2004
Artist's Way Creative Clusters, Writer's Harvest (workshop facilitated by Joanne Sigmund)
2005
Artist's Way Creative Clusters, Artist's Way Open Studio (March-December), Summer Solstice
Labyrinth Walk
2006
Artist's Way Creative Clusters, Fabulous End-of-Summer August Art Swap, Artist's Way Guided
Intent (Safety, Identity, Power, Integrity, Possibility, Abundance, Connection, Strength),
Artist's Way Open Studio (every month), Dinnergrrls Holiday Bazaar, Don't Think! Paint!
("Resources & Barriers" workshop faciliated by Vicki Lind), Women's Business Showcase: Holiday
Spirit! If Not Now, When? Beginning Your Memoir
Today (workshop faciliated by Ann Rogers-Williams)
2007
Artist's Way Creative Clusters, Artist's Way Guided Intent
(Compassion, Self-Protection, Autonomy, Faith, Safety, Identity, Power,
Integrity,
Possibility &
Abundance),
Artist's Way Open Studio (every month), Discover Your
Calling (workshop facilitated by
ZigZag), the wildly successful Virtual Open Studio, Beautiful Truth: Creating Art Journals & Altered
Books (workshop facilitated by Melanie Sage), the First-Ever Edward Gorey
figBASH! (in collaboration w/ gorey details),
lecture at the Oregon Cartoon Institute series, Edible Book Tea, Layers of Memory &
Imagination (workshop facilitated by Serena Barton), Not
Just a Pretty Face (workshop facilitated by Serena Barton), Emergence opening (at The Art of Your
Life), the Spring Art Sale (at 100th Monkey), Don't Think! Paint! (Releasing/Receiving: workshop facilitated by Vicki Lind), Blue
Moon Blessings (supporter appreciation event), Down to Earth (facilitated
at the Mount Hood Arts Cabins), Making
Fairy Furniture (workshop facilitated by Bonnie Ward), Muse Talk: art, poetry &
dance performances at Fat Straw, "The Great Escape" and "Let Sleeping Gods lie" trailer
exhibited at PLATFORM International Animation Festival, Generate, Create,
Communicate: Using improvisation & play to unleash the story inside (workshop facilitated by Matt and Toni
Tabora-Roberts), "Let Sleeping Gods Lie" trailer premiere at the HP
Lovecraft Film Festival, Transforming the
Dark through Charcoal Alchemy (workshop facilitated by Mark Gundry), 4x4 exhibit curation at the All Oregon Calligrapher's Conference &
Can I Tell You
Something? participant, The Strong Silent Type: Creating Your Own Wordwear (workshop
facilitated by Gretchin Lair and Bridget Benton), Print Gocco Basics at the IPRC
2008
Artist's Way Guided Intent (Connection, Strength, Compassion, Self-Protection, Autonomy),
Artist's Way Open Studio (FREE collage night every month), Virtual Open Studio, Don't
Think! Paint! (Intentions), A Meeting of the Muses (art advocate
gathering), several Print Gocco Basics workshops at the IPRC, Secret Gardens (mosaic workshop facilitated by Shelley Lebel), Writing Your Way to Wellness (weekly art & health series facilitated
by Suzette Barakat), two Creative Business Basics classes at the IPRC, a reading at Portland's lovely Zenger Farm, a role in Portland Opera's Fidelio,
winning "Best Oregon Costume" at the IPRC "Figures of Speech" Text Ball, planning and
staffing the Trillium Artisans Annual Holiday Sale and Portland Development Commission Sale,
completing the poetry series "13 moons," fundraising for Trillium Artisans and the IPRC.
2009
The last ever Print Gocco Basics workshops at the IPRC,
Starting Your Creative Business at the IPRC, Sustaining
Your Creative Business at the IPRC, touring Portland
parks with the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival,
Creative Business Identity at SCRAP, Trillium Artisans annual retreat, Bridget Benton's Spiral Notebook Necklace workshop,
Morocco photo review & presentation at 23 Sandy Gallery
2010
Sven participated in the Fertile Ground Festival, which produced
his plays "The Buried Piano" and "The Astronaut and the Nude" at the Portland Center Stage Armory; he also performed in David
Holloway's "Egg" as the Voice of God.
2011
Sven wrote & produced "Death of the Party" as a staged reading at the Portland Center Stage Mezzanine as part of the Fertile Ground Festival; Gretchin read stage
directions. Sven created the Northwest Animation
Festival this year (and a smaller "Best of the Fest")!
2012
Sven created Portland
Animation Now! and produced 15 plays for the PDX
Playwrights in conjunction with the Fertile Ground Festival. Portland Animation Now! also ran in Eugene at the Bijou Theatre as part of the Cinema Pacific Festival. The main Northwest Animation Festival moved to the Hollywood this year and was followed by another "Best of the Fest" in September.
2013
Gretchin directed March for the Fertile Ground Festival. Sven's Northwest Animation Festival became the largest animation festival in the U.S. this year!
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