What the fashionable nightstands are wearing in 2013...
Reminder...Some courses in the Studio are starting next week
This year give yourself the gift of creativity...expand your horizons, draw new ones, write more, write better.
Upcoming Events and Course Start Dates for January 2013
Jan 9, 2013, Pen in Hand, Ink on Page
– Five weeks of writing with instructor and certified AWA leader, Sue Reynolds, Wednesday afternoons from 12:30 to 3:00
Jan 9, 2013, A TASTE OF INK
– A 6-week Writing Exploration with James Dewar, Dorothea Helms and/or Sue Reynolds
Wednesday evenings 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Jan 16, 2013 Blue Heron Book club
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 6:30pm dinner, 7:30 discussion
Jan 17, 2013 Life Drawing Sessions
– in Blue Heron Studio, 7-9pm
Jan 23, 2013 Experience Raw
▪ In conjunction with Passionate Cook’s Essentials, we welcome Vegan Raw Chef, Doug McNish, author of Eat Raw, Eat Well,7-9pm
Jan. 27, 2013 Books and Brunch
▪ with Linden MacIntyre author of The Bishop’s Man and Why Men Lie, at Wooden Sticks Golf Club, 11am-1pm
A Final Word from Shelley...
My good buddy, fabulous author and bookseller extraordinaire (at Bolen Books in Victoria), Robert Wiersema, had this to say about one of the most unique books of 2012. The wave of the future???
"This is it for me, the Book of the Year, and it’s not even really a book at all.
Except, it is. Well, sort of.
Let me explain.
Building Stories, the latest from graphic novelist Chris Ware, is an oversize box, containing 14 book-like objects, ranging from pamphlets to booklets, magazines and newspapers to a hardcover book. Each of these pieces forms a chapter to a larger work, the story of a hundred-year-old apartment building and its residents. The chapters can be read in any order; the book/box is not only about the narratives it contains, but about how we build stories (think about the title again: Building Stories is a collection of stories centered around a building, and the act of reading it is the act of building stories…), about how we make meaning out of memory, dream, experience… You won’t read Building Stories just once: you’ll come back to it, over and over again, changing the order of the pieces, changing the story itself… It’s a heady experience, and unlike anything you’ve ever read before."
▪ New York Times Book Review, Top 10 Books of the Year ▪ Time Magazine, Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year ▪ Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year ▪ Kirkus Reviews, Top 10 Fiction of 2012 ▪ Newsday, Top 10 Books of 2012 ▪ Entertainment Weekly, Gift Guide, A+ ▪ Washington Post, Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012 ▪ Minneapolis Star Tribune, Best Books of the Year ▪ Cleveland Plain Dealer, Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year ▪ Amazon, Best Books of the Year/Comics ▪ Boing Boing, Best Graphic Novel of the Year
