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Giving Tuesday Llama Pajama Party

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is GIVING TUESDAY and we're partnering with Penguin Random House as we bring you a special pajama party story time! Come on down in your cozy PJs and listen to some stories! Can't come to the storytime? You can still help! Drop off a new pair of PJs for children in need and PRH will donate books for every pair of PJs we collect. This is such a great program and is a nice kick off to the gift giving season. Purchase a new book at our shop to donate and we will match it. These books will be donated to local non-profits, SnowCap, My Father's House, and Gresham Reads!

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THE SLEEP GAS release party and art exhibit with Chris Cilla

Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR, United States

Chris Cajero Cilla is the author of the 2010 cult classic graphic novel, The Heavy Hand, and this new book from FU Press is a collection of the artist’s short stories created over the past decade-plus. Cilla’s absurdist humor takes center stage in this bouillabaisse of pieces that recalls the work of contemporary masters such as Matthew Thurber and Michael Deforge, as well as the unfettered id that permeates the great underground comix of the 1960s and 1970s. Cilla co-mingles a variety of styles and genres in the service of surrealist gems such as “Burp’s Law,” “Exqueezmeat,” and “Labyrinthectomy,” all of which will buoy you with a blissfully dull buzz, long after you’ve put it down. WHO: Chris Cilla WHAT: The Sleep Gas release party and…

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Authors Guild Portland Chapter Meet and Mingle

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

New Authors Guild ambassadors Cai Emmons and Gillian Klucas will be there to greet you as we launch our very first Portland Chapter event. Enjoy drinks and light refreshments as you get to know your fellow Portland authors. At this meeting we'll connect and plan ways we can help ensure a fruitful future for Portland's writing community. Please let us know if you plan to come by emailing portlandchapter@authorsguild.org

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Buckman Journal 003 Launch & Holiday Art Market

Bunk Bar - Water 1028 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Buckman Journal, a literary and art anthology features a wealth of short stories, essays, flash fiction, and visual art, all made by Portlanders. The third installment of Buckman Journal explores the way technology and media work with, for, and against our world. New issue out December 1st, 2019. Alongside the launch of Buckman Journal 003, Buckmxn Publishing is proud to host a holiday art market. Looking for unique gifts and want to support local artists and writers? Presto! Buckmxn has made it easy for you! Shop prints, stickers, craft items, original pieces, books, and more. Great deals and specials! All sales go directly to artists. Bunk Bar @ SW Water Ave. Thursday Dec 5. 6-9pm. Buy a sandwich. Have a drink. Browse art. Buy Buckman…

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Collage Night

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the return of Collage Night, on the second Tuesday of the month. Glue sticks, scissors and collage materials will be provided. Free and open to the public.

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MUTANT COMICS X-POSITION AND TRUNK SHOW

Books with Pictures 1401 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United States

X-Party! X-Music! X-Cake! X-Costumes! X-Travaganza! We’re feeling unprecedented levels of X-citement lately here at Books with Pictures, so we’re throwing an evening of X-treme frivoloty. Break out your Jubilee crossplay and come celebrate with us! In time for the release of the House of X/Powers of X hardcover, Eisner-winning critic Douglas Wolk will present a Quicksilver-speed history of all of the X-Men-related series and miniseries Marvel has published since 1963, and sing a song that names 150 of them. And we'll have sets of the best ones for sale!

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Book Club Holiday Party

Books Around the Corner 40 NW 2nd Street, Gresham, OR, United States

Join us for what we hope to be a tradition every year. IF YOU'VE ATTENDED A BOOK CLUB AT BOOKS AROUND THE CORNER IN THE PAST YEAR YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to attend our holiday party. December is a busy time a year so there will be no book clubs. We ask that all who attend wrap one of your favorite books new or gently used to participate in the holiday book exchange! We also would like to do a potluck so if you're interested in bringing something please email us at: info@booksaroundthecorner.com. We also will have a special sale during the party for all of you that have supported us and made our book clubs so special. We hope you'll join us for a…

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Celebrate the Holidays with AMA PDX, PPI & IPRC

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Join the American Marketing Association Portland Chapter, the Pacific Printing Industries Association, and the Independent Publishing Resource center to celebrate the holidays. We will have beverages and bites, plus D.I.Y. letterpress holiday cards. Join Portland’s marketers, publishers, printers and makers for some winter cheer! FREE EVENT, JUST RSVP AT THE LINK: https://ppiassociation.wildapricot.org/event-3599799

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Portland Correspondence Co-op

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

PDXCC is a monthly gathering where participants make and share analog correspondence in the great mail art tradition of Ray Johnson and Anna Banana: art and conversation through the mail. This uniquely democratic, DIY art form incorporates writing, drawing, collage, rubber stamps, faux postage, decorative tape, typewriters – anything goes, as long as it goes through the mail. Hang out, skill share and send the glorious results through the mail. Monthly events hosted by the Portland chapter of the Correspondence Co-op and Niko Courtelis. Basic materials will be on hand (scissors, glue sticks, envelopes’85), but you’re encouraged to bring whatever materials fuel your creative spirit. Free and open to the public, every third Tuesday of the month

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