Dear Friends,
For a full schedule of events, see below.
Because of lingering Covid concerns, all of our events will take place outdoors.
We recommend common sense social distancing measures.
In the event of inclement weather, check back to this website for venue updates.
As many of you already know, due to a family tragedy, our dear friend Rosemerry
Wahtola Trommer won't be able to join us. A healing circle for Rosemerry and her
family will be led by Sandra Dorr on Sunday morning.
We are fortunate that Craig Childs has agreed to teach a workshop during the time
Rosemerry's workshop was allocated.
WIth special thanks to our sponsors:
*The Blue Pig Gallery in Palisade
*Lithic Bookstore in Fruita
*Talbott's Tap Room and Cider House on East Orchard Mesa
* Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor,
The GoodTimes Scholarship and two half scholarships
are available for those in need, in the name of
Norwood's own Art Goodtimes.
All access pass: $95
Individual events/classes: $33 ea.
To purchase an all-access pass, individual
classes/events, or to apply for a scholarship,
email
coloradawendy@gmail.com with the subject header:
Confluence.
*
FULL SCHEDULE:FRIDAY:
Words for the Wild, a Walking Workshop
with
Rick KempaWhen: Fri., Sept 10, 8:30-10 am
Where: Riverbend Park,
451 Pendleton St, Palisade
Meet at the East Shelter,
(left of the entrance, near the picnic table
and facilities)
A conversation rich with examples and ideas of how we might bring the exactitude that is the scientist’s mind-set
(observing, detailing, naming)—to inform, enrich, and transform our own poetry and prose. Rick will bring
short excerpts to share from writers who excel in exactitude. We’ll have an open discussion of practical ways
we might aim to do the same. During this walking workshop by the river, we’ll learn to effectively take notes
from the natural world around us, so be sure and bring a notebook.
-----------------------------
Memoir, a Writing Workshop with
Rebecca MullenWhen: Fri Sept 10: 10:15-11:30 am
Where: Riverbend Park,
451 Pendleton St, Palisade
Meet at the East Shelter,
(left of the entrance, near the picnic table
and facilities)
Memoir is most fun to read when we can sense the author is discovering something previously unknown about the world. This discovery renders time more malleable and invites inquiry to blow through the body of our work.
But how can we write with this fresh approach? In this workshop, we’ll learn some simple drawing techniques and apply them to our writing. We’ll explore new ways to ground our work in the natural world and discover how to see details —and their interconnections— differently.
--------------------------------------***** Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dr Chris Lepisto has had to cancel his lecture. **********
What’s in The Blood? with
Kierstin BridgerWhen: Fri, Sept 10, 1:00-2:15 pm
Where: Talbott's Tap Room, (patio seating)
3800 F 1/4 Rd., East Orchard Mesa
(at the top of 38 Rd, aka the Fruit and Wine
Scenic Byway) in Palisade
Let’s talk about the cauldron of medicinals: abortifacients, and balms, the chemical compounds of contraceptives and the healing art of making friends with the past. Let’s talk about Laudanum and Balm of Gilead, the chemical makeup of cosmetics and the voice of a drug- addled mind. Let’s talk about sweat dabbed with the cool white sponge of mushrooms and the weird way opium or beetle back can enter a poem, infusing it with an elemental surprise, how it can etch the very mandibles of our lyrics with a scientific truth. Sure, our senses move through a poem, but we can also use the backstory of medicine in our narratives. Our poems have addictions and ailments too. Those addictions have precise hungers built on compounds and formulas. I’ll bring examples: my own as well as the works of others and we’ll discuss ways to animate our poems with the charm of both botanical remedies and chemical compounds.We’ll tap into a fresh creative vein. Bring pen and paper -- No need to bleed on the page!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The Way of Tsukuba: Renga Party,
with
Jimi BernathWhen: Fri, Sept 10, 2:45 -3:45
Where: Talbott's Tap Room, (patio seating)
3800 F 1/4 Rd, East Orchard Mesa
(at the top of 38 Rd, aka the Fruit and Wine
Scenic Byway) in Palisade
Renga, or linked verse is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ku are linked in succession by multiple poets. Known as tsukuba no michi (筑波の道 The Way of of Tsukuba) after the famous Tsukuba Mountain in the Kantō region, this poetic form is said to have originated in a two-verse poetry exchange with Yamato Takeru and later gave birth to the genres haikai (俳諧) and haiku (俳句). Renga sequences were typically composed live during gatherings of poets. Join us as we learn the playful ways of Renga and link our verses together.
----------------------------------
Writing Like a River, a writing workshop
with Craig Childs
When: Fri, Sept 10, 4:00 - 5:30
Where:Trickster Ridge
Writing is not just linear, not sentences, paragraphs, pages, a book. It curls, coils, and drops into rapids, then plays out into placid pools. Organic patterning is an important part of the flow. With pen and paper, or laptop if one chooses, we will practice writing frontward and backward, talking about the big picture of writing projects and the little pictures of words spilling one into the next. Come ready to write, listen, and share.
------------------------------------------------
FRIDAY NIGHT On the Edge:When: Fri, Sept 10, 7 pm-11 pm
Where: Trickster Ridge in Palisade
(address provided on registration)
Hosted by
Wendy Videlock 7 pm:
Invocation: Daiva Chesonis
Gongs Along the Palisades: with
Mary Hertert and
Jere Friedman8:30 ish
Readings featuring:
Erica Waters, Craig Childs, Rachel Kellum,
, Jesse Tsinajinnie Maloney9:30 ish
Late Night Friday on the Edge:
Reaching for The Continent: a dance-party with
Uche OgbujiUche will be spinning music from his native Africa, ranging from the 60s to the present year. Come dance with the tumba, djembe and talking drum, while you groove with the griot, jive with the djali, find the urge in the oja, or just nod your noggin.
------------------------------
SATURDAY:
Rivers and Mountains Forever, a Walking Conversation
with
Peter AndersonWhen: Sat, Sept 11, 8:30-10 am
Where: Palisade Rim Trail, lower loop trail
(a short, moderately easy hike)
Meet at the Trail Head.
Palisade Rim Trail Information:
http://www.gohikecolorado.com/palisade-rim-trail.html
Spanning the centuries since its origins in the 5th Century C.E., China’s rivers-and-mountains poetry tradition, according to poet and translator David Hinton, “is the most extensive engagement with wilderness in human history.” Many of the plain-spoken voices from this tradition encounter the day-to-day details of mountain life in poems that resonate with many contemporary mountain dwellers. Under the big skies of the western slope, we’ll visit with some of the poets from this tradition, consider their approach to living a fully-realized mountain life, and carry a few of their lines into our own poetic explorations.
----------------------------------
The Anatomy of Poetry: 'A Writing Workshop with Erica Waters
When: Sat., Sept 11, 8:30-10 am
Where: Riverbend Park, 451 Pendleton St., Palisade
Meet at the East Shelter, left of the entrance, near
the picnic table and facilities
How do you begin writing? Do you start with a subject? Or do you experiment with form for inspiration? Anatomy is structure; physiology is function. In this writing workshop, we will focus on anatomy as a guiding foundation by using a couple of traditional forms - like pantoum and villanelle - or perhaps you'll bring a form of your own. We will experiment with how anatomy may empower your physiology - whether within the space of a poem or in a larger context. As poet Derick Burleson suggests of the villanelle, forms can illuminate doorways to even impossible stories, and, often, the more difficult the subject, the more structure can function as a key to unlock the rooms we seek. Which doors will open when we put anatomy first?
---------------------------------
Workers Rights and the Economic and Cultural Impact on the Navajo Nation, a conversation with
Jesse Tsinajinnie MaloneyWhere:Riverbend Park, 451 Pendleton St., Palisade (East shelter, left of the entrance, near the picnic tables)
When: Sat Sept 11, 10:15- 11:30 am
To understand the current economic state of the Navajo Reservation it is imperative to understand the Navajo Preference in Employment Act, (NPEA). It is law in place intended to prevent outsourcing of the Nation’s workforce similar to law in other nations with the same intention. Yet, unique to the Navajo Nation, it is often misunderstood through a racial lens in conflict with the Civil Rights Act of 1991. In this discussion, Jesse will explore Navajo Law and other misconceptions about the reservation policy that unfairly dominate discourse relating to economics and culture on the reservation. We’ll walk through relevant facets of NPEA and its practical application as it relates to similar laws elsewhere; financial and socioeconomic impact.
------------------------------------------
The One-Word Poem, with
Orlando WhiteWhere:Talbott's Tap Room, (patio seating) 3800 F 1/4 Rd, East Orchard Mesa
(at the top of 38 Rd, aka the Fruit and Wine Scenic Byway) in Palisade
When: 12:45-1:45 The process of writing a one-word poem on the page involves playfulness, along with the willingness to take
risks with imagination—because to write means to link the brain, the eyes, the hands simultaneously: it’s that coordination of the poet’s artistic vision and creative action, which can reveal a word’s identity through its image.
The Powerful, Patient Word, a roundtable discussion on the many ways we use language, how language forms thought, and how we might deepen our understanding of language as it pertains to consciousness, with Daiva Chesonis, Pete Anderson, Brian Palmer, Craig Childs, and Wendy Videlock.
When: 2- 3:30 pm
Where: Trickster Ridge in Palisade (address provided on registration)
--------------------------
“The Voice of Poetry with
David J RothmanWhere: Lithic Bookstore, 138 South Park Square,(upstairs) Fruita or M Rd Retreat n Fruita
When: Sat Sept 11, 4:15-5:30 pm
David will discuss Michael Oakeshott's famous essay ,"The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind." In this great essay, Oakeshott argues that this conversation has essentially three components: the practical business of daily life; the disinterested pursuit of truth, (or science); and the poetic, which is the voice of delight. It is the third voice, he argues, the voice of poetry, that has been slighted and poorly understood in the modern world. This talk will not only give a summary of Oakeshott's complex argument, but also suggest how it helps us to think more clearly about pedagogy, curriculum, and most importantly, the role of art in our lives.
------------------
SATURDAY NIGHT DELIGHTS:Where: Circle Park in Fruita, just outside Lithic Bookstore
When: 7pm
Readings: featuring:
Sandra Dorr , Orlando White, Kierstin Bridger, and David Rothman Host:
Danny Rosen Readings will be accompanied by Musical Guest:
Jesse Maloney OPEN MIC hosted by Danny Rosen
SATURDAY Late Show:
A Walk In The Night Sky with
Danny Rosen Where: M Road Retreat, Fruita, (address provided on registration)
When:9:30 ishPoetry tumbles from the fact that we live on a small rocky planet circling a sustained nuclear fusion explosion that, along with lots of other stars, is part of the Milky Way, one of many galaxies which, along with a huge amount of empty space, makes up the Universe. As late-stage neoliberal capitalism rapidly devolves into chaos, it can be awe-inspiring, hope-inducing and comforting to contemplate the larger world. We will be viewing the night sky with the naked eye and through a telescope, making more familiar the planets, stars, constellations, and galaxies in the night sky at this time of year.
SUNDAY:
Healing Circle for Rosemerry and her family,led by Sandra DorrWhen: Sun., Sept 12, 9 am
Where: Riverbend Park, 451 Pendleton St., Palisade (East Shelter, left of the entrance)
Closing Gourd Ceremony,
a unique western slope tradition, in which all participants pass the gourd and are invited to share a poem, a song, or some thoughts, with
Art Goodtimes When: Sun Sept 12, 10 am
Where: Riverbend Park, 451 Pendleton St, Palisade
East Shelter, (left of the entrance)
*********************************
*Proceeds from this festival will be divided between our marvelous teachers and Child and Migrant Services in Palisade.
