Events

Community and Continuing Education at PSR sponsors occasional lectures, workshops, and events.  More on events associated with TEL, Earl Lectures, Summer, or Intersession programs are listed in their respective areas.  Other events are listed below:

 


How the Light Gets In - Writing Workshops and a Reading with Pat Schneider
FREE
Saturday, April 27

RSVP for the reception and/or the evening program.  (workshops are filled)

CelebrateLight Book Cover!  A full day of celebration of the contributions of PSR alums Pat Schneider and her husband Peter - writers, teachers, theologians, and founders of Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA).  

To demonstrate the transformative power of the workshop method Pat created, AWA workshop leaders will host free writing workshops for the public.

Pat will read from her newly released book from Oxford Press, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice, and be interviewed on stage by Salon.com columnist Cary Tennis.

SCHEDULE
2:30-4:30pm   [sold out] Writing workshops with AWA West workshop leaders (Mudd Hall)
4:30-5:30pm   Break. Casual restaurants are 3 blocks away on Euclid Avenue.
5:30-6:30pm   Reception, Bade Museum & Doug Adams Gallery (Holbrook Hall)
7:00-9:00pm   On stage with Pat: book reading, interview, and honoring (Chapel)

Pegasus Books will be with us, so plan to pick up an autographed copy of How the Light Gets In while you're here.

All welcome; all parts of the day are free!

PARKING
Leave yourself no fewer than 15 minutes for parking.  Parking is notoriously difficult in this neighborhood.  Here are your best options:

  1. Early arrivals may park for free in the PSR parking lot & garage off Scenic Avenue between Scenic & Le Conte.
  2. Neighborhood street parking is free and unlimited on Saturdays
  3. There is a paid parking lot on Le Conte at the corner of Hearst Avenue

See http://www.psr.edu/visiting-campus for public transit and driving directions.  A map of campus highlights event locations.

RSVP for the reception and/or RSVP the evening program.  (workshops are filled)

All events are on the PSR campus at 1798 Scenic Ave. in Berkeley unless otherwise noted. Contact the office of Community & Continuing Education at 510/849-8202 or cce@psr.edu for details.