SOUTH WATERFRONT
PORTLAND OREGON

Informal Writing Salons with Dmae Roberts:
T/Th, 3-5p; Sa, 11a-1p
AiR Studio Storefront - 3623 SW River Parkway @ Gaines off the John Ross Plaza
Free and open to the public
Culminating event: Soup and Movie Night, Wed., Nov. 28th, 6:30-8:30p

When two-time Peabody Award-winning Writer/Radio Producer Dmae Roberts (center in photo) began shaping her November Guest Artist project for the SWF - “Can I Tell You Something?”, I realized that I had not spent enough time considering how the stories I share and the secrets I reveal shape and inform all of my relationships - how they draw the like-minded close, how they repel those who do not relate, how they seduce those intrigued with the adventure or encounter or experience shared. It is something I took for granted, perhaps because my own creative work does not directly spring from the narrative - at least so far. Of course, one can argue that everything is essentially story, but I was just not tuned into soft vulnerablity and intimacy of it all - that stories are the highways, roads, lanes and back alleys that connect us to people.

I so appreciate that Dmae has chosen to manifest this particular project at the SWF as part of this program. It is profoundly relevant and timely in this place right now.

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