Reading: Christine Light
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, PortlandChristine will read from her book Crisis of Character: Finding Our Moral Compass in a Trumped Up World.
Free
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Readings
ONE PAGE Wednesday: December
Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, PortlandWriters, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh work. Here is an opportunity to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented Portland writers.Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired! November's One Page Wednesday is hosted by Emilly Prado. December’s featured readers are Jewels and Ramiza Koya. The reading begins at 7:00. Doors open around 6:30 p.m. Potential readers can sign up to read and after the list is full, they can add their name to the fishbowl and Emilly will draw as many additional names to read as we have time for before 8:30 p.m. One Page = one page, one…
Free
The Pacific Northwest Seafood Cookbook
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, PortlandFor thousands of years, the abundance of fish and shellfish in the Pacific Northwest created a seafood paradise for the Indigenous peoples hunting and gathering along the region’s pristine waterways, and, later, for the Chinese, Scandinavian, Filipino, and Japanese immigrants (along with many others) who have made this region home. Drawing on these diverse influences, the region fostered a cuisine that is as varied as its people, yet which remains specifically Northwestern. In The Pacific Northwest Seafood Cookbook (Countryman), food writer Naomi Tomky leads readers through an exploration of this cuisine.
Free
Rupi Kaur
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, PortlandRupi Kaur is a poet, artist, and performer. At the age of five, her mother handed her a paintbrush and said, “draw your heart out.” At seventeen, she happened upon a local open mic night where she performed her first spoken word poem. While studying at the University of Waterloo, Rupi wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first collection, milk and honey. In the years since, milk and honey has become an international phenomenon. It’s sold over 3 million copies, been translated into more than 35 languages, and landed as a #1 New York Times bestseller—where it has spent more than 100 consecutive weeks. Rupi's long-awaited second collection, the sun and her flowers, was published in 2017 and debuted as a #1 global bestseller. Within the first three months it sold a million copies…
$19 – $55
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