IN PERSON - From “Ouch,” to Awesome with Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process
micro-workshop | Monday, May 1, 2023 | 11-1pm MT
Instructor: S. Portico Bowman
MEMBER PRICE: $45.00 (with member coupon AWCSM25)
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $60.00
Writers do more than write. Sometimes we teach, and other times we must learn. The critique experience is a “critical” hinge that controls how effective we can be in either role. Liz Lerman, dancer, choreographer, and exceptional human being, offers a humane, teachable, and learnable four-step method can transform your perspective on what can, and should happen in a critique setting.
This workshop takes place in person at the Alexandra Writers Centre Society in Calgary.
S. Portico Bowman writes to puzzle and play. Infinite structures of language craft the images for characters who have unpredictable and transformative lives. Bowman grew up on the Canadian Prairies, and lived for a short while in Massachusetts. She later received her MFA degree in Ceramics at UT Knoxville in Tennessee. Bowman is also a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto.
Bowman taught in Kansas for twenty years where she worked as an art professor, art writer and gallery director at Pittsburg State University.
She was recently awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation grant for her second book, Would You Give Up Arms For Wings: a story inspired by the visionary life and writings of Paulus Berensohn. Bowman has been invited by the Literary Press Group of Canada to give a reading at Memorial University in St. John’s Newfoundland in November 2022 from her first novel Cashmere Comes From Goats, published by Stonehouse Publishing.
Portico lives with her husband Tom and their understanding cat, Florence, in Prairie Village, KS and teaches at Francis Parker School in San Diego, CA when she can.