford’s work is still so influential, talk with others in the community about how his poetry has impacted you, and/or just sit in and listen as Dr. Holmberg guides the audience through Stafford’s poetic mind. Light refreshments will be served.
  

Opportunities:

• Spring Creek's sister organization, the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska is opening registration for their summer symposium "Radical Imagining: Changing the Story with Stories of Change" taking place July 18-25. The event will feature guest faculty Winona LaDuke, Alan Weisman, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Molly Sturges. You can find more details at their website here.
• Writers on the River Playing with Poetry Forms, presented by Linda Varsell Smith Monday, April 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Dennis Hall at the First Presbyterian Church, 114 SW 8th St., Corvallis, OR 97333
  Using a free handbook and PowerPoint, we will play with new and favorite rhymed and unrhymed poetry patterns. Suggestions for further poetic word-play.
  Linda Varsell Smith has published 8 poetry books–two books on free-access websites on forms. She taught poetry and creative writing at LBCC and was the Calyx editor for 31 years. Former president of Oregon Poetry Association and current president of Portland PEN Women.
• Call for Submissions, Campus Creature Census: We invite students, faculty, staff, and community members to explore campus as a natural environment where sequoias and gray squirrels, rhododendrons and chickadees, lichens, spiders, garter snakes and moss co-create the OSU ecosystem. Register for your creature by April 28, submit your Census entry by May 10. Please check the Campus Creature guidelines for details here.
• Ooligan Press, affiliated with Portland State University, is seeking submissions. Ooligan Press aspires to discover works that reflect the values and attitudes that inspire so many to call the Northwest their home. Visit their submissions page for more info.
• Summer With Words Registration is open! Held at the Hallmark Inn & Resort in Cannon Beach, Oregon, June 19-22, this conference offers a full weekend of workshops, presentations, and keynote addresses by noted speakers, best-selling authors, and industry experts will focus on the craft and business of writing. The theme for this year’s conference is Craft, Connection & Community. Visit their website here for more details.
• Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers 2014: Registration is still open! Join fellow writers July 7-13, 2014 for a week of writing and conversation filled with generative workshops, afternoon breakout sessions, open mic events, evening readings and panel discussions all in the beautiful setting of Wallowa Lake. Our theme this year is What the River Says: The Art of Listening in a Turbulent World as we will celebrate the themes and ideals of poet William Stafford on the centennial of his birth. For full details, see their website here.
  
  
  

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Friday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.

121 The Valley Library

Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon

Linda Hogan

A Chickasaw novelist, essayist, and environmentalist, Linda Hogan is the author of seven poetry collections including Seeing Through the Sun (1985), which won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and The Book of Medicines, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (1993). Hogan’s collections of prose reflect her interests in the environment and Native American culture. Her books include the essay collection Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995), The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (2001), and, with Brenda Peterson, Sighting: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey (2002). Hogan’s novels include Mean Spirit (1990), Solar Storms (1995), Power (1998), and People of the Whale: A Novel (2008). Active as an educator and speaker, Hogan taught at the University of Colorado and at the Indigenous Education Institute.

This event is sponsored by the Oregon State University School of Writing, Literature, and Film. Books will be available for purchase from Grass Roots Books & Music at this event.

Friday, April, 25, 7:30 pm

121 The Valley Library

Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of “20 Under 40” fiction writers by the New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Otis College of Art and Design.

This event is sponsored by the Oregon State University School of Writing, Literature, and Film. Books will be available for purchase from Grass Roots Books & Music at this event.

Tuesday, April 29, 7:00 p.m.

LaSells Stewart Center

875 SW 26th Street

Adam Braun

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

OSU Discovery Lecture Series

Adam Braun is the Founder and CEO of Pencils of Promise, an award-winning nonprofit
organization that has opened more than 150 schools across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and delivered more than 10 million educational hours in its first five years. PoP was founded with just $25 using what Adam coined as a “For-Purpose” approach to blending nonprofit idealism with for-profit business principles. In 2012, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List. Pencils of Promise has been identified as one of the world’s most impactful new nonprofits by luminaries such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, and Barbara Walters. Using short, pithy mantras that anyone can adopt, in this talk Adam shares his experience as a model for how to get “unstuck,” outlining 10 key steps that can actively transform even the smallest ideas into a big reality. This event is sponsored by the OSU Office of the Provost, the Research Office and University Relations and Marketing.

Books will be available for purchase from Grass Roots Books and Music at this event.