C e l e b r a t i o n o f w r i t i n g

Saturday, oct. 18, 2014 • 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Murie auditorium, Uaf west ridge

Use yoUrWords!

CoW TALKs with Heather warren as MC Moo

Murie Auditorium

Ideas about writing worth spreading. From 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., speakers will address topics connected to writing through the use of passion, technology, and innovation.

With talks from Regan Campbell “On Blank Verse” to Michael Shaeffer “The State of Slam,” Rose Kim “On Empathy” and moo-re from Hannah C. Hill.

Sponsored by University Writing Program

speak, Memory

Room 103

Come just be in a space to write. Brief quotes and ideas up on the wall may help spark something to say. The space itself is a quiet place where people write. Check out the collaborative board where people share favorite moments from what they’ve produced.

Sponsored by MFA Program in Non-Fiction

Abracadabrant!

Room 105

Transform and remix tired old fairy tales into your own new and inventive story. Take the physical words from the folk tales we all know and love and use them to tell your own colorful tales. All ages.

Sponsored by University Writing Program

Word site — Becoming a Master Builder

Room 107

Build with us! Mad libs style short story creation and poetry scramble remixes. No instruction manual necessary.

Sponsored by E.M.U.

Lit Happens: digital Archive of Literacy Narratives

Room 201

Publish your literacy narrative in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN). The DALN invites people of all ages to record stories about reading, writing, and composing meaning. We will be recording your literacy narratives (via text, audio, or video) and publishing them to the DALN website: http://daln.osu.edu/

Sponsored by University Writing Center

Eating Alaska

Room 110 (kitchen!)

Chew on various cooking/food related writing activities: Alaska cookbooks, multi-media displays, free samples! Bring recipes to swap; help us make a CoW cookbook! Recipes need not involve beef or milk… Are we what we eat?

Sponsored by University Writing Program

NaNoWriMo

Room 202

Learn what Nanowrimo is all about! Sign up for Nanowrimo! As Dave Eggers wrote, “you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice.”

Sponsored by Fairbanks Family of NaNoWriMo

Time Travelling in the Permafrost Tunnel

Room 203

Use your words to enter another time. Come experiment with us and with digital storytelling on Mars in this time-traveling, storytelling scientific adventure! Tickets available at the door, free admission but limited travel dates. Noon and 1 p.m. launch.

Sponsored by a CLA Arts Collaborative Council Grant

Three Ideas: Let’s Juggle

Room 300

Improvisate. Spontenate. Generate. This room functions heavily on spontaneity — and at least four people being there. Carpet adhesive, beef ravioli, Margaret Thatcher…go! Acoustic guitar players welcome. (BYOG — Bring Your Own Guitar, but the cowbell, and other sound makers, will be provided! But you can never have too much cowbell…)

Sponsored by University Writing Program

The Art of Calligraphy

Room 221

Keep the art of hand-lettered calligraphy alive for all ages. Use a calligraphy pen to practice strokes and letterforms and to begin or continue their practice in calligraphy. Youtube tutorials, calligraphy books and soft meditative music. Demonstrations of Japanese calligraphy.

Sponsored by CLA and Department of Foreign Languages

Wordplay

Room 303

Playing games can generate stories and poems by allowing writers to have fun while engaging with unexpected twists and writing in response to others. This room has Story Cubes, Exquisite Skeleton, and other writing games suited for people 10 and up.

Sponsored by University Writing Program

dictionary dialogue

Room 301

Come and talk about dictionaries, play with meanings, and create new words. Several types of dictionaries will be displayed for conversation starters. A game for all ages - person reaches around a partition and touches an item, then describes what is felt to another, who writes it down — then, names it!

Sponsored by University Writing Program

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