Current Events are usually held at the Rose Room of City Hall.
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February Speaker
Rina Wakefield
Wednesday, February 19.2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, PDT
Our speaker will be Rina Wakefield.
Her subject will be “Intertwining the Oral Tradition with Spoken Word Poetry Performance.”
This meeting will be held in the Rose Room at Auburn City Hall.
The public is invited. The meeting is free to attend.
Rina Wakefield is a Spoken Word Poet. As a cultural and literary event producer, she facilitates and hosts poetry events for her community, including one that featured California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick. Rina has been a featured performer at numerous events, including the El Dorado County’s Poet Laureate program and Placerville’s International Human Rights Day celebration. She has been published in literary journals, including Lantern Magazine and Coalesce. She was also published in Arts and Culture El Dorado’s chapbook Poets of the Firehouse Sessions (2023). Currently, she is working on a prose poetry chapbook.
For more information: https://www.rinawrites.com/ 
March Speakers –
Susan M. Osborn &
Sarah Michie Pressler
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, PDT
Our speakers will be Susan M. Osborn and Sarah Michie Pressler. Their subject will be
“LETTUCE LAUGH: Adding humor to your writing.”
This meeting will be a workshop. Please bring pen and paper.
Laughing is good for the body and soul. We all turn to humor in our lives, as a natural part of communication. With humor, a writer lightens the mood of a story and the mood of the reader. Susan M. Osborn and Sarah Michie Pressler will provide examples and tips to bring humor to one’s writing. Participants will have an opportunity to work together in small groups.
This event will be held in the Rose Room at Auburn City Hall. The public is invited. The meeting is free to attend.
Susan M. Osborn, Ph.D., M.S.W., is the creative nonfiction author of “Awful Bosses Coloring Book.” It contains 26 limericks. She listens to David Sedaris’s podcast at night so she can go to sleep laughing. Susan is having fun writing a book about coincidences.
Sarah Michie Pressler is the author of “Jambo Mama” and “The Little Askari,” both about the thrills of growing up in Kenya. That experience along with decades of teaching elementary school and singing semi-professionally have given her miles of material when it comes to funny stuff. Sarah is writing a book about a favorite time in her life, childhood.
