So the workshop has come to an end...

The party you see below celebrated the last of the workshop classes, so sad, but also celebrated the first issue of the Crabtree Newsletter! It Takes a Village. This monthly publication will come out every 15th of the month. So far, copies will be available at Crabtree Corner, 533 East Hastings, Vancouver. An electronic copy will be made available here in the not too distant future. We'll keep you updated!

PARTY!

Vancouver Author Cathleen With reading "On Tats"- amazing!

Josie, Creative Writing facilitator and Nancy, Crabtree Boss, holding that Big Ole Fat check for $500 to fund upcoming newsletters! Thanks Chapman Summer Grant and Trek UBC.

Audience so entralled!

Erin, Deborah, Leslie & Phyllis- Crabtree's finest. Erin, Deborah and Phyllis were Workshop participants

The spread- pretty impresive.

Rager this Friday

This Friday at Oppenheimer Park, the Crabtree Creative Writing Workshop will celebrate the final workshop and the first ever issue of "It Takes a Village" our monthly newsletter. Come! 12-2pm. Food, door prizes, reading, music (if the ghetto blaster is working) and fun! You should really come. All are welcome!

Links to Group Blogs

http://shainaD97.blogspot.com/
http://www.deb-pastelandpurge.blogspot.com/
http://purplelotus2010.blogspot.com/

Blogs to look at for inspiration

Julie and Julia Project the basis for that movie, Julie and Julia, about the girl who cooks Julia Child's recipes. big deal blog.
Momtographer A Vancouver mom
dbrowncooks a cook on Vancouver's DTES
intrepid pens downtown eastside women's centre writing group blog
Mexcla a blog that I did when I was in Mexico.

Our Closest Library: Carnegie.

Hey Carnegie! Thanks!

So far we've read...

excerpts from:
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont
Push by Sapphire
Skids by Cathleen With
Missing Sarah: A Memoir of Loss by Maggie de Vries
The Carnegie Newsletter

poems:
"What We Know About Babies" by Patricia Young
"The Song My Paddle Sings" by Pauline Johnson
"Maybe I Won't Come This Way Again" by Sandy Cameron
"Hochelaga" by Maxine Gadd
"Autobiography" by Margaret Atwood
"After School Special" by Rachel McKibbens (well, really we watched the youtube video)