Thursday, March 29
MARQUEE EVENT this day:
Ojai WRITE IN!
Hang out with your pencils, make friends with a pen.
5 p.m. – Midnight, All Over Ojai & In Your Own Home | FREE
An entire night devoted to writing! So WRITE! Stay in and write, venture out to your regular writing hang out, create a writers party just for the night, or join a writers’ gathering.
DETAILS:
What: WRITE IN – Stay put or go out, but write!
When: Thursday, March 29
Where: All Over Ojai
Fee: FREE
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ALL EVENTS on THURSDAY
Breakfast with Books: “Secrets of Saudi Women” hosted by author, Chris Cryer, college writing instructor | 9 – 11 a.m. | Full of Beans Coffee House, 11534 N. Ventura Ave. FREE | Discuss the life of a teacher & her muse retracing her adventures as a single mother working for the Saudis.
Writers’ Pad – Read. Write. Doodle. Daydream. Whatever. Yeah, it’s that laid back and that sublime! | 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Bart’s Books of Ojai, 302 W. Matilija St. | FREE | Home to the largest independently owned and operated outdoor bookstore in the U.S.A filled with nearly one million books ranging from the .35 cent specials which line the outside walls (for sale on an honor system: take a book, leave some coins), to rare, out of print first editions, and art books valued in the thousands of dollars.
“What is a Living Book?” | Noon | Ojai Library, 111 E. Ojai Ave. | FREE | Mary Lynch, City Librarian explains Ojai Library’s newest program—launching in April—that enables Ojai residents to “check out” actual people, similar to the way one might check out a book from the Library. The new program matches “readers” with individuals who are “living books” for a few hours on the Library premises, allowing the reader to get an in-depth read on a singular person who may reside in the same small village of Ojai yet have varying backgrounds, areas of expertise, and life stories.
Writing Workshop: “Making a Living as a Ghost Writer” with Ojai author Larry Chambers | 3 – 5 p.m. | World University, 107 N. Ventura Ave. | $49. Pay Online or at Door | For the last 20 years, Chambers has made a living as a professional writer, screenwriter, ghostwriter, and author. He has written 49 books and thousands of articles on topics ranging from his experiences as an Army Ranger during the Vietnam War (his bestselling memoir Recondo) to how to attract business and survive the challenges of the rough-and-tumble business world. | Larry is one of the three recipients of the 2012 Ojai WordFest “Local Literary Legend” Award.
Puppet Theater Playtime | 3 – 4 p.m. | Ojai Library, 111 E. Ojai Ave. | FREE | Professor Marbles (Robert Gluckson) presents a puppet-making workshop. Make paper bag puppets and create stories you can act out with friends.
The First Annual Kids ‘Poetry Slam’ | 3:30 p.m | Oak View Center of the Boys & Girls Club of Ventura, 555 Mahoney Avenue (home of the Oak View library site) | FREE | Club members, up through the 8th grade, will perform for the public.
“Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything” by Geneen Roth with local author Carrie Triffet 4 p.m. | Ojai Library, 111 E. Ojai Ave. | FREE
OQ Party & Household Gods Concert – Appreciation Night for Ojai WordFest’s Crew & Volunteers sponsored by Ojai Quarterly (OQ) magazine. Private party. If you want to attend next year, volunteer with Ojai WordFest!
Ojai Write In | 5 p.m. – Midnight | All Over Ojai & In Your Own Home | FREE | An entire night devoted to writing! So WRITE! Venture out to your regular writing hang out and write. Create a writers’ party where everyone writes. Join one of the writers’ gatherings happening in Ojai and write. Or Stay in and write. | “Just try it in bed sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees, and I scribble away. Thinking is easy work, and there isn’t much labor in moving your fingers sufficiently to get the words down.” – Mark Twain describing his writing process, “How Mark Twain Writes in Bed” The New York Times, April 12 1902. And while in bed, the story goes, he completed these four books: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889).
• Writer’s Workshop with Doc and Zoe Murdock | 5:30 – 8 p.m. | Ojai Library, 111 E. Ojai Ave. | FREE | A weekly critique and discussion group for writers of fiction. Focuses on advanced writing techniques and is patterned on writing workshops taught at the University of Utah and UCLA.
• Feed-Back | 7 – 10 p.m. | The Village Jester, 139 East Ojai Ave. | FREE | Join us at Nigel’s downtown pub to read (out loud) from your writings: a finished piece, a work in progress or on that great idea you just scribbled on the cocktail napkin. Arrive hungry and thirsty for great food and drinks (cleverly named after Literary Greats). Sign up sheet at the pub for 3-minute reads. Writers of all levels and genres welcome.
