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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi in Conversation With Tayari Jones

Online N/A, Portland

International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s new novel, A Girl Is a Body of Water (Tin House), is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and — most importantly — how they find their way back to each other. In her 12th year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: Who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta — her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts — but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a…

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Free

Church of Craft

True North Studios 455 NE 71st Avenue, Portland

FREE - 10 spot limit The chapel doors are open! We would like True North to remain a sanctuary for makers during these difficult times, and that means continuing to make space for our community members to feel connected and creative, while remaining safely distanced. Join us for Church of Craft on Sunday, September 13th! We are welcoming up to ten people to come work on art and catch up on some much-needed socially-distant time with fellow makers! Your safety is our priority. Masks will be required indoors and we have hand sanitizer stations available. We will also have rolling workspaces both indoors and outdoors, with a collection of tools and paper at the ready. The garage door will also be open and fan on…

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Free

On Becoming 1 / Lost and Found / Tolentino

Online N/A, Portland

Whitenoise Project presents a new BIPOC writing workshop: On Becoming, where we explore the state of becoming as a state of infinite potential and evolution, to contrast with the static essentialism of being. Becoming is a verb with a consistency all its own; it does not reduce to, or lead back to, "appearing," "being," "equaling," or producing."(Deleuze/Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 39). cost: FREE please register for zoom link and password: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-becoming-1-lost-and-found-tolentino-tickets-119973633367 By popular demand, we are bringing back our first workshop for the full two hours this time instead of only one! On Becoming (1) Lost and Found: how we are lost in space and time. How we find ourselves. How becoming "lost and found" is a present participle, an ongoing act rather than a…

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First Matter Press 2020 Book Release

Cathedral Park N Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue, Portland

Come join First Matter Press for a Poetry Reading in the Park to celebrate our 2020 Titles, featuring Peter Hamer, Eitan Codish, K. M. Lighthouse, Dan Wiencek and Lauren Paredes. Sunday, September 13, 2020 Cathedral Park, Portland OR (underneath the St. John's Bridge) Gather at 5:30pm Readings begin at 6pm Physical distancing and masks required. Please bring your own blanket/chair, drinks and snacks. Questions? firstmatterpress@gmail.com Rain? Check our website firstmatterpress.org for weather updates

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Mike Birbiglia & J. Hope Stein Ticketed Event

Online N/A, Portland

In The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad (Grand Central), comedian Mike Birbiglia devotes his unflinching and brilliant storytelling acumen to parenthood — to fatherhood — as well as how he, a man deeply determined never to have children, found himself with one. Nuanced, honest, hilarious, but also poignant, it’s a story that reveals not only his own but also our collective human nature — reassuring us that we’re actually all in this thing together. The New One is sprinkled with poetry by Birbiglia’s wife, J. Hope Stein, written as she navigated the same rocky shores of new parenthood. With laugh-out-loud observations on the roller coaster of being a parent, The New One is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a…

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