West Egg Literati is looking forward to the following events this semester. Mark your calendars and plan on joining us!

November 14 Collage Afternoon with Deborah Keenan

Where: GLS House (1500 Englewood Ave.)

When: 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

A West Egg crafting tradition. DK's note about the event:

Please bring the scissors you most love, that let you be the most accurate with your cutting, a glue stick, any preferred backings to anchor your images, and please start collecting now for at least a couple of visions for the afternoon. I'd like you to find images that are small enough that they feel private to you--I want all of us to work on collages that are personal, almost enclosed in our own reveries about our own imagined and real life and spirit. Then I'd like you to also gather images that feel bold, generic, large (in some way, size or meaning)so that you can, the same afternoon, be working toward a collage that could become a public work of art by 4 p.m. that day. I'd also like you to do some thinking and writing about color. Please bring in three written portraits of three different colors that you are willing to share with our group. If you would like to bring something calm and non-messy to eat and drink and to share, that would be great. We will have a table set up for food and drinks to keep us going through the afternoon.

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Past Events

White Elephant Reading
Manor Main Lounge was a challenge to find but worth it. Ugly sweaters and socks were had by most all the semester survivors who took up the challenge.

Gatsby Lawn Party
This happens every summer before the fall semester starts.  It’s a great way to meet up with new students, classmates, and friends.  Food, fellowship, and free giveaways!  (There’s also croquet.)  See you next year.

West Egg Writing Groups
We meet once a month over the summer to encourage each other to keep making beautiful work.  All kinds of writing is welcome.  If you’re interested, send us an email.

First Round on West Egg
Once a semester or so, we meet up.  We hang out, and if anyone has questions or things they want to discuss, we talk about them.  It’s casual, and we had a blast at the first one.  Stay tuned for the next round in January.

It's A Very West Egg Costume Party
(rock, paper, scissors release party)
Costume party, release party, reading: a triple helping of awesome.  Stay tuned next year to help us celebrate next year’s edition.

Autumn Bonfire and Reading

“One must have a mind of winter (or not)”
Collage Workshop with Deborah Keenan
Always incredible. We try to have one every semester. It’s a great chance to see arts collide and produce beautiful and unexpected results.

West Egg + MFAC Reading and Reception

A chance to meet students from Hamline's low-residency MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults (MFAC) program following a reading by renowned MFAC faculty members.