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Start: 2:00 pm
Read and discuss feminism through classic and contemporary literature, historical work, and essay collections. Learn about the variety of thought around feminist work no matter your familiarity or political persuasion.
Open
to anyone that wants to explore
feminism.
Meet
with Jennifer the LAST SUNDAY
of
every month at 2pm
(Authors do
not usually attend VB Reads)
–The Handmaid’s Tale
by
Margaret Atwood
In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and
social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic
staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or
property and are completely dependent upon men. Funny, unexpected, horrifying,
and altogether convincing, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once scathing
satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
Start: 4:00 pm
Beginning in 1910 as a small competition among working cowboys from nearby ranches and Native American tribes, The Pendleton Round-Up has grown into one of North America’s most popular rodeos, attracting up to 50,000 visitors. Over 500 photographs showcase the drama and traditions that make this classic rodeo unique, including the fact that Pendleton is the only rodeo with Native American participation every year since its inception. Pendleton has clung to its traditions: a hard grass field, long wooden chutes, thousands cheering from wooden bleachers in the hot August sun of Eastern Oregon. No electronic scoreboards or NASCAR-style advertising mar this competition, even today. In this comprehensive history, the full story of the Round-Up is told and illustrated in all its glory.
Mike Bales has been a newspaper writer, reporter, and editor for over twenty-five years, most recently for the Portland Oregonian . Ann Terry Hill, contributes regularly to American Cowboy, True West, and Cowboys & Indians magazines, and is also a former Round-Up princess and queen.
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2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
