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  • Date: November 10
  • Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm PT
  • Format: In Person
  • Location: Lapis Theater
    1634 11th Ave.

Coming Home to Hugo: A Housewarming for the Future

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Please scroll to the bottom of this page to RSVP for this Open House event. 

Join us for our community celebration on November 10 from 2–6 pm as we dive into the future of storytelling! Whether you’ve been with Hugo House for a while or are looking for a new home, we’d love to see you!  

This event is free and open to all. Doors open at 1:30 pm.

  • ‘Coming Home to Hugo’ Chapbook: Grab your free copy of the 2024 Hugo House chapbook, which showcases writing from our talented community. (Available only during the Coming Home to Hugo event.) 
  • Live Performances: Experience the work of incredible artists Emma McVeigh, Shelby Natasha, and Iz White. 
  • Writing Workshops: Write a technology poem, collaboratively craft a group play, and stretch the bounds of your creativity.  
  • Open Mic: Share your work on stage with the warm support of the Hugo House community!

We can’t wait to welcome you home to Hugo House!

Isadore White

Emma McVeigh

Quetzalli Writes

Quetzalli Writes

she/her

Quetzalli brings over a decade of tech and writing expertise. Dedicated to creating educational content that demystifies technology, she's also the published author of "Docs-as-Ecosystem: The Community Approach to Engineering Documentation."

Shelby Natasha

Shelby Natasha

Shelby Natasha is a songwriter and music producer in Seattle, Washington. Growing up between China and the Pacific Northwest, her music is heavily influenced by both cultures, landing in a space between Alt R&B and Chinese folk music.

Miriam Tobin

Miriam Tobin

she|her

Miriam BC Tobin (she|her) is a Seattle-based playwright, theatre artist, and writing instructor. She has performed on stages across the US and Europe and has taught drama to youth in Seattle, NYC, Denver, and on a farm in the Czech Republic. She founded MBCT; Modern But Classical Theatre in NYC to de- and re-construct classic plays into highly physical adaptations. Her play The War of Women received a roundtable reading at The Lark and several of her plays premiered at Goddard College’s Ten-Minute Play festival. Honors & awards include a Hedgebrook residency, PEN Writing Scholarship, Newington-Cropsey Fellowship, the London Dramatic Academy Fellowship, and she was a Pipeline Theatre PlayLab semi-finalist. Miriam was the fall 2020 Editor-in-Chief of The Pitkin Review and is currently a dramatic writing editor with The Clockhouse. Her work appears in multiple issues of The Pitkin and Smith & Kraus. Miriam also runs SCRiB LAB, a writing organization aimed at creating community through experimentation.

Describe your teaching style.

I'm all about interaction, collaboration, and discussion. My teaching style is very open, and I welcome all ideas and questions in the classroom. Each class is a mixture of different learning styles, including presented lessons, reading and writing exercises, and open discussions.

Carolyne Wright

Carolyne Wright

she / her

Carolyne Wright’s new book is Masquerade, a memoir in poetry (Lost Horse Press, 2021). Previous books include This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse, 2017), whose title poem won a Pushcart Prize and also appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009; and the anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse, 2015), which received ten Pushcart Prize nominations. Carolyne has also received NEA and 4Culture grants, and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award. Visit https://carolynewright.wordpress.com for more information.

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke