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Rose City Book & Paper Fair

DoubleTree Hotel 1000 NE Multonomah St, Portland

Cascade Booksellers Association is proud to announce the 13th annual Rose City Book & Paper Fair. This year we welcome more than 60 dealers of the best in used, rare and antiquarian books and ephemera to the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, Oregon the weekend of June 14 & 15. In addition to dealers from Oregon and Washington, we welcome dealers from California and other western states. From pulps to parchment, the simple to the sublime, a wide range of printed material will be on offer for the weekend to seasoned collectors, serious readers and curious newcomers. Admission is still just $3 at the door (good for both days), and proceeds benefit children’s literacy organizations. Complete information is available on our website at www.cascadebooksellers.com. Inquiries should…

$3

Monster Pageant 2: Return to Runway Island

East Portland Eagle Lodge 3256 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Monster Pageant stomps back to Portland on June 14th with MONSTER PAGEANT 2: RETURN TO RUNWAY ISLAND. The event will run from approximately 6:30 - 8:30pm and is ALL AGES. After the main event, there will be MONSTER KARAOKE from 9pm-12:30, which will be 21+. More info to come! TREMBLE as mighty mutants and glamorous giants compete in colossal challenges for the title of Portland’s Most Fashionable Monster! SHUDDER as a cardboard city is leveled before your very eyes! MARVEL as eerie aliens and colossal brutes take to the runway to strut their stuff! THRILL at the sound of live music played by Portland's Beastliest Band, the one and only Creature Party! Every creature will astound your senses, but only one will rule supreme! Monster…

$1 – $15

Best of PDX Summer Kick Off!

Cider Riot 807 NE Couch St, Portland

Hello Portland! It's warming up! Which means summer is coming! And we are going to celebrate with a selection of some of Portland’s finest local musicians and poets. There will be baked goods, a raffle, and a feature by the illimitable Igor Brezhnev. Come through Cider Riot and kick off the season with us!

Free

Young Adult Book Club (Hawthorne)

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

The Young Adult Book Club is a group of teens who meet monthly to talk about YA fiction. We’re fans of strong stories, diverse characters, and Rainbow Rowell (of course!). This month our group meets to discuss The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. Join us!

Free

Inkwater Authors Night – Marilynne Eichinger, Sharon Ann Rose, and Mark Chussil

Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland

Join us for our monthly series from Inkwater Press. This month, we hear from Marilynne Eichinger, Sharon Ann Rose, and Mark Chussil. Lives of Museum Junkies: The Story of America’s Hands-On Education Movement: Peer into the political and educational climate of the 1960s to discover factors that propelled the hands-on education movement into prominence. Follow the missteps and breakthroughs of Marilynne Eichinger and 11 other naive but dedicated museum directors, board volunteers, and National Science Foundation managers as they strove to change the way science was taught. Their oft humorous stories are revealed with candor and clarity. Responding to the latest research in learning and child development, they created engaging, self-teaching displays that impacted the landscape of 2,900 centers worldwide while serving 98 million people…

Free