Students at the Schnitz Are Inspired by Barbara Kingsolver
On December 16th, Literary Arts and the Portland Arts & Lectures community welcomed Barbara Kingsolver to speak at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in the second installment of the 2012-2013 lecture series. The evening opened with Lauren Steele, pictured above, a sophomore at Jefferson High School Middle College for Advanced [...]
Madison HS Students will see Barbara Kingsolver
We snapped a picture of this display at the Madison HS library last Thursday. Students will get to see Barbara Kingsolver at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall this Friday, November 9. Thank you to all those who donated to our “Students at the Schnitz” fund to help students have this opportunity!
The City is a Classroom
For Stephen and Bianca, teachers at at Metropolitan Learning Center, the city is a classroom. They regularly take their students off-campus to see performances of all kinds, including the Arts & Lectures Series. When asked which part of the Students to the Schnitz program is more important, the free books or the free tickets to [...]
“Students to the Schnitz” hear Annie Proulx
Literary Arts kicked off its new “Students to the Schnitz” program by welcoming 65 students from Bianca Espinosa and Stephen Lambert’s Great Books class at Metropolitan Learning Center in Northwest Portland. Funded by the generosity of Literary Arts’ patrons, “Students to the Schnitz” provides complimentary books, transportation and tickets for Portland Public High School students [...]
Art Spiegelman on “How Pearls Are Formed”
In the car on the way to Roosevelt High School, Art Spiegelman made a prediction: he anticipated that he would be asked three questions about his graphic narrative Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. Why mice? Why comics? Why the Holocaust? Spiegelman jokes about the frequency of these questions, but clearly recognizes their importance. These questions are [...]
1,000 Students at the Schnitz for Wes Moore
What does providing tickets and transportation to nearly 1,000 students to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall look like? Well, this was a calm moment… On last Monday night, eight buses were lining the streets around the Schnitz for our event with Wes Moore, the author of this year’s Multnomah Country Library “Everybody Reads” selection, The [...]
Franklin students reflect on Tracy Kidder’s lecture
Kidder’s gift for crafting nonfiction narrative shone during his lecture at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, as he told the story of his writing life through the idiosyncrasies of his relationship with his editor, Richard Todd. After the show, WITS director Mary Rechner talked with Franklin students Simon and Kiah. Franklin students talk about Tracy [...]
Our Student Reading Onstage at the Schnitz
Reading your poetry in front of an audience is always a little nerve-wracking, so just imagine reading in front of an audience of 2,200 people in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall as an opening act for Bill Bryson. I took this photo from onstage before the audience arrived, and my camera didn’t even capture the [...]
Student happy to see Atwood and Le Guin well and full of wit
Natasha Anisimova, a student at Woodburn Arts and Communication Academy, stood before Margaret Atwood and Ursula Le Guin last Thursday to ask the first audience question. Her voice clear and without a touch of nerves, Tasha asked Atwood what drives her to take on such large-scale social issues in her fiction. Unfortunately we don’t have [...]
Students at the Schnitz!
Last night students from Wilson High School and Woodburn Arts and Communication Academy joined us at the Schnitz for the Atwood/Le Guin conversation. Mindy Brooks, a teacher at the Woodburn Academy, says that after attending the lectures, her students are more invested in the author and their work. Getting students to truly enjoy and connect [...]
