Nostos: The Long Way Home - Workshop.

Nostos: The Long Way Home - Workshop

The Odyssey is one of the most iconic of Western stories. We look at what the story has to say about leaving home, coming home, and being a migrant in the world. What does that longing in our stories say about our own longing? Who is a migrant, a refugee, or a native? Our stories root us to the ground and allow us to travel over great distances. How do we define home?

Can we find stories in the ground beneath our feet that welcomes newcomers and honors the ancestors?

Over the course of the five sessions we dive deep into the story of the Odyssey through oral storytelling and book discussions. We will look at two other books with a similar theme: Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin and Martín and Meditations on the South Valley by Jimmy Santiago Baca.

A year long course with five immersive, intensive weekends.

This course connects one’s innate creative spark with deep-time storytelling and straightforward drawing exercises. Oral storytelling, themed readings, and image making exercises are braided together into each session.

This course is for teachers, writers, cartoonists, artists, or people interested in unlocking their visual storyteller. This is not about technical prowess, but storytelling and expression. The drawing exercises do not require drawing skill or previous training. Participants come away having created their own story based in image and text; gaining tools for telling stories with pictures and thinking in mythic time.

Each weekend begins with a Friday night lecture.

Saturday is a full day of storytelling, drawing exercises and workshops.

Sunday is work time and presentations.

Building Five, NW Marine Artworks,

2516 NW 29th Ave., Portland, OR 97210