LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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2019/2020 Portland Arts & Lectures: Colson Whitehead (virtual event)

Online N/A, Portland

Colson whitehead will be joined POST-LECTURE In conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson. This event is underwritten by The Eberwein Family NOTE: Colson Whitehead will not be traveling in person to Portland this season. Rather than wait until 2022 for an in-person event, we have decided to make this event virtual and will take place on Thursday, September 24, 2020. What you need to know: High Quality: This event will have a high production value, and will deliver a unique evening with one of our greatest writers at work today.  This event will only be available to subscribers to the 2019-20 season, which is sold out, via a private channel online. More Communication Coming: We will be sending you more emailed information on how you can access the event online. We appreciate…

Free

Telltale: Nothing Ever Goes Away

Online N/A, Portland

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 perhaps it will 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 September 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 me angry…

Free – $7