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Metaphysik – Game Release + Book Signing with DMD and Stevenson

Paxton Gate 4204 N Mississippi Ave, Portland

Join us in celebrating the release of Daniel Martin Diaz's latest Mind Game of Divination entitled Metaphysik with accompanying book by Portland writer, artist, and poet Coleman Stevenson. Copies of the game and DMD's nearly sold out artbook Soul Machine will be available for purchase + signing. The Metaphysik deck by artist Daniel Martin Diaz is a tool for problem solving that helps users engage more deeply with their intuitive and imaginative selves. The cards can be used in a variety of ways, individually or pieced together like a puzzle, to explore different modes of thinking and overcome creative blocks. Metaphysik’s evocative imagery is an invitation to a strange new world where experiences of the mystical in the midst of everyday life inspire users to…

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Last Sunday Writing Workshop

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland

Last Sunday @ The Stacks will be powered by Dovesong Labs, and your workshop instructor will be jayy dodd. These workshops are available to all on a drop-in basis and all skill levels are welcome. The workshop will begin with some instruction and presentation by the workshop leader, and there will also be time to write, so please bring your pen/paper/laptop/typewriter. $5 suggested donation.

Free – $5

Tell Me A Story? #5

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland

Tell Me A Story? is back at our newish home at Rose City Book Pub for the fifth installment of our series! Please join us Sunday, June 30 from 7-9pm as we welcome work from Sylvia Rodemeyer, John Miller, Kevin Sampsell, Raveena Bhalara, and Matthew Dinaro. As always, this event is free of cost and hosted and curated by Jessica Wadleigh.

Free

The Hour That Stretches: June 30, 2019

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland

Kertoa Kalevala-based comparative mythologist and oral storyteller Ilana Hamilton returns to the Hour; along with founding supporter/author/gallery artist Justin Montgomery, and two fresh, seething Hour virgins... I mean newcomers... poet Josh Baker, and thrice-newcomer poet in the Hour tradition of many other beloved discoveries, Angela Douglass. Your MC will also be reading another chunk of I AM LESION, since you folks like those bits so much. This mutation has to do with Speed. And what happens when someone notices you sitting on an illness. And how incredible people turn a j-o-b into a j-o-y. 6/30/2019, 7-10 PM, 2505 SE 11th Ave, FORD FOOD AND DRINK. NOMINALLY ALL AGES SHOW, SAFE SPACE, BE MINDFUL. FREE BY DONATION, DONATIONS ENCOURAGED. Come help keep live spoken word alive…

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