A&E Odds 'n Ends

Artists, listen up: the Artists Health Insurance Resource Center is providing a free information session about getting and keeping health insurance as an artist. Topics will include finding affordable health insurance, getting health care when you're uninsured, government-subsidized programs, and understanding health care reform. The session - free and open to the public - will be held tonight at Gibson Guitar Showroom from 6:30-8:00 p.m.
November is National Novel Writing Month, and the Capitol Hill Branch of the Seattle Public Library is jumping on board with a few writing workshops open to the public. Coming up this weekend: "Flash Fiction: Jump In! Jump Out!" (November 13) and "Journal Writing" (November 14). For more information, call the Capitol Hill Branch at 206-684-4715. In other writing news, it's not too late to get started on your 50,000-word novel, with the help of NaNoWriMo. Visit Kim's post on the unique novel-writing program here.
SPL will also be pairing up with Intiman Theatre's Front Porch Theater to present “The Scarlet Letter” from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 at the Northgate Community Center. Community members will be "cast" for a forty-minute reading of an excert from the play, followed by a moderation discussion. Front Porch Theater is a series of informal dramatic readings and discussions at libraries and other locations in Seattle and King County. For more information call the Northgate Branch at 206-386-1980
On November 20, local literary darling 826 Seattle will launch their second publication this fall (the first being What to Read in the Rain, available in select Seattle hotels). The writing center's newest anthology, Adventures in Reading, contains student-written stories, poems, and essays composed during their 2010 summer workshops.