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What makes your home, neighborhood, or city unique? This series of workshops focuses on memories and understandings of home. You are not required to attend each workshop in the series.
Participants will also have the opportunity to publish their work online. These workshops are open to teenagers and adults, and all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome. Participants are not required to attend each workshop in the series.
What does home mean to you? What makes your home, neighborhood, or city unique? How does a place come to feel like home? Join the Kent State University Wick Poetry Center each Wednesday in June at 11 am for a series of creative writing workshops focused on place, belonging, and home. Participants will have the opportunity to respond to model texts and visuals with their own memories and understandings of home.
Read more information on KSU's Wick Poetry Center Mapping Akron project by visiting their website.
EVENT TYPE: | Education | Community Discussion | Books & Writing |
It's not unusual for customers to take a few moments out of their busy day to relax and read in the comfortable chairs beside the Portage Lakes Branch Library's large windows, enjoying the natural light and the beautiful views of flora and fauna. Visitors from surrounding communities—Coventry, New Franklin, Green, Clinton, Canal Fulton, Barberton, and Massillon—join local residents in visiting the Portage Lakes Branch Library to enjoy NatureConnect, learning-through-play and storytime programming, crafting opportunities, book discussions, arts and history informational programming, and more.
With rich book, music, and movie resources, Portage Lakes Branch Library has something for everyone of every age. Computers, WiFi, printing, copying, scanning, and faxing round out the services available at the Portage Lakes Branch Library, making it a one-stop spot for all your learning, business, and entertainment needs and interests.
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