Purchase Tickets to Our 40th Summer Season

Join us this summer for a full set of mainstage performances, club events, vibrant readings and lectures, dances, and much more as we celebrate 40 years!

  • Centrum Board of Directors

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    President • Libby ReidPort TownsendEducator, arts patron Vice President • Cindy ThayerPort TownsendArts patron Secretary • Cynthia Stevens McBridePort TownsendArt dealer; arts patron Treasurer â...

  • Conference Readings & Lectures

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    Tickets for Centrum’s summer readings and performances go on sale May 1. During the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, a rich and diverse gathering of prose writers and poets will read fro...

  • Conference Class Descriptions

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  • Artistic Director Rebecca Brown

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    We are honored to have Rebecca Brown guiding literature programs at Centrum. City Lights published Rebecca Brown’s tenth book of prose, The Last Time I Saw You, in 2005. The End of Youth, (City...

  • 2007 Artist/Faculty

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    Learn how and why Artistic Director Rebecca Brown chose these writers. Read each writer’s workshop description. Eileen Myles (Special Guest)The New York Times has called Eileen Myles “a c...

  • Conference at a Glance

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    Read faculty bios, browse class descriptions. Engage creatively and critically with writers who work beyond the bounds of well-behaved American literature. Create new work. Rethink works-in-progress...