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Brave Irene's

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LXCL:GET LIT. Toward a culture of enfranchisement &amp; delight.

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1785356849/wysiwyg/xi6yjkfeb8miikwxhiwc.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> BRAVE IRENE&#39;S IS ONE YEAR OLD! Come celebrate and raise funds for its future. Join us at one of the city&#39;s prettiest historical homes, graciously offered by friends of Brave Irene&#39;s, for a night of joy.&nbsp; DRINKSDINNER BY LA&#39;AU&#39;SLIVE MUSIC: MARIACHI &amp; OLD TIMECRANKIE BOX STORYTELLINGRACQUET SPORTSLITERARY HIJINKS&amp; more Please save the date for our first fundraiser. Tickets are tax-deductible and are $50 for individuals $90 for a pair $120 for a family. All proceeds go to support a living literary culture of enfranchisement and delight. Dress smart. Bring a book you love. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1785357646/wysiwyg/ykafxhj4rmjfhtl5lkmu.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1785357866/wysiwyg/reohx9lbzjkgbrsuunnz.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1785357713/wysiwyg/mtjgtkbsitzxlntmxcf4.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> A few photos from the last year:&nbsp;Children learning to stitch books; ballad school; the early morning drive to a correctional facility; bookbinding in the mall.

Brave Irene's 1st Birthday Fundraiser

SUNDAY&nbsp;AUGUST 23 Doors open at 5 Bee starts at 5:30 DRINK &amp; FOOD SPECIALS CASH &amp; PRIZES JOY &amp; JOKES GOOD TIMES FOR ALL Can you spell summer, smoker, sauerkraut, solstice, Frigidaire, aperitif, wave, crochet, bye-bye? Do you wish you&rsquo;d taken a ribbon home from the Science Fair? Are you feeling those back-to-school new-glue-stick feelings? Come compete! Get the other nurses or physical therapists or gangsters or paralegals or dog walkers or ex-boyfriends or grocery baggers you associate with to sign up too. This is gonna be fun. $2 suggested donation to watch. $6 to spell. All ages welcome. Must be 16 or older to compete in the Spelling Bee. In the gym at beautiful Ivywild School, 1604 S. Cascade Ave. Photo of Ivywild by Heather Powell Browne.

BRAVE IRENE'S SPELLING BEE

(Image: Watercolor painting of the yard at La Vista, the cover of a thank-you note, by a yearlong student in Brave Irene&#39;s courses there.)&nbsp; The Prison Lit Project offers inmates college-level craft-driven courses in the best our tradition has to offer. These courses &nbsp;introduce students to modes of writing, including, but not limited to: the Art of the Letter, Writing Picture Books for Children, Free Verse, Formal Poetry, the Short Story, the Novella, Rhetoric, the Comic Memoir, Reading the Harlem Renaissance, and the Novel. Reading comes first in this pedagogy, and students learn to write better by imitation of the astonishing and beautifully made works they read. Some classes will include a drawing component as well, as it is the founder&#39;s conviction that drawing and writing go hand in hand.&nbsp; Literacy is enfranchisement. As a country, we are losing literacy. This loss is particularly pronounced among people who are incarcerated. According to the National Literacy Institute, &quot;To determine how many prison beds will be needed in future years, some states actually base part of their projection on how well current elementary students are performing on reading tests.&quot; Through the Brave Irene&#39;s Prison Lit Project, students will be enfranchised, offered the very best of human art and ingenuity, and the means (vocabulary; craft skills, terms, and techniques; texts; rhetorical analysis) to join conversations from which they would otherwise be excluded. These courses are reading-rich, and reading-first; students learn to read for craft,&nbsp;and are often read aloud to, which is often healing, too. Crucially: these classes are a joy. Students are motivated to learn by delight.

(Image: Watercolor painting of the yard at La Vista, the cover of a thank-you note, by a yearlong student in Brave Irene's courses there.) The Prison Lit Project offers inmates college-level craft-driven courses in the best our tradition has to offer. These courses introduce students to modes of writing, including, but not limited to: the Art of the Letter, Writing Picture Books for Children, Free Verse, Formal Poetry, the Short Story, the Novella, Rhetoric, the Comic Memoir, Reading the Harlem Renaissance, and the Novel. Reading comes first in this pedagogy, and students learn to write better by imitation of the astonishing and beautifully made works they read. Some classes will include a drawing component as well, as it is the founder's conviction that drawing and writing go hand in hand. Literacy is enfranchisement. As a country, we are losing literacy. This loss is particularly pronounced among people who are incarcerated. According to the National Literacy Institute, "To determine how many prison beds will be needed in future years, some states actually base part of their projection on how well current elementary students are performing on reading tests." Through the Brave Irene's Prison Lit Project, students will be enfranchised, offered the very best of human art and ingenuity, and the means (vocabulary; craft skills, terms, and techniques; texts; rhetorical analysis) to join conversations from which they would otherwise be excluded. These courses are reading-rich, and reading-first; students learn to read for craft, and are often read aloud to, which is often healing, too. Crucially: these classes are a joy. Students are motivated to learn by delight.

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Brave Irene's 1st Birthday Fundraiser

BRAVE IRENE'S SPELLING BEE

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