BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Laura E. Garrard - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lauraegarrard.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Laura E. Garrard
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20260308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20261101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20270314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20271107T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260713T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260713T213000
DTSTAMP:20260630T211406Z
CREATED:20260330T214727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260630T211406Z
UID:1354-1783967400-1783978200@lauraegarrard.com
SUMMARY:Creative Colloquy Literary & Open Mic\, Featured Reader in July CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:The New Frontier Lounge in Tacoma\, Washington.\nGarrard will no longer be a featured reader on July 13 due to personal obligations that day. Her next event is July 25 in Seattle: “Poems & Pours” at Nomadic Wine Bar & Restaurant. \nLaura E. Garrard will be a featured reader on this night to celebrate her chapbook release! \nBring your short stories\, poems\, and essays to share during the open mic portion. Please note\, open mic allows performers 5 minutes. This time limit is firm to allow all readers an opportunity to share. \nCC is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike. \nThis program is supported in part by Tacoma Creates\, a program of the City of Tacoma. \n 
URL:https://lauraegarrard.com/event/creative-colloquy-literary-open-mic-featured-reader-in-july/
LOCATION:The New Frontier Lounge\, 301 E 25th St.\, Tacoma\, WA\, 98421\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Featured Author Event,Open Mic Opportunity,Poetry Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lauraegarrard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Creative-Colloquy-Logo-1.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Creative Colloquy":MAILTO:jackie.d.fender@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260513T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T210812Z
CREATED:20260422T210539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T210812Z
UID:1497-1778695200-1778702400@lauraegarrard.com
SUMMARY:C and P Coffee PoetryBridge Reading
DESCRIPTION:I have the honor of reading as a featured poet with T. Clear and Mary Crane\, followed by a community Open Mic after a short break at 7 p.m. \nPoetryBridgeTimes.Net: Our mission is to promote the best of poetry and storytelling in West Seattle. Not best as in better than\, but best as in authentic self-expression\, in person\, here and now. Best* that in the telling demonstrates diverse forms of bravery\, expressiveness\, sincerity and truthfulness. \n \n 
URL:https://lauraegarrard.com/event/c-and-p-coffee-poetrybridge-reading/
LOCATION:C and P Coffee\, 5612 California Ave SW\, Seattle\, WA\, 98136
CATEGORIES:Featured Author Event,Open Mic Opportunity,Poetry Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Leopoldo Seguel":MAILTO:infopoetrybridge@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260503T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T212600Z
CREATED:20260317T201623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T212600Z
UID:1293-1777809600-1777815000@lauraegarrard.com
SUMMARY:Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Feature Reader & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join this popular international online event hosted by Sandra Yannone! To view and/or participate you must register in advance through Zoom and then receive the Join the Meeting Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvce6gpz0sGN2xjVakkXh6GNCTLhKUnste \nThis event features published authors and their books at the start  of the program\, then opens up slots for 1-poem readings in an Open Mic through a First Come\, First Serve sign up. \nThere will be a theme of “Mind\,” which may refer to mindfulness\, present-mindedness\, madness\, or whatever fits! My paired featured reader is Nathan Spoon.
URL:https://lauraegarrard.com/event/cultivating-voices-live-poetry-feature-reader-open-mic/
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Featured Author Event,Open Mic Opportunity,Poetry Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Kim Port Parsons":MAILTO:kimportsparsons@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T213000
DTSTAMP:20251202T192252Z
CREATED:20251123T005651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T192252Z
UID:809-1768847400-1768858200@lauraegarrard.com
SUMMARY:Creative Colloquy Literary & Open Mic\, Featured Reader
DESCRIPTION:I will be a featured reader on this night. \nBring your short stories\, poems\, and essays to share during the open mic portion. Please note\, open mic allows performers 5 minutes. This time limit is firm to allow all readers an opportunity to share. \nCC is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike. \nThis program is supported in part by Tacoma Creates\, a program of the City of Tacoma.
URL:https://lauraegarrard.com/event/creative-colloquy-literary-open-mic/
LOCATION:The New Frontier Lounge\, 301 E 25th St.\, Tacoma\, WA\, 98421\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Author Event,Open Mic Opportunity
ORGANIZER;CN="Creative Colloquy":MAILTO:jackie.d.fender@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T150000
DTSTAMP:20251115T230911Z
CREATED:20251115T230851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251115T230911Z
UID:749-1763042400-1763046000@lauraegarrard.com
SUMMARY:Blue Whole Gallery OlyPen Authors Reading\, Thankfulness
DESCRIPTION:Olympic Peninsula Authors partners with Blue Whole Gallery co-op every second Wednesday for an advanced signed-up Open Mic. This month’s theme is Thankfulness\, prose and poetry. \nI will read three poems\, “Through Their Eyes\, I See Their Little Girl\,” “Joy is disguised” (recently accepted by The Journal of Expressive Writing)\, and “Sailing in the Sunshine” (published in Potpourri: Poetry\, Prose & Pictures\, 2023\, and soon in my forthcoming chapbook\, Paddling the Sweet Spot Between Life and Death).
URL:https://lauraegarrard.com/event/blue-whole-gallery-olypen-authors-reading/
LOCATION:Blue Whole Gallery\, 129 W Washington St\, Sequim\, WA\, 98382\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic Opportunity,Poetry Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Heidi Hansen":MAILTO:olypenauthors@olypen.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T170000
DTSTAMP:20251115T225648Z
CREATED:20251115T225648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251115T225648Z
UID:742-1761404400-1761411600@lauraegarrard.com
SUMMARY:Kaleidoscope Open Mic\, "Hauntings"
DESCRIPTION:Port Townsend’s premiere bimonthly open mic\, Kaleidoscope\, hosted by novelist Anna Quinn\, will greet Halloween with haunting poems and prose. The featured author this time will be Judy Borenin\, who will read from her chapbook\, Evidence of the Evermore.  She is also widely published in journals. \nI will read a longform poem about a “haunting” ex-boyfriend who has passed away\, “The Earth Has Embraced a Son of East Coast Swing\, An Elegy.” \nWhen you enter the building\, place your name in the hat to be drawn at random to read.
URL:https://lauraegarrard.com/event/kaleidoscope-open-mic-hauntings/
LOCATION:Port Townsend Friends Meeting House\, 1841 Sheridan St.\, Port Townsend\, WA\, 98368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic Opportunity,Poetry Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Anna Quinn":MAILTO:annamquinn@yahoo.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR