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Paul Lisicky – On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Sept. 21-22

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

When: September 21-22, 2019:: 10:00am - 4:00pm Where: The Corporeal Center; 510 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97210 Cost: $450 What does it mean to to write memoir and creative nonfiction in 2019? How to write out of our personal urgency while also asking questions about community, power—all that is wrong with the world and all we’d like to make better? How does it feel to be alive right now? We’ll think about those questions alongside all the matters of craft: voice, structure, focus, sonics, description, polarity, openings, closings. We’ll look closely at several short excerpts from outside work, generating new material inspired by those selections. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll work hard and make sure that play and seriousness share the same space. Paul Lisicky’s five…

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$450

Kami McBride Book Signing

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

The Herbal Kitchen with Kami McBride Is your kitchen ‘herb-ready’? Having the antimicrobial, carminative and antioxidant power of your herbs working for you at maximum capacity is what is needed now. Setting up an effective herbal kitchen is the foundation for making sure you get the daily dose of herbs you need if you really want a pro-active herbal health care plan in place for your family. The goal of your herbal kitchen is to feel inspired to get lots of herbs and spices into your meals every day. With 30 years’ experience helping families feel confident in their home herbalism skills, Kami has a few tricks up her sleeve, so you can sort through the herbal information overwhelm and fortify the therapeutic and nutrient…

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Free

Paul Lisicky Reading

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

Award winning author, Paul Lisicky will enchant us with his words on Saturday, September 21st 2019, after day one of his workshop :: On Urgency at Corporeal Center. This reading is free and open to the public. You can also pre-order Paul's forthcoming book, LATER with Graywolf Press (2020) here :: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/later

Free

Bulletproof Your Year: Bullet Journaling Workshop

Two Rivers Bookstore 8836 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR, United States

Our popular workshop is back for fall, now at Two Rivers Bookstore's new location! Do you feel unorganized and overwhelmed in your life? Do you have lots of to-do lists floating around? Learn how to use a bullet journal and get organized. Join Liz, Allison and Christine for a morning of learning, creating, and community. Time to organize your life and get S*@# done! What's Included: A new Leuchturm1917 dot grid notebook (super fun colors, the best for bullet journaling and a $20 value!) Tips and layout ideas to get creative with your bujo Colored markers, stickers, pens, and other supplies to get creative Light refreshments provided Register in advance. Limited space!

$30

Drive-Thru Dreams

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

Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams (Flatiron), Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry's largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, corporate, and worse. But, in unexpected ways, fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a larger-than-life image of America. Drive-Thru Dreams tells an intimate and contemporary story of America – its humble beginning, its innovations and failures, its international charisma, and its regional identities – through its beloved roadside fare.

Free

Avan Jogia

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

From actor Avan Jogia comes a raw and moving collection of poetry, stories, and art about living as a mixed-race person in a world increasingly fixated on racial identity. In Mixed Feelings (Andrews McMeel), Jogia explores his complicated emotions around race, identity, religion, and family through poetry and imagery. Drawing on his own life story as well as interviews he's conducted with friends and strangers, Mixed Feelings serves as a dialogue-starter for difficult topics that now, more than ever, need to be discussed.

Free

Christopher Leonard

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. He’s a genius businessman, but there’s another side to this story. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, stalled progress on climate change, and how our corporations bought the influence industry, all you have to do is read Christopher Leonard’s Kochland (Simon & Schuster). Seven years in the making, Kochland reads like a true-life thriller, telling the ambitious tale of how one private company consolidated power over half a century – and how in doing so, it helped transform capitalism into something that feels deeply alienating to many Americans today.

Free

Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

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

In Waking the Witch (Gallery), podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman explores the cultural and historical impact of the world’s most magical icon. From the idea of the femme fatale in league with the devil to the bewitching pop culture archetypes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Harry Potter; from the spooky ladies in fairy tales and horror films to the rise of feminist covens and contemporary witchcraft, witches reflect the power and potential of women. Waking the Witch is a whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the world’s fascination with witches.

Free

Marilyn Stablein

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Marilyn Stablein joins us at 7 pm on Wednesday, September 25th, to read from her recently published travelogue on her journeys through India, Nepal, and Tibet, Houseboat on the Ganges: Letters from India & Nepal: 1966-1972, published by Chin Music. Stablein left her studies in Berkeley in 1966 as a teenager to live in the Far East, before the heft of the counter-culture's spiritual land rush to India and at a time when -- with few exceptions -- most such accounts were written by the occasional male pilgrim. Through letters Stablein wrote to her family in California, which her mother lovingly saved, we also encounter the astonishing independence of a courageous young woman at the forefront of the spiritual revolution of the '60s. The book…

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Free

Naomi Klein in Conversation With Thom Hartmann

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

For more than 20 years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet – and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, Klein pens prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire (Simon & Schuster) gathers Klein’s impassioned writing on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices. Klein will be joined in conversation by Thom Hartmann, radio host and author of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment.

Free
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