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Vanport Mosaic Festival: Becoming American. A conversation

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

As part of The ~virtual~ Vanport Mosaic Festival 2020 - May 8-30 Vanport Mosaic presents: BECOMING AMERICAN. A Conversation ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sunday, May 17th 5:00 PM PST/ 8:00 PM EST Streaming on Vanport Mosaic Facebook page and at www.vanportmosaic.org ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• This is a FREE event. If you can, please support our memory activism collective by a tax-deductible donation to >> vanportmosaic.org/donate •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Who gets to be “American?” How many generations does it take for one to become an American? These questions of American identity have long surrounded the immigrant experience and its answers are tangled in our country’s webbed history with immigration, racism and xenophobia. Join author Ramiza Koya and founder of The Immigrant Story, Sankar Raman as they bring their unique perspectives and explore ideas…

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Free

HYPNOZINE Release Party

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A release party for us all to slip into the HYPNO-verse. HYPNOZINE: THE BIRTH OF HYPNO is an illustrated psychedelic science fiction novel that ebbs and flows between narrative and poetry written by Jason Squamata, with illustrations and design by Andrew Mc Kenzie. It’s a mythology from a weird future that shifts and shimmers on the other side of our chaos. A book-shaped game that kisses the eye and says “play.”

Free

Virtual Story Time with Nikki McClure

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Throwing it back to better days when Nikki McClure read her latest picture book What Will These Hands Make? And thinking ahead to brighter days when she'll read to us- virtually!- her book, Mama, Is It Summer Yet? Join us Tuesday, May 19th at 11am right here on our Facebook page!

Free

Page to Screen Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Books Around the Corner Page to Screen Book Club is led by the owner/librarian, Stephanie Rose, and meets monthly on the third Tuesday of every month at 6PM beginning in May. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our customers that love books that have or will become adapted into shows or films. (RSVP is not required). Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Join us on May 19th for our first Page to Screen Book Club. We will discuss Normal People by Sally Rooney. Connell…

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Free

Online Fiction Workshop for Teens

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

This course consists of three consecutive 90-minute workshops that will take place from noon – 1:30 p.m on May 14, May 21, and May 28, 2020 and will be taught via Zoom, by writer Jules Ohman. The workshop is open to high school students at all skills levels interested in writing fiction. Students will be guided through fun and generative writing exercises, learn new craft techniques, and receive feedback on their work from their peers and instructor. Limited to 16 students. Zoom meeting instructions to be emailed to students by instructor prior to class start. Jules Ohman (pronouns: she/hers) is a program specialist and writer for Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools program. She co-founded the nonprofit Free Verse, which teaches creative writing in juvenile…

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Free – $30

Page Turner Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Join us on May 21st for our next Page Turner Book Club. We will discuss Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel. For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose…

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Free

Spec Script: Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul on Twitch

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Spec Script is back ONLINE as we bring classic and new episodes to twitch.tv! This Saturday we are doing Better Call Saul by Sarah Kennedy and Breaking Bad by Shane Hosea! Your readers include: Kendra Jean Brand Shannon Strucci Alexandra Jade And More! Hosted by Chris Khatami, Lydia Manning, and Shane Hosea 1pm PST May 23rd twitch.tv/SpecScript

Free

Young Adult Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Young Adult Book Club meets the last Tuesdays of every month at 6pm starting in May. Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. You don't have to RSVP, just come and enjoy a lively discussion. We welcome both teens and adults to join this book club! Join us for the our first meeting on May 26th of the Young Adult Book Club. We will discuss Sadie by Courtney Summers. About the Book: A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial―like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about. We offer…

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Free

Live Stream Reading: Trace Kerr: The Names We Take

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Spokane author Trace Kerr for a live stream reading from her novel, The Names We Take. Streaming link to come. Never leave someone behind: it's a promise easier made than kept, especially when seventeen-year-old Pip takes the headstrong twelve-year-old Iris under her protection in the wake of an earth-shattering plague. After an unspeakable tragedy, the duo must negotiate the complexities of their own identities amid the nearly unrecognizable remains of Spokane, Washington. When they're captured by a violent gang, Pip and Iris meet Fly, a stubborn and courageous older girl. When their captors exchange them for supplies at Thistle Hill Orchard, an idyllic farm turned commune, it seems that the girls' luck has finally changed for the better. But the proselytizing of…

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Free

Fiction Addiction Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The Fiction Addiction Book Club meets the last Wednesday of every month at 6pm. Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. You don't have to RSVP, just come and enjoy a lively discussion. Join us on May 27th at 6pm for our May meeting. We will discuss The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman. About the Book: Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own…shell. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil.…

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