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Street Books Celebration & Fundraiser: Special Guest Karen Russell

Lagunitas Community Room 237 NE Broadway St #300, Portland, OR, United States

Join us as we celebrate the ninth year of operation and honor the patrons who have checked out books all summer long. There will be a taco bar by Los Gorditos, an onsite photo booth by artist Julie Keefe, and back by popular demand: the Book Divinator Machine. Put a token into the slot to have a book magically divined for you. Emceed by the fabulous Paul Susi, there will be a short program featuring librarians and patrons from the season, and time to enjoy wine and beer (included in the ticket price) with friends. We'll see you there! Street Books, a bicycle-powered mobile library serving people who live outside & at the margins, will hold its annual fundraiser and nine-year anniversary celebration on Thursday,…

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$30

The Half Past 40 Howling Drunk Poetry Bash

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

Make no mistake. This is a birthday party, but this is not just any party....This is a birthday party for all the losers who were picked last, who never received an invitation, who was never asked out for the school dance. This is a party for us! This is the party celebrating two thing I love most in this world, poetry and music. The evenings literary and musical entertainment will be provided by some of the people I respect and admire the most in the Portland area. The very fact these special people agreed to do this with me astounds me. Remember, no gifts needed. Bring joy! Bring tears! But mostly just bring your own lovely selves! The event starts at 6:30 P.M. and the…

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Free

Comedy vs. Tragedy #19

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Comedy vs. Tragedy is a variety competition show in Portland, Oregon. This is our two year anniversary show! A poet, a musician and a comedian bring their best performance skills to the stage and vie for audience applause. The winner features in the next show, gets a cash prize and one hour recording session at Shady Pines Media (www.shadypinesmedia.com). In the Final round the new winner competes against the reigning champion of Comedy vs. Tragedy. This month we have a feature performance from poet Julia Gaskill, the winner of Comedy vs. Tragedy #18. Julia Gaskill is a professional daydreamer hailing from Portland, Oregon. When she’s not hosting Slamlandia, she can be found performing on the Portland Poetry Slam stage, exploring the Pacific Northwest, or walking…

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$10

The Mystery Box Show and RISK! at Revolution Hall

Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Details TBA. About The Mystery Box Show: From vanilla to kinky, queer to straight, and everything in between, a night at The Mystery Box Show brings you tales of one-night stands, explorations into fetish, awkward first times, dark fantasies come true, and much much more. Storytellers have included bestselling authors, nationally touring comedians, adult film industry veterans, theatre professionals, sex toy experts, members from the kink community, students and people from all walks of life. Nothing here is too raw, too sweet, too strange, or too deep; it's all about the sex, and all about the story.

$20

The Siren Theater Improv Giants with monologist Chelsea Cain

The Siren Theater 315 NW Davis St, Portland, OR, United States

What happens when you take a handful of Portland's best improv comedians, the personal stories of a NYT Bestselling author, and put them on stage together? Total magic is what. Join us for a night of improv comedy inspired by the stories of the amazing CHELSEA CAIN. Author of One Kick ( which was made into a TV show called Gone), Man- Eaters, the comic book series Mockingbird, and so much more. And featuring the improv comedy of these Giants: Shelley McLendon (Artistic Director/ Owner of The Siren Theater, The Aces) Nicholas Kessler (Host of The Moth, Twist Your Dickens cast member at PCS) Kirsten Schier (Curious Comedy) Chris Williams (Broke Gravy) One night only! $10 adv/ $!5 doors 7:30 doors/ 8pm show sirentheater.com

$5 – $10

ROAR: LAUGHTER

Magenta Theater 1108 Main St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Details TBA.

$15

Drag Queen Banned Books Bingo

Alberta Abbey 126 NE Alberta Street #205, Portland, OR, United States

Join Poison Waters and special drag queen guest performers to celebrate the freedom to read and have fun by playing Banned Books Bingo. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship. This event is for an adult audience. This event will be held at the Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St. Enjoy food and drinks for purchase at the Abbey's cafe. Doors open at 6pm Seats available at 6:30pm Showtime at 7pm

Free

7DS: Pants On Fire!

White Eagle 836 N Russell St, Portland, OR, United States

Pants On Fire! features seven storytellers telling the most insane, outrageous, hard-to-believe stories from their own lives. The catch? One of those seven will actually be telling a bald-faced lie -- a whopper that never actually happened. Think you can spot which of our seven storytellers is the liar? If you can, you might win a stay at McMenamin's Edgefield Hotel on us. Not sure you can which is guess the liar? No worries! There will be other ways to win valuable prizes throughout the evening, including a chance to take on one of your fellow audience members in our Two Truths & A Lie Mano-y-Mano Cage Match. Even if you don't win, you'll walk away having heard seven of the most wild, outrageous, hard-to-believe…

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$10

Monqui Presents Kate Tempest

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St, Portland, OR, United States

Kate Esther Tempest (born 22 December 1985) is an English poet, spoken word artist and playwright. In 2013 she won the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients.

$18 – $20

Trans Voices Fringe Fest

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

This showcase features independent trans and genderqueer artists exhibiting nontraditional and unconventional vocal expressions. Organized by A Stick And A Stone! LINEUP: Cohabitation of Breaths - Abigail J Hansel of Yolk Sauna & June T Sanders (trans femme audio-visual ambient noise duo from "Idaho") Porch Cat (grunge-y pop punk / riot grrrl from "Bellingham") Sibila (industrial dancey synthy noise en español from "Olympia") DJ Vu (improv / experimental / noise from "Olympia") ChrisTiana Obeysummer (spoken word from "Seattle") Mx. Valentino (jazz-folk-punk) Robert Torres (poetry / spoken word) Sefer Raziel (glitch / noise / performance art) Myllo Mae (performance art) Dreams (synthy gay electronic beat rock) A Stick And A Stone (haunting choral experimentations) & More TBA In conjunction with TVF 2019 (a festival of trans…

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Free
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