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Book Collecting and Book Care. Why? How?

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

Save Your Books and Save Civilization. Scott Brown of Downtown Brown Books and Sophia S.W. Bogle of Save Your Books will give some practical advice about starting and building a book collection and helping your books with archival book repairs. Your books want you to come to this talk and you can even bring them along for Repair and Monetary Valuation. Sophia will be available to sign copies of the newly released: Book Restoration Unveiled, which will be for sale at the talk.

Free

TRUE NORTH STUDIOS OPEN HOUSE AND ARTS SWAP MEET

True North Studios 455 NE 71st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

We are finally ready to have friends over to our new space! FRIST FRIDAY OCT 4th 6-9 TRUE NORTH STUDIOS OPEN HOUSE AND ARTS SWAP MEET with DJ Domino Pop FREE Free to vend arts, crafts, vintage, vinyl, home goods, care goods, sellables etc! Come out to this new rad community event that will be reoccurring every 1st Friday for the rest of 2019. Vending is 1st come 1st serve Vendors need to bring their own tables, chairs, displays etc. Shoot us an email at Hello@truenorthstudios.com to lets us know your coming -or- just show up ✌ Membership and Studio Space Available! Visit truenorthstudios.org .

Free

3rd Annual East Portland Arts & Literary Festival

Orchards of 82nd 8188 SE Division St, Portland, OR, United States

Will we see you at 3PALF — oops, we mean, EPALF? Our third annual festival featuring artists and cultural workers of color will animate two community hubs in East Portland: Orchards of 82nd (O82), APANO’s brand-new home and community space, and Fubonn, the largest Asian grocery store and shopping center in Oregon! Spanning October 4-5th, EPALF will feature a spectrum of live performances, interactive creative activities, a full family-friendly lineup, and more at O82, plus our hallmark Book & Craft Fair at Fubonn. Join us in celebrating local artists, entrepreneurs, and small business owners in East Portland through this signature event. Suggested donation is $5, and no one will be turned away from lack of funds. Hosted by APANO’s Arts & Media Project. WITH PERFORMANCES…

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Free – $20

24 Hour Comic Book Day @ I Like Comics

I Like Comics 1715 Broadway St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Bring your own supplies and celebrate 24 hour comic book day with us: a challenge event where we will be completing 24 comic pages in 24 hours! It'll be a potluck, so bring some food or snacks to share! We'll have blow up beds for power naps, and rotating sales on things in the store throughout the event. We have over 50 seats available, so bring your friends!

Free

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.

Free

PDX October Happy Hour

The Pied Cow Coffehouse 3244 SE Belmont Street, Portland, OR, United States

It's our regular monthly meetup. Let's chat, have a drink, talk about what we learned at September's Red Pencil conference, and enjoy time with our fellow editors. Held at Pied Cow Coffeehouse (3244 SE Belmont St., Portland, Oregon). Open to all editors. Free to attend; food and drink available for purchase Contact host Alison Cantrell (alisonjcantrell@gmail.com) for questions and more information.

Free

Raise Your Pen

Vitalidad Movement Arts & Event Center 116 SE Yamhill Street, Portland, OR, United States

Save the date and celebrate 20 years at Write Around Portland's Annual Party with a purpose! Raise Your Pen on Friday, October 11, 2019 | 6-9:30 pm Vitalidad Movement Arts & Events Center | 116 SE Yamhill St. Portland, OR 97214 Meet Featured Writers from our past 20 years Plus Wine Wall | Silent Auction | Live Auction | Special Appeal Tickets: $55 General Admission | $110 Supporter | $1250 Power of Ten Prices increase after September 1. https://writearound.org/events/raise-your-pen/ Thank you to our generous sponsors! ¿Por Qué No? Taqueria AHA Agency Great Escape Publishing Beneficial State Bank The Commerce Bank of Oregon Box Lunch Design

$55

Monthly Story Swap

Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capital Highway, Portland, OR, United States

JOIN US AT OUR STORY SWAPS THE SECOND FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH  -- SEPTEMBER THROUGH MAY The Portland Storytellers' Guild invites you to join us at the Multnomah Arts Center (Room 30 - parking available behind building) for a Story Swap and Potluck beginning at 6:30PM. It is open to the public, free of charge, and is for tellers and non-tellers alike. (Some months we may be able to offer a mini-workshop at 6:30 so come knowing that may or may not happen depending on other circumstances.) The Story Swap is a great time to visit with others that love stories. Here you will hear stories from well experienced tellers and those telling for the very first time, and all of the stops along the way…

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Free

Dovesong Labs Salon Series 003

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our 3rd & most HAUNTED salon yet! featuring: Casey Rocheteau was born on Cape Cod, and raised as a sea witch. They are an author & visual/sound artist living in Detroit, Michigan. Rocheteau often works with primary documentation and collage in what they call a haintological practice. This fixation upon specters of the past haunting the present//living impact upon the future informs their work across genres. They are a Callaloo Writer’s Workshop, Cave Canem, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference fellow and, a former Writer in Residence at InsideOut Literary Arts in Detroit. In 2014, Rocheteau created the Shrine of the Black Medusa Tarot. Their second poetry collection, The Dozen, was released on Sibling Rivalry Press in 2016. Winner of inaugural Write A…

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Free

Oregon Battle of the Books Trivia

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

Test your OBOB knowledge in a fun and relaxed atmosphere! We will be playing trivia-based games featuring questions from this year’s 3-5 division OBOB reading list. Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun and get a little extra practice before the battles begin.

Free
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