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Submission Deadline: Caldera Community Residency

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland

This two-week December residency provides an opportunity for Camp Caldera staff, teaching artists, artists in residence, and year-round staff to revisit the community and warmth that is Caldera while enjoying time and space to work on personal projects and enjoy the outdoors. 2019 Dates: December 7–21, 2019. All residents must arrive on December 7 between noon and 5 p.m. and stay a minimum of one week (departing Dec 14) or maximum of two weeks (departing Dec 21 by 11 a.m.). Caldera provides a welcome dinner for all residents on Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. Residents will provide their own meals, materials, and transportation. This residency is open to all past and current Camp Caldera staff, teaching artists, artists in residence, and current year-round staff. This…

$50 – $200

Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

Join us on for a drop-in Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club, all experience-levels welcome. Monday afternoons from 3—5 for eight weeks, September 30th through November 18th. Following the lineage of Portland’s own Lloyd Reynolds and Jaki Svaren, learn about posture, motion and breathing in alignment with calligraphic strokes. Through learning Italic and using it as a daily hand, we can bring beauty, attention, and rhythmic flow into our everyday script. $5—10 sliding scale materials fee.

$5 – $10

Joe Hill

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

In his masterful new collection of short fiction, Joe Hill – bestselling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather – dissects timeless human struggles in 13 relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In the Tall Grass,” one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. Full Throttle (William Morrow) is a darkly imagined odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, hidden vulnerabilities, and basest fears, and demonstrates this exceptional talent at his very best.

Free