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