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Pop-Up Magazine – Spring Issue 2019

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

A night of true stories, documentary films, photography, and radio from some of our favorite writers, performers, and musicians. Unrecorded, live onstage. Pop-Up Magazine is a live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience. Each evening is unique, but here are a few things to look forward to: Some of the country’s most interesting writers, filmmakers, photographers, radio producers, and illustrators share new, true stories onstage. Stories come to life on a giant screen filled with photographs, films, illustrations, and animations. Story soundtracks are composed and performed live onstage by Magik*Magik Orchestra. Curious, creative people come to see old friends and meet new ones. Venues like BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and The…

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$29

Pop-Up Magazine – Spring Issue 2019

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

A night of true stories, documentary films, photography, and radio from some of our favorite writers, performers, and musicians. Unrecorded, live onstage. Pop-Up Magazine is a live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience. Each evening is unique, but here are a few things to look forward to: Some of the country’s most interesting writers, filmmakers, photographers, radio producers, and illustrators share new, true stories onstage. Stories come to life on a giant screen filled with photographs, films, illustrations, and animations. Story soundtracks are composed and performed live onstage by Magik*Magik Orchestra. Curious, creative people come to see old friends and meet new ones. Venues like BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and The…

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$29

The Blackonteurs

Deep End Theater 211 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The Blackonteurs are back at The Deep End Theater! ​Named one of “Six New Projects Shaking Up Portland’s Arts Scene” by Portland Monthly, The Blackonteurs is Portland’s own storytelling show that features all black and African-American performers sharing their stories of triumph, struggle and laughter. On Thursday, May 16th at 7:30pm, join us for performances by: - Jerry Bell, Jr! - Courtenay Collins! - Thomas Malcolm Cook! - Laquida Landford! - Jewel Williams! And hosted by the forever-effervescent Leann Johnson, recently voted Best Host of the 3rd Annual NW Black Comedy Festival!

$12

The PRIDE Show

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

Pride is coming a month early! For our two-year anniversary show, we're bringing you an incredible lineup. Our storytellers include Nastashia Minto (who will be doing a book signing), Marli Williams, Flint, Blu Kody Christensen, and we're bringing back the hilarious Deb Wheelbarger (from our JOY show). We'll have prizes, treats, and a special announcement. Thank you for two incredible years of courage, community, and hope! Tickets Here

$15

The Turnout presents Front Porch Sessions feat Nishat Akhtar, Andrew Holguin, and Lindsey E. Murphy

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St, Portland, OR, United States

Theme: "Adventure" May 20th, 2019, 8:00pm The Turnout @ Secret Society - tickets > 116 NE Russell Street, Portland, OR 97212 with story tellers: Lindsey E. Murphy Lindsey E. Murphy is the award-winning entrepreneur, executive producer, creator and host behind YouTube’s most beloved kids science show, The Fab Lab With Crazy Aunt Lindsey, which takes everyday science concepts and turns them into fabulous DIY projects. Before breaking out on her own in 2017, Lindsey spent more than 15 years in digital media, marketing, and business development, having started her career at MTV Networks and moving on to XBOX, Nike, Wieden+Kennedy, and many other iconic brands. As the CEO of Murph Media Co., Lindsey specializes in making content from the heart, digital consulting, audience + creative development.…

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$10

The Moth: StorySLAM: Flawed

Holocene 1001 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

FLAWED: Prepare a five-minute story about pitfalls. Imperfections....a glitch that changed your course either for the better or for the worse. Times that even Beyonce couldn't say "I woke up like this." Some say the flaws are what makes something beautiful. This venue is 21+ *Tickets for this event are available one week before the show, at 12pm PT / 3pm ET. *Seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. Admission is not guaranteed for late arrivals. All sales final. Media Sponsors: OPB and Literary Arts

$5 – $20

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

The Moth: StorySLAM: Chemistry

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St, Portland, OR, United States

CHEMISTRY: Prepare a five-minute story about the power of combinations. Complex reactions, sparks, explosions…magical solutions. Dynamic rapport and explosive interactions. Opposites that attract or pheromones that fizzle. Lessons in the lab of life. Transformation. Safety goggles ON. Cu There. This venue is 21+. *Tickets for this event are available one week before the show, at 12pm PT / 3pm ET. *Seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. Admission is not guaranteed for late arrivals. All sales final. Media Sponsors: OPB and Literary Arts

$5 – $20

Storytime for Grownups

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

David Loftus' long-running storytelling series returns once again to the Rose City Book Pub, this time paying tribute to the deliciousness of MFK Fisher's words.

Free

Biscello & Badalamenti at the Rose City Book Pub

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

Portland's new chill-n-chat literary hotspot, the Rose City Book Pub, will host Unsolicited Press authors, John Biscello and Frances Badalamenti, who will be reading from their respective novels: Nocturne Variations and I Don't Blame You. Books will be available for purchase, and the evening will also include a special musical performance by Elite Beat. NOCTURNE VARIATIONS: Dystopic Peter Pan meets surrealist noir in this cinemythical tale about love, loss and the illusions of shadow-play. Los Angeles, December, 1989, is when we first meet seventeen-year-old Piers, runaway, savant puppeteer, spiritual love-child of Holden Caulfield and Edie Sedgwick. Addicted to Sike, an experimental drug which promises a surrogate return to Childhood, Piers, in an act of revenge, robs a briefcase full of Sike from her dealer and…

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