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OCTOBER 19, 2017 // 7 Stage, TV actress returns to the Hoffman Center Food for thought: Author reads from culinary memoir MANZANITA — Local and literature illuminate each other. award-winning actor Liz Cole returns to the Hoffman The Hoffman Center has presented Cole’s “Story Center for the Arts stage 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, to Time for Grown Ups” five times to enthusiastic audi- present “Bedside Man- ences. ner Reading: A Doctor’s Cole has had a Journey of Literary long acting career Discovery.” on the profession- Doors open at al stage, and has 6:30 p.m. Refresh- made TV guest-star ments will be served. appearances on The presentation “Seinfeld,” “ER,” will be based on “Star Trek,” “The the work of early Liz Cole Practice,” “Judging 20th-century phy- Amy,” “Las Vegas” sician Sir William Osler, known as “The Father and many others. She originated the lead- of Modern Medicine.” ing role in Margaret Edson’s Osler, a Canadian Pulitzer Prize-winning dra- physician, was one of the ma “Wit” in 1995, for which founders of Johns Hopkins she received the L.A. Drama Medical School, and is remembered for his medical Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Performance. humanism. He was an avid Admission to the Oct. 25 reader who brought litera- reading is a suggested $10 ture into his practice. donation. All proceeds go Cole will share some of those readings and reflect on to support Hoffman Center the ways in which medicine programs. MANZANITA — Author Diana Abu- Jaber will read from her latest book, “Life Without a Recipe” at the Hoffman Center for the Arts 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21. The new culinary memoir has been described as “a book of love, death, and cake.” Prominent food writer Ruth Reichl calls it “bold and luscious” and “indispensable to anyone trying to forge their own truer path.” Admission for the evening reading is $7. Diana Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Abu-Jaber Following Abu- Jaber’s reading and Q-and-A in the evening, we’ll have our popular Open Mic where up to nine local or visiting writers will read five minutes of their original work. The suggested (not required) theme for the evening’s open mic is “Food Memo- ries.” Abu-Jaber was born in Syracuse, New York, to an American mother and a Jordanian father. Her family moved to Jordan a few times throughout her childhood, and elements of both her American and Jordanian experiences, as well as cross-cultural issues, especially culinary reflections, appear in her work. Her novels and a previous memoir have won numerous awards, including the Arab-American National Book Award, the PEN Center Award for Liter- ary fiction, the American Book Award, the Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the Oregon Book award for Literary Fiction. Her books have been included in many “top books of the year” lists by National Public Radio, the LA Times, the Washington Post, the Oregonian and others. Diana teaches writing and literature at Portland State University and divides her time between South Florida and Portland. Sew together, grow together at Fiber Arts Circle MANZANITA — The Hoff- man Center for the Arts in Manzanita is hosting a Fiber Arts Circle meeting 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22. Drop-in fee is $5. The Fiber Arts Circle meets the first and third weekend of each month. Meetings are open to all fiber artists working in spinning, weaving, felting, fabric, knitting, quilting and more. Get to know other artists who share an enthusiasm for fiber art. Members share resources, ideas and dilem- mas, get encouragement and help each other focus on projects. The Fiber Arts Circle is led by Jeanine Rumble, a talented fiber artist who recently demonstrated expressive needle felting at the Hoffman Center’s annual Quilt & Fiber Show in July. For more information, visit hoffmanblog.org, call 503-368-3846, email hoffmancenter@nehalem- tel.net, or contact Rumble at rumblemailbox@gmail. com. The Hoffman Center is located at 594 Laneda Ave. ‘Sweet and Salty: Writing the Food Memoir’ Abu-Jaber will teach a writing work- shop at the Hoffman Center for the Arts during the day on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Culinary memoirs are wildly popular, taking readers beyond memory into the senses — especially the deep pleasures of the appetite. Food sharpens the focus, introduces universal themes and endows writing with imaginative, emotional and physical layers of complexity. This workshop will look at ways to write life stories through the culinary lens. There will be prompts, exercises, discussions and food. Attendees will taste, think, compare notes and consider all the ways our connections to eating give rise to remembering and inspiration. Come and see what you cook up! Bring your curiosity, appetite, sense of play and sense of humor. The workshop will be held at the Hoffman Center. Tuition is $40. Register at hoffmanblog.org/regis- ter-for-workshops. The Manzanita Writers’ Series is a program of the Hoffman Center and will be held there (594 Laneda Ave.). For more information, visit hoffman- blog.org, or contact Kathie Hightower, kathiejhightower@gmail.com
