MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Middletown Art Center is hosting a writers workshop led by poet Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga on Sunday, Sept. 16, as part of the Restore project.

The class takes place from 1 to 5 p.m. at the center, located at 21456 Highway 175, in central Middletown.

The cost is $5. Pre-registration is required, as space is limited.

Adults and children age 12 and up of all levels of experience are invited to come to one or many monthly writers workshops that will be offered until May 2019.

Participants will have opportunity to submit writings and images created in Restore printmaking classes to be included in the Restore chapbook, which will be published in June.

Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga is an award-winning writer and arts educator. Poet Laureate Emeritus of Lake County (2012-2014), he has represented San Francisco for three years at the National Poetry Slam and served as Reno's Poetry Slam Master.

As activist and educator, Gonzaga received the Certificate of Honor and has had a day named after him by San Francisco's mayor and Board of Supervisors.

He has worked in several prominent programs including Youth Speaks, Writers Corps, California Poets in the Schools, Cazadero Performing Arts Family Camp, and Oakland Fine Arts Summer School program.

His own adult writers workshop, “Elyseum,” has fostered many talented writers who have become professional authors, journalists and poets laureate.

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