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Polly Diamond Reading with Alice Kulpers!

Green Bean Books 1600 NE Alberta Street, Portland

Author Alice Kulpers reads from her new beginning chapter book. Polly Diamond is back with her magic book, Spell, for another adventure. This time Polly is tackling the School Fair!

Free

DWP 2019: Magnetic North Open House

Magnetic North 2021 SE Belmont St, Portland

Oh heck yeah!!! It’s @designweekpdx We are having a totally badass #openhouse at the studio, this Thursday from 4-9! It’s gonna be #RAAAAAAAD!!!!!!! Beers by @montuckycoldsnacks

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Ooligan Press Presents: The Gifts We Keep Launch Party!

Rogue Ales & Spirits - Rogue Hall 1717 SW Park Ave, Portland

Join us at Rogue Hall to celebrate the launch of The Gifts We Keep by Katie Grindeland! Enjoy snacks and appetizers, excellent local beers on tap, participate in fun activities including free tarot readings, and enter for the chance to win raffle prizes! Katie Grindeland will be reading from her debut novel, The Gifts We Keep. Don't miss your chance for early release copies available for purchase and signing! We're gonna have a blast! Can't wait to see you there!

Free

DWP 2019: Create for a Cause

WE Communications 1125 NW Couch Street Suite 500, Portland

Do you envision a world where cause-driven brands share the same space in people’s hearts as big consumer brands? Want to experience how communications, design, and marketing can work in harmony to drive purpose and positive change? Join WE Communications and fellow members of the Portland design community for a rollicking, creative challenge – a group exercise that draws on your skills to design a campaign for one of Portland’s most beloved causes: Children’s Book Bank. Participants will be split into groups of five and given an hour to develop a campaign concept and assets to help raise awareness for Children’s Book Bank. WE staff will provide a brief and roving guidance throughout the session. Participation in the challenge is optional, attendees are invited to…

Free

DWP 2019: Beacon Quarterly Presents: No. 08 Nail Biter

220 Salon 213 SW Ash St, Portland

Crib Design House and 220 Salon are co-hosting the celebration of Beacon's third volume. The event will be a curated experience that engages all levels of creativity themed to compliment the release of No. 08 Nail Biter. Guests will enjoy food, drinks, music, dancing, networking, a Polaroid photo booth installation, nail art, installations and giveaways! Hard copies of the magazine will be available for purchase as well as pre-sale specials. RSVP at our Facebook event: Here MORE ABOUT THE EVENT 6-10p Installations by: Ellie Chatman Jacque Fitzgerald + Rover Banes from The Nuclear Sequence MAED Studio + Indo Foxworth Lisa Chiem: mailman's nails man (Sponsored by: Bone Velvet) 6-8p TRUST THE PROCESS: A music industry panel Featuring @itsfountainebro and Special guest Gwizski founder of Omega…

$15

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Claudia Castro Luna

Vancouver Community Library 901 C St, Vancouver

Printed Matter Vancouver, Clark County Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Morgan, Clark County Arts Commission, and ArtsWA Present Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna Hosted by Christopher Luna and Toni Lumbrazo Luna of Printed Matter Vancouver At a special time and location 6:30-8:30 pm Thursday, April 11, 2019 Columbia Room Vancouver Community Library 901 C Street Vancouver, WA 98660 Open mic sign up begins at 6:00 and closes at 6:30 FREE LGBTQ+ FRIENDLY, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004 Claudia Castro Luna will be signing books at Niche Wine Bar, 1013 Main Street (nichewinebar.com) from 5-6 pm. Spend happy hour with the Poet Laureate. There will also be an after party at Niche Wine Bar at 8:30 pm. Biographical information…

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Slamlandia April Literary Arts Show ft. Kate Leddy

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

Join us on APRIL 11TH for our second Thursday Poetry Open Mic and Slam! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:30 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 7:00 PM Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. No door admission. We will have a spotlight performance from the incredible Kate Leddy! Kate Leddy is a writer and mental health activist from Portland Oregon. She was born and raised in New York and still has strong opinions about bagels. Kate represented Portland at the 2018 Individual World Poetry Slam as well as the 2018 National Poetry Slam. Her first chapbook…

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Jeff Alworth presents The Widmer Way

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author and beer guru Jeff Alworth to read from The Widmer Way: How Two Brothers Led Portland's Craft Beer Revolution. The Widmer Way chronicles Kurt and Rob Widmer's journey from humble homebrewers to craft beer pioneers and purveyors of the iconic Widmer Brothers Hefeweizen. Alworth also dives deep into Portland's history, setting the scene for Widmer's rise in the city now known for its exquisite beer. Kurt and Rob Widmer have a deep affection for the city that fostered their success, providing sports team sponsorships, support for up-and-coming brewers, and hundreds of jobs for their community. The Widmer Way emphasizes this special relationship with a story that will resonate with Portland's legion of beer aficionados as it illustrates how Portland became…

Free

Reema Zaman

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland
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Chameleon – Tasche Laine

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland

Recently divorced Tara Spencer is a devoted single mom to her eleven-year-old daughter and is still healing from her failed marriage of fourteen years. As she embarks on an exciting new career, the last thing she needs is a man in her life. Then she meets the alluring Dr. Geoffrey Jensen, a bedazzling psychotherapist who isn’t what he seems. Adept at manipulation, Geoffrey toys with Tara’s mind, compelling her to change for him. When she discovers his shocking secret, will she find the courage to get out in time or will it be too late? Tasche Laine has worked as a journalist, newspaper columnist, teacher, and studio teacher to child actors in Hollywood. She has authored two novels: the 2018 International Book Award winner for…

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Deadly Diversions Book Group

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

This month our group meets to discuss Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series. Join us!

Free

StacyPlays Booksigning

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

YouTube superstar StacyPlays is back with the second installment in her Minecraft-inspired tween fantasy adventure series. In Escape to the Mesa (Wild Rescuers #2) (HarperCollins), Stacy would do anything to protect the Taiga where she lives with her pack of intelligent wolves. But when humans start to fill the forest, their only choice is escaping to a place no Arctic wolf has gone before: the desert. Please note: This event is a booksigning only. A purchase of StacyPlays’s Escape to the Mesa (Wild Rescuers #2) is required to join the signing line.

Free

For Colored Folks

Ruby Receptionists 805 SW Broadway, Portland

WHAT IT IS: A book club geared to cultivating joy and empowerment for people of color. The book lists will include non-fiction written by POCs and some fiction as well. Donations are not required to attend, but if you'd like to donate to contribute to snacks and beverages that we bring feel free to Cash app me at $BriaunaMcKizzie or venmo me at brigirl ABOUT THE SPACE: The meetings will be held at my job, Ruby Receptionists, which is located on the 9th floor of the Fox Tower. Free parking on the street after 7:00 PM. It's also located like 5-7 minutes from the max. Carpooling would be great, too. I live on the west side and would be happy to have other West siders…

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Austin Kleon

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

In Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet. Keep Going (Workman) shows you how to stay true to and focused on your own creative vision when the world seems out of control. In 10 illustrated, inspiring chapters, Kleon offers advice, stories, and anecdotes that teach you how to persist in doing work that helps make a world worth living in.

Free

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by 24/7 data productivity… doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in How to Do Nothing (Melville House), a field guide to doing nothing. Far from the anti-technology screed or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism.

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