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New Partnership with Newspace Center for Photography

2015_Fall_Newspace (800x788)Newspace Center for Photography is a multidimensional photography resource center and community hub for students, working artists, professional photographers, educators, and photo-enthusiasts of all types. Through a full roster of course offerings, gallery exhibits, digital lab, darkroom, and lighting studio access, artists’ lectures, portfolio reviews, an artist residency, and more, Newspace makes a wide spectrum of enriching photographic opportunities available to the Portland Metro communities.

The Center’s broad curriculum is made up of beginning, intermediate, and advanced classes. From foundational, technical classes to classes on creative studio lighting, darkroom and alternative processes, design and digital applications, personalized training, and creative classes for the fine-artist, Newspace has an evolving variety of educational programming to choose from.

The Newspace gallery mounts 12 exhibits annually. Artists are showcased in solo or two-person shows with the occasional group show or juried exhibition. Curatorial emphasis is placed on modern, fine-art and documentary photography and has included the work of emerging as well as established artists. The gallery is free and open to the public.

In addition to regular programming, Newspace fills a particular niche in supporting the regional nonprofit community by partnering with other organizations to enhance the programming goals of all institutions involved. Newspace has partnered with Washington School for the Deaf, Saturday Academy, Portland Community College, as well as Pablove Shutterbugs – a nonprofit that teaches children living with cancer to develop their creative voice through the art of photography.

facade8Newspace sees Portland Pedal Power as an undeniable partner within the PDX community. We both strive to support and collaborate with organizations that are locally owned and sustainably minded. We engage and challenge the community to think differently – whether creatively through art and photography or holistically through sustainability and green practices. Newspace is proud to be aligned with Portland Pedal Power and encourage all of our members, followers, students, and donors to help improve Portland through healthy and holistic practices. Be Creative! Make Photographs! Ride a Bike!

(Guest post from Newspace)


Another Visit to the Wellspring School

Wellspring SchoolAre you trying to get healthy? Are you a professional looking for some classes to build on your knowledge? Our friends at the Wellspring School for Healing Arts have a few classes they want you to know about.

First up is Inner Wisdom: Body-Centered Emotional Healing. Science and experience have shown that emotions affect our physical bodies. It might be the headache that springs up in response to stress or lump that arises in your throat when you’re choking back tears. In this experiential workshop, you will learn how to not only connect with where you are holding emotions in your body, but also how to listen to your body’s innate wisdom about how to permanently shift the pattern.

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Guest Blog: Living City & Handmade Gardens

Garden 1This is a guest blog written by Rachel Freifelder of Living City and Handmade Gardens. We connected with Rachel through Portland Society, a nonprofit business alliance of professional women who are passionate about bicycling in Portland.

It is mid-January and the weather has been truly wintry. The memories of the mild fall, the late frost-date, fade so quickly when freezing fog slicks the streets and fingertips burn with cold! The sunshine is, of course, a welcome tradeoff for the dip in temperatures. I linger in it this afternoon, admiring the thin, yellow light slanting over the brave, sturdy vegetables still thriving in the garden.

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The Wellspring School for Healing Arts

In between making lunch and dinner deliveries from your favorite restaurants in Portland, PPP riders Fitz, Colin, Alex and Brook have been distributing flyers all over town for The Wellspring School for Healing Arts. You may be asking yourself, “What is The Wellspring School, and what do they do?” Well, we’re glad you asked!

Wellspring School 1The Wellspring School for Healing Arts recently moved to a new amazing location at 2440 NE MLK Blvd Portland OR, 97212. The school offers comprehensive programs and classes in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Amma Therapy (a form of Asian Bodywork), nutrition, movement arts and a host of community classes that focus on wholistic healthcare and wellbeing.

Continue reading for more information about the upcoming Amma Therapy Program (starting February 2013), and the school’s vast Community Class Schedule.

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