<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Sunday, March 8th. 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Occidental Center for the Arts Studio: A </span></b><b>Storytelling Workshop with Jessica Morell, and Suze Pringle Cohan. </b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll;">Introductory class to learn about narrative, truth telling, what storytelling isn’t and get a chance to start creating your Moth-style story for our ongoing </span><strong><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">7minutesMax</span></strong><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll;"> events, second Fridays (7-8PM) of </span>the month in the OCA lobby. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll;">Workshop registration is $75, ($65</span><span class="ydp4a855a89Heading1Char" style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; color: rgb(15, 71, 97);"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="ydp4a855a89Heading1Char" style="font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; color: rgb(15, 71, 97);"><i><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">for OCA members). </span></i></span><em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-style: normal;">BYOL</span></em><em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">. </span></em><em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-style: normal;">W</span></em><em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">orkshop limited to 20 people - register early at <a href="http://occidentalcenterforthearts.org/">occidentalcenterforthearts.org</a>. </span></em>3850 Doris Murphy Way, Occidental, CA. OCA’s <span style="color: rgb(19, 40, 87);">facilities are accessible to</span>people with disabilities. For more info: <a href="http://occidentalcenterforthearts.org/">occidentalcenterforthearts.org</a>.</div><p class="ydp4a855a89MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; background-image: none; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll;"> </span></p><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> <b style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Sunday, March 8<sup>th</sup>, 4-5:30PM Occidental Center for the Arts Lobby. Jazzmyn Inisis</b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> will read from her book, </span><b style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><i>Shah Razad and the Djins Who Loved Her</i></b><i style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">. </i><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Jazzmyn is a local writer who was deeply influenced living in the middle east as a child of a military father stationed there in the 1950’s. Join us for an afternoon of mystery and storytelling with Jazzmyn,</span><i style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">accompanied by middle eastern food and fine wines available for purchase. Settle in and be transported...Free admission, all donations happily accepted. This is a reading only by the author, no books available for sale. OCA: 3850 Doris Murphy Way, Occidental, CA. OCA’s </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(19, 40, 87);">facilities are accessible to</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> people with disabilities. For more info: <a href="http://occidentalcenterforthearts.org/">occidentalcenterforthearts.org</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p class="ydp6312b9b3MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Sunday, April 12th, 3-5PM. Occidental Center for the Arts Literary Series</b>, in celebration of <b>National Poetry Month,</b> presents <b>West County Spring</b>, featuring five well-known and loved West County poet friends. William Greenwood, Shawna Swetech, Raphael Block, Tamsin Smith and Larry Robinson will read from their recent collections. with musical accompaniment by David Field. Readings, Q&A, book sales and signing. This is a free event, all donations happily accepted. Refreshments for sale. OCA: 3850 Doris Murphy Way, Occidental, CA. OCA’s <span style="color: rgb(19, 40, 87);">facilities are accessible to</span> people with disabilities. For more info: <a href="http://occidentalcenterforthearts.org/">occidentalcenterforthearts.org</a></p></div></body></html>