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Event Starts at 5:30pm

All ages welcome.

Free parking is available in the lot across the street until full.

A creative writing workshop, open mic, and film screening community event at The Abbey. Poets and writers will engage in a 1-hour cross-genre / poetry writing workshop in conversation with the themes, subjects, and ideas of the selected film. A 45-minute community open mic will follow, inviting attendees to share new creative work and build literary community with each other. A free admission community film screening will conclude the event, encouraging donations and concession stand purchases beforehand. Workshop participants will be additionally encouraged to engage with the film as an ekphratic inspiration to continue their workshop drafts at a future date.

Each stage of the event will be donation-based, pay what you can, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Brennan DeFrisco is a poet, teaching artist, editor & program coordinator living in Portland, Oregon by way of the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2017 Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, & a county arts coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He’s the author of A Heart With No Scars, published by Nomadic Press & has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of Lunch Ticket, Caesura & Meow Meow Pow Pow. Brennan facilitates creative writing and performance workshops, serving K-12 classrooms, incarcerated youth, adults, seniors, and various arts education programs. His work has been published in Red Wheelbarrow, Words Dance, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Collective Unrest, & elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.

March’s film screening will be 20th Century Women: