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For Colored Folks

Ruby Receptionists 805 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT IT IS: A book club geared to cultivating joy and empowerment for people of color. The book lists will include non-fiction written by POCs and some fiction as well. Donations are not required to attend, but if you'd like to donate to contribute to snacks and beverages that we bring feel free to Cash app me at $BriaunaMcKizzie or venmo me at brigirl ABOUT THE SPACE: The meetings will be held at my job, Ruby Receptionists, which is located on the 9th floor of the Fox Tower. Free parking on the street after 7:00 PM. It's also located like 5-7 minutes from the max. Carpooling would be great, too. I live on the west side and would be happy to have other West siders…

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Free

Telltale: Hail to Whatever

Chapel Theatre 4107 SE Harrison St, Milwaukie, OR, United States

Hey, champ! Thanks for checking out Telltale. This is a monthly curated storytelling event for people that like to get vulnerable and take no shit. We are into genuine connection, laughter, heartbreak, poignant moments, and community building. We are now in our third season, and we are very excited for all the shows coming up this year. At Telltale, you can expect 8-10 performers sharing something with you, in the way that feels right to them--so there will be a mix of comedy, stories, music, essays, and more. Your evening will likely include honesty, swear words, enthusiasm, resistance, alcohol if that floats your boat, excellent pizza, dark humor, and some rad raffle prizes. You might make a new friend. You know how hard it is…

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$8

Autumn Moon Festival: Storytime with Carol Gwo

Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett St, Portland, OR, United States

Most cultures have a harvest festival and China is no exception. Zhong Qiu Jie (中秋节), the Autumn Moon Festival, has roots back to ancient times and is an important traditional Chinese holiday. Traditionally taking place on the fifteenth day of the eight month of the lunar calendar, the Autumn Moon Festival is usually on or close to the time of the “Harvest Moon” when the moon appears at its fullest during the autumnal equinox. Chinese storytellers have many tales about the Moon Palace and the inhabitants of the moon. One of the most endearing characters of many moon stories is a short-tailed rabbit that pounds the elixir of immortality with a mortar and pestle under a grove of cassia trees. The most popular inhabitant of…

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$7.95 – $10.95

Hum and Swish Story Time with Matt Myers

Green Bean Books 1600 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us in welcoming author/illustrator Matt Myers as he reads his picture book Hum and Swish on Sunday, September 15th at 11am! In this contemplative story, Jamie is spending a day at the beach creating... well, something, she doesn't know yet. She's constantly getting interrupted so will she ever get it done? A celebration of being introverted. Some of the other books he's illustrated are The Infamous Ratsos series written by Kara LaReau and Battle Bunny written by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett.

Free

The Adoption – David Schein

Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for a reading from The Adoption, the newest work from David Schein. An international coming of age story in a world where borders are collapsing and Ethiopian children beg pennies from eco-tourists to use at internet cafés to FB their cousins in Las Vegas. Tracking the coming of age of brothers and sisters, friends and cousins across the cultural divide, and set in Ethiopia, Chicago, Dubai, and China through twenty years of the most rapid development Africa has ever known, The Adoption is contemporary and international, tracking the lives of kids growing up today in tomorrow’s world. Writer? Composer? Actor? Performance Artist? Social Change Artist? David Schein is hard to pin down. He attended the Undergraduate Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa where…

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Free

The Moth: StorySLAM: Neighborhoods

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

NEIGHBORHOODS: Prepare a five-minute story about communities. Nosy grandma two doors down, kids on the stoop, block parties and other local flavors. The guy at the corner store, the church down the road, the playground down the block. Keeping up with the Joneses, glass houses, cups of sugar, banging on the ceiling, parking spot battles or the girl-next-door. 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. * It has been four years since we last raised SLAM ticket prices; we…

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$15

Delve Seminar: Richard Powers’ The Overstory and the Nature Writings of John Muir

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

In this Delve seminar, we will compare the ecological writing of Richard Powers and John Muir. Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, comes to us at a time when concern for preserving natural spaces has exploded into anxiety over the planet’s very future. While grappling with deforestation and global warming in fiction, Powers sees himself as a realist. He asks, “Which is more childish, naïve, romantic, or mystical: the belief that we can get away with making Earth revolve around our personal appetites and fantasies, or the belief that a vast, multi-million-pronged project four and a half billion years old deserves a little reverent humility?” Muir, something of a father for the national parks movement, used an ecological perspective in his stories of adventure and…

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$220

Front Porch Sessions at The Alberta Street Pub

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

One Host, Three Storytellers, Three Questions and a whole lot of conversations. Please join us as Front Porch Sessions kicks off its first event of the year on September 19th from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Alberta Street Pub in Northeast Portland. Get ready to once again make less strangers in the world! Theme: "Back to School" with story tellers: Ezell Watson III Depart in Love.  This is what the name “Ezell” means.  Born and raised in Birmingham Alabama, the product of high school aged parents, I believe “It takes a village.”  My village has been a mobile one, attending college in Virginia and Alabama, and working and living in various villages across the U.S—from the Southeast Panhandle to the Pacific Northwest.  I’ve…

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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
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