<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:4.95pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">January 20, 2020</span></p>
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Announcement</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Outline Your Memoir:</span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A free 2-hour workshop at the Caetani Cultural Centre.</span></i></p>
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</span><em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">"I’ve had people confess that they’ve had a dream of writing
their memoirs for 10, even 20+ years, without starting,” shares </span></em><em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">transformational memoir-writing
instructor Janelle </span></em><em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Hardy.</span></em><em><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal"></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33)">“</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">It takes a lot of energy to suppress the thing you’re
longing to do!</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,30,33)">” </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Outline
Your Memoir is a useful and productive workshop. In the space of two hours
you’ll start to create a timeline of your life and identify themes and patterns
to work with. This isn’t your typical memoir-writing workshop however.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“I
get workshop participants to use ancient tales, like fairytales and myth, to help
with the outlining process. It’s fun and delightful, I promise, so if you want
to come, start thinking about a favourite, or particularly resonant – ancient
tale,” instructs Hardy.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“But
don’t worry if you can’t think of one, you can still do the workshop,” she
reassures.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In
this two-hour workshop you’ll go from not knowing where to start and not
knowing what parts of your life you want to write about, to having a loose
outline of your memoir, insight into the themes you’d like to explore, your lifestory
timeline started and enthusiasm!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Register for your free
spot in the workshop at </span><a href="http://www.caetani.org" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">www.caetani.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> and then come to </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Caetani Cultural Centre’s Studio Gallery on Saturday
January 25<sup>th</sup>, 10am.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">For those interested in getting their writing
and creative work more visible, you can also sign up for Hardy’s DIY Marketing
workshop, same day, in the afternoon. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">For more information
please visit our website </span><a href="https://www.caetani.org" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://www.caetani.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> or contact the Caetani Centre at
250-275-1525.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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