LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
- This event has passed.
Oregon Humanities presents Think & Drink with Journalists Les Zaitz, Inara Verzemnieks, and Kimberly A.C. Wilson
January 23, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$10 – $20Join Oregon Humanities for a conversation with Les Zaitz, Inara Verzemnieks, and Kimberly A.C. Wilson, all former Oregonian reporters and Pulitzer Prize finalists, in conversation with Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities.
• General Admission •
Price: $10
• Conversation Starter •
Price: $20
Ticket sales do not cover the full cost of producing this event. If you’re able, please consider helping us keep ticket prices low by paying the full cost of your seat. Oregon Humanities uses income from Think & Drink ticket sales to pay for venue rental and honoraria for our guests.
• No Cost •
This season, to make sure as many people as possible who want to attend are able to, we’re making a portion of tickets available at NO COST.
If you’re able to pay for a ticket, we ask that you do so to help keep this program accessible to all.
Think & Drink is an onstage conversation series that explores provocative ideas and fresh perspectives. The 2018–19 series features conversations with renowned writers about questions relating to journalism and justice.
Inara Verzemnieks , a former feature writer for the Oregonian who now teaches nonfictionwriting at the University of Iowa. In 2017, she published the memoir Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe . more >>>
Kimberly A.C. Wilson , a former investigative journalist at the Oregonian and the Baltimore Sun who is now director of communications at Meyer Memorial Trust. more >>>
Les Zaitz , a former Oregonian reporter and the current editor and publisher of the Malheur Enterprise and Salem Reporter . more >>>