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Covid Update
We gotta hang in there! After months and months of social distancing and struggling to recognize our masked friends, we’re longing to return to regular activities. Based on the
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Announcing the 2021 Winner of the Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize
The Manzanita Writers’ Series announces the winner of the 2021 Neakahnie Mountain Poetry Prize Portland resident and regular visitor to Manzanita, Brittney Corrigan, won this year’s Poetry Prize held by
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Announcing Changing Faces and New Faces
Announcing Changing Faces and New Faces Changing Faces Please join the entire Hoffman Board of Directors in thanking three departing board members. Dedicated community members, we feel pretty emotional about
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Why I Volunteer
Why I Volunteer A message from board president, Mary Roberts When I retired from a succession of fairly stressful jobs, I thought I might relax: travel, garden, read, learn to
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Help us protect Oregon culture!
Toodle-oo 2020 Before we put you well behind us, Oregonians have until 12/31 to make matching donations to the Oregon Cultural Trust for an incredibly cool tax credit that helps
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Making the Hoffman Possible
Dear Community, You make the Hoffman Center for the Arts possible. Thank you donors and partners whose financial support is critical to sustaining us. You put the wind in
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Have You Seen Our Poetry Post?
Since August 2020, the Hoffman Writing Program has featured a monthly poem by a writer with strong connections to the North Oregon Coast on the back side of the Wonder
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Thank You For Your Feedback
Hello Hoffman Community! We’re writing to close the loop – to tell you what we heard during our summer consultations about the writing program and the subsequent online survey that
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2020 In A Creative Nutshell
Dear Community, In this year of Covid the Hoffman Wonder Garden became a sanctuary for all of Manzanita. The gratitude expressed was overwhelming. “We’re so glad you are here,
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Community Writes
The writer Margaret Atwood once noted that “A word after a word after a word is power.” As a new year beckons after so many months of untold loss, the