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LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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East Coast book launch for The Animal at Your Side, featuring DC band All Her Muses and the art of Sara Everett Washington DC band All Her Muses will be performing at the virtual book launch for our new title The Animal at Your Side by Airlie Prize winner @ayil_m tomorrow, October 1, at 7pm ET.
Social artist and activist Adam W. McKinney opens Shelter in Place in the windows and first floor gallery of Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 1, 2020. Shelter in Place, which in its entirety is viewable from the sidewalk surrounding the museum, is a film, photography, and dance-based interrogation of the social tenets of Sukkot—departing and dwelling, expressing and atoning, striking and shaking. A Black Jewish response to histories of oppression, McKinney’s Shelter in Place is an inquiry into social isolation and the physical and emotional effects of anti-Black racial violence. While the museum is closed, the multimedia installation extends into the museum’s first floor gallery and windows and is completely viewable both day and night from the…
Join us virtually for this year’s Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts on Thursday, October 1 at 6:00 p.m. PDT! We’ll come together online to celebrate our creative community and hear powerful stories from some of Oregon’s brightest artists. Through story, we build community. RSVP and learn more here: https://www.avstream.me/bookmark.
Stranger & Str@ng3r, an evening of the Strange, the Odd, and the Delightful with Alton Chung, Anne Penfound, and Holly Robison brought to you virtually opn Saturday October 3 at 7:00. Take an answered prayer, a shapeshifter looking for wild justice, and two boys wandering about in an ancient temple alone at night -- what could possibly go wrong? Add in a wedding gown, a man in a coffin, and a game of skill with a goddess and you have a recipe for intrigue, ingenuity, and unlikely breathless endings. Join storytellers, Anne Penfound, Holly Robison, and Alton Takiyama-Chung for an evening of the Strange, the Odd, and the Delightful. The Portland Storytellers' Guild Virtual season continues on Saturday, October 3 at 7:00pm with Stranger &…
Join the Portland Storytellers' Guild for an informal evening of stories shared virtually. Join us to tell. Join us to listen. A friendly supportive atmosphere composed of tellers with all levels of experience. We'll fit in as many tellers as we can, so be prepared to volunteer at the start. Spoken stories (not read) to be limited to 6-7 minutes.
Presenters: Barbara Fankhauser and Ken Iverson Step Into Storytelling will introduce you to the basic principles of storytelling. Using fun exercises, interactive games, and shared resources, you’ll come away with a story of your own, shaped to share with friends and family. You won't find a gentler, safer, easier way to step into storytelling than these two, happy hours. Useful to those who are newer to this craft, this is also an opportunity for experienced storytellers to reflect on their work and sharpen their skills. This class is adapted from the live workshop Ken and Barbara offered two years ago. This is its maiden voyage out into the virtual universe. Saturday, October 10 from 10:00 am to noon. Attend virtually via Zoom. Click here to…
Hey, champ! Thanks for checking out Telltale. This used to be a monthly curated storytelling event for people that like to get vulnerable and take no shit, and it looks like it might be again? We are into genuine connection, laughter, heartbreak, poignant moments, and community building. We, in theory, should be just kicking off our 4th season, but...things got real weird. So I can’t promise that Telltale is back, because the future feels pretty hard to predict or commit to. But we are at least going to have a October show. Yeah, it’s going to be on zoom and not in person. Yeah, it’s not the same. But it’s better than nothing. And I said I’d do the show until the government stopped making…
Why do the dead come back? No one is really sure, but there are clues. You are cordially to an evening of ghost stories. Hear accounts of a haunted trailer in Greshem; of a state park in Hawaii, where no one dares spend the night; and of an old boarding house on Cape Cod, where a former lodger says that he was kissed by a ghost. Join storyteller, Alton Takiyama-Chung, for these and other stories, which may give you a little shiver and shed some light on the question of what may happen to us after we shuffle off the mortal coil. Japanese-Korean storyteller Alton Takiyama-Chung, grew up with the superstitions and the magic of the Hawaiian Islands. He tells stories of Hawaii, of the…
DISGUISES: Prepare a five-minute story about going undercover. Fake mustaches, heel lifts, cloaks, a nurse's uniform, or that giant hotdog costume. Mental disguises, like the Ph.D. you earned to appease your mother; or the "sensitive guy" persona you thought might work in your favor. Chameleon-level concealment. Pranks and mistaken identities. Wolves gussied up like lambs. The Trojan Horse, the Mighty Oz and now ... you! Media Sponsor: KUOW Additional Information About the Venue A link to the official Zoom room will be sent on the day of the event to anyone who purchases a ticket. Make sure you check your spam folder. If you have any issues accessing the event please contact info@themoth.org
John Darnielle (Wolf in White Van, Universal Harvester, the Mountain Goats), Leah Johnson (You Should See Me in a Crown), Daniel Lavery (Something That May Shock and Discredit You, The Merry Spinster, Slate’s Dear Prudence, The Toast), Amber Sparks (And I Do Not Forgive You, The Unfinished World), and R. Eric Thomas (Here for It, Elle magazine) join Dungeon Master Matt Lubchansky to play a classic tabletop role-playing game with a literary twist. If you’ve never played D&D before, don’t worry—most of our players haven’t either.