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The Write to Heal Retreat

Rockaway Beach 103 South 1st Street, Rockaway Beach

This is a rare opportunity to connect, share, create and constructively critique with other folks that can relate. Heal Write! Workshop Series and The Write to Heal Retreat is an open space that will inspire creatives to speak their truth to trauma. We intentionally design the environment to be safe, culturally competent, and collaborative. Registration is simple, space is limited. Participants in the The Heal Write! Workshop Series are eligible to recieve scholarships to attend The Write to Heal Retreat, November 1-3rd, 2019 in Rockaway Beach, Oregon.    We encourage writers of any genre, at any stage in their writing development to join an open space that inspires creatives to speak their truth to trauma.  There is no cost to attend the Heal Write! Workshop…

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$270

Risograph Basics with Kate Bingaman-Burt & Outlet Assistants!

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland

Welcome to the Risograph Basics, Collage Experimentation and Mark Making Extravaganza! Participants will take home and edition of 2-color 8.5x11 prints of your own design plus one print from all of the workshop participants (your own starter print collection!) REGISTER HERE! Come and get to know Outlet's Barbara the Risograph and her sisters Lil' Tina and Janet! Want to learn what Risograph printing is? Want to meet others who do too? Come and learn all about the basics of the Risograph in our two-color introduction workshop. The workshop will kick off with a Show & Tell of exactly what a Risograph can do with a printing demo, print and zine samples and a general exploration of how we can get the best results from this amazing printing machine.…

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$50 – $65

Reclaim your Voice: From the Page to the Stage w/Domi Shoemaker and G. Ravyn Stanfield: Nov. 2&3

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Where: The Corporeal Center: 510 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97204 When: November 2 + 3 (Sat+Sun) 10-5p (*partial scholarships are available! please contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com to inquire) Join us on this provocative and playful mind/body immersion into the heart of art spoken aloud. Are you carrying old stories about using (or not using) your voice? Do your hands shake when you are asked to read your work in public? Do you want to expand your vocal range and speaking ability through the power of shared creativity and a whole lot of fun? If you answer YES to any of these, this workshop is for you! Come awaken the power of your authentic voice in an incredibly supportive environment. We will guide you and help…

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$300

Kids’ Storytime

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

Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Saturday by Oge Mora.

Free

Frankenstein’s Comicbook Swap 17: Day of the Dead!

East Portland Eagle Lodge 3256 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

Frankenstein's Comicbook Swap returns to the Eagle Lodge Saturday November 2nd! Buy/Sell/Trade comics, comic books, toys, cards, buttons, graphic novels, tpb, posters, magazines, records, hugs, drinks, popcorn, kids stuff. $1 entry 12-6pm Kids and elders Free! $5 early bird 11am-12pm We are also taking cans of food donations for the Oregon Food Bank. East Portland Eagle Lodge 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd PDX 97215 http://www.frankensteinscomicbookswap.com/ https://twitter.com/FranksComicSwap https://instagram.com/frankscomicswap/

$1 – $5

Bind your own Coptic Journal–in Portland OR!

Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland

Hope Amico of gutwrench press is coming to the northwest for Olympis Zine fest and is making a stop in Portland to lead this one day workshop. Information on other classes in the area can be found at www.gutwrenchpress.com/classes Make your own journal or sketchbook! In this 5 hour class we will turn old hardcover books into a durable journal that will lay flat when open but is sturdy enough to carry with you everywhere. We will prepare the pages and covers, and then learn the coptic binding to assemble the book. Students will leave with a finished book to take home. All materials are provided. The fee for this class is $120. This class will take place Saturday November 2 from noon until 5…

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$120

NEFP Benefit Raffle Drawing at Excalibur Comics!

Excalibur Comics 2444 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland

We're gathering items the Northeast Emergency Food Program needs from October 1st through November 1st. For every item on the list you bring in, you'll get a raffle ticket. And then, on November 2nd, we're raffling away an assortment of incredible prizes, like: a Kurt Busiek signed script, Benjamin Dewey Comics & Illustration signed prints, Rogue Ales & Spirits and The Nerd Out gift cards, A Wave Blue World graphic novels, original art and MORE!

Free

An afternoon with poets Willa Schneberg + Marilyn Stablein

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Poets Willa Schneberg + Marilyn Stablein will read on Saturday November 2nd at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop.   Marilyn will read from her new books, Houseboat on the Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu (Chin Music Press, June 2019) and Milepost 27 (Black Heron Press, April 2019).   Willa would read from her essay entitled “Where Guests are gods: A Poet’s Sojourn in Kathmandu,” published in Calyx: A Journal of Art & Literature by Women as well as from poems she wrote this summer at the Mudhouse Residency in Crete.   Willa Schneberg is a poet, ceramic sculptor, curator, and psychotherapist in private practice. She has authored five poetry collections including: Box Poems; In The Margins of The World, recipient of the Oregon Book Award; Storytelling…

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Free

Wordlights Poetry ft. Allegra White

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, November 2nd, we'll have a feature from Allegra White and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Allegra White Allegra White is a writer based in Portland, OR. Allegra's chapbook of poetry On The Backs Of Product Request Forms (2019) explores themes of escapism and humor in the mundane. She studied English Literature at Cal State Northridge and is an avid rock climber. She currently paints billboards in Portland for work and writes and climbs in her free time. *** Sign-ups start at 5:30, show starts at 6PM. On first and third Saturdays each performer in the open mic gets 10 minutes, there are only 8 slots…

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Free

One Year Anniversary Halloween Party

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham

Join us for an all ages spooktacular celebration of reaching our year anniversary! We love Halloween and want to celebrate a year with all of you! We will have a sale ALL DAY! From 7-11pm we'll have our Anniversary Halloween Party! The sale will still be going on along with a costume contest, giveaways, festive music, and cupcakes. Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to the date!

Free

Fur Not Light Party & Reading

Cardinal Club 18 NE 28th Ave, Portland

To celebrate the publication of Jeff Alessandrelli's second poetry collection Fur Not Light Cardinal Club will be hosting a post-Halloween party/reading with some of Jeff's friends who helped him shape/edit the book. Special drinks and foodstuffs inspired by Fur Not Light will be for sale and free (chocolate) cake will also be available. This will be the international literary event of the decade. Fur Not Light press blurbicle: Taking its inspiration from the work of Russian Absurdist authors such as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, Fur Not Light interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. Incorporating serial poems such as “Nothing of the Month Club” and “December 32nd,” as well as the long ideogram-based work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in…

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Free
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