EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, October 16, 5:00 p.m. EST
Real Conversation Remembered:
Writing Dialogue for Memoir with Cara Lopez Lee
The Muse Online Writers Conference
Free Chat Workshop
Readers put their trust in memoirists to share an honest story. However, memoir isn't journalism, but literature—and good literature features good dialogue. How do you turn real conversation into engaging dialogue? And what do you do when you can't remember what he said/she said? Cara Lopez Lee discovered the answers to those questions while writing her memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands (Ghost Road Press, Fall 2010). For the past five years, she has shared her skills with other memoirists, as an editor and ghostwriter. So, if you're writing a memoir, don't give up on that half-written scene about those people you half-remember. Let Cara show you how to get them talking.
RECENT EVENTS
Thursday, August 5, 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Continues through August 27, Wed - Sun, noon - 4:00 p.m.
Homes Within, Communities Without: A Digital Storytelling Exhibit
Plus exhibits by 5 other visual and literary artists from Denver's Biennial Residency
Here at Home: 6 Artists
PlatteForum & Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Riverfront Park, 1610 Little Raven Street, Suites #135, 120 & 170
Denver, CO 80202
Lighthouse Writers Workshop and PlatteForum have come together to offer a residency for four visual and two literary artists, to collaborate and create new work around the themes of the Denver Biennial of the Americas: Innovation, Sustainability, The Arts, and Community. Cara Lopez Lee is working on two digital stories, which will combine video, photos, music, and words to contemplate the theme of community. In one story, Cara will explore how she experiences and creates community as someone with a home. In another story, a young woman who recently spent several months homeless will explore how that has affected the way she experiences and creates community. What separates the communal experiences of these two women? What connects them? Come find out at the Here at Home exhibit at PlatteForum, which runs from Aug. 5 through Aug. 27.
Saturday, May 22, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Ride the Web to an Adventure All About You
Girls Trek Too Workshop
The venue for this event has changed.
If you would like to attend, please contact Cara for updated info.
Cost: $30 by May 8th, $35 by May 20th, $40 at the door
If you like to travel, Cara's Girls Trek Too workshops offer you a chance to discover how to create your own adventures, not just vacations. Cara enjoys sharing her 20 years of experience in planning adventure travel. At the next Girls Trek Too Workshop, she'll guide you as you navigate the Internet to create an itinerary for a personalized journey of exploration and discovery. This is also your chance to hear Cara give a brief reading from her memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands.
Saturday, February 27, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Writer's Buzz: The Story of a Book
The Lighthouse Writers Workshop
My thanks to the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, my friends, and the warm audience that came to the February Writer's Buzz. It was thrilling to share the story of my book with more than 100 people at the standing-room-only event! Lighthouse is truly a beacon for Denver's creative writing community, and I felt honored to be included in such an accomplished panel of writers. —Cara Lopez Lee
Photos by Lynn Gorham Clark
