What to do when you encounter a stumper? Rebecca Demarest offers helpful tips for tackling creative problems – and not just writers’ block! Rebecca is an award-winning author, book designer, coach, and writing instructor practiced at working with adults and kids, including in a homeschool environment. Her primary areas of expertise revolves around speculative fiction, with practice in theater, historical fiction, mystery writing, and game writing. She enjoys individual coaching, manuscript evaluation, and teaching workshops and classes for a wide range of topics for adults and kids and has worked as an instructor and course designer with organizations such as the Bureau of Fearless Ideas in Seattle, Clarion West, DigiPen, and the Museum of Popular Culture.
Date: 11-21-2023
Time: 3-4pm
Location: Room 4202 (the library)
Learn to use brush calligraphy lettering combined with holiday themes and flourishes to create beautiful cards, table place cards, and gifts. For beginning and returning students 15+ , and younger students are welcome with an adult. All supplies included and you will leave with cards and your own calligraphic brush pen!
Dates: Sat. 11/4 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Room 1515
Fee: $59.00 – All supplies included!
Instructor: Kathy Barker
In this class participants will learn techniques for maintaining their stance and footing, escaping from several different grabs, and working as a team with their friends and allies. We will be doing physical drills and practicing movements to help maintain and regain physical autonomy, as well as running through verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to make ourselves and those around us safer and more capable in self-defense situations.
Kiyoshi is a martial artist of 19 years with a passion for bringing effective self defense to diverse communities. Kiyoshi has trained extensively in both armed and unarmed styles such as Capoeira, Kali/Eskrima, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, and anything else they could get their hands on. Kiyoshi loves bringing the empowerment of self-defense to everyone who needs it.
Charlie has been teaching deescalation and principles of combat arts since 2021. In approaching this work, he centers consent, joy, and trust-building. He is constantly learning from the people he teaches, and realizes that “defense” is incredibly subjective and contextual. Each of you has survived so much already, and only you know what will work for you! As an instructor, Charlie hopes to give you tools to hone your survival skills, build your confidence and self-worth, deepen your relationship to yourself and others, and be even more badass than you ever thought possible.
The platform designed by Wiki Education allows students to create Wikipedia accounts they can use forever, update/add to Wikipedia articles of their choosing, give an analytics overview of our students’ contributions.
IE and Gender Equity Center are collaborating with ICHS on hosting two workshops for all students. The first workshop is coming next Tuesday on campus. Please see the blurb below and the graphic as attached.
International Community Health Services (ICHS) healthcare providers are offering two free workshops for Shoreline students on our campus this spring quarter!
Dates: April 25, 2023 and May 2, 2023
Time: Tuesdays, 12:30-2:00 PM
Location: PUB 9208 Quiet Dining Room
Topics:
-How to access healthcare
-Common medications you can get at a drug store
-Stress Management
-Safe sex and healthy relationships, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Infections
-Inclusive of nonheteronormative/nonbinary relationships
Staff from International Education Department and Gender Equity Center will also be there to answer your questions.
You can attend in person at Room 4202 in the library or via the Zoom link.
This is the first meeting of the student UX team that will be helping with the library’s website redesign. Participation can be anything from tidying excel spreadsheets (full of collected data), interviewing students to get feedback, or setting up laptops at the UX Cafe.
Want to start budgeting smarter? Looking to establish or improve your credit? Attend the upcoming Managing Money 101 workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 4pm in the 7000 Great Room. Come learn from an expert at American Financial Solutions and find out how you can be a better manager of your personal money. Great resources and free food available for all students!
Are you transferring to another college in the next year? Do you have questions about the process or need help with your application? Attend an upcoming Transfer Application Workshop on Weds. 1/25 from 4-6pm in the PUB Main Dining Room (9215). Staff and advisors will be on hand to talk with you through the process and provide feedback on resumes, essays, etc. If you have any questions, e-mail smusnicki@shoreline.edu.
