LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Kids’ Storytime

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty.

Free

TELLABRATION™ Performance One Ocean, Many Shores: Stories Real and Imagined from Around the World

Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capital Highway, Portland

Told by Ingrid Nixon Sailors of long ago sailed the “Seven Seas.” But in truth we only have one ocean, one body of water that flows around our continents -- one body of water that essentially unites us all. Come aboard for a sea voyage with peripatetic storyteller Ingrid Nixon to explore stories and peoples of far-off shores. It’s an evening of folktales, true tales, myths and legends; after dipping your toe in this evening, the ocean will never quite feel the same. “These are stories I really love,” says Ingrid. You will, too. TELLABRATION!™ is a worldwide evening of storytelling: a network of storytelling enthusiasts bonded together in spirit at the same time on the same day. In 1988 the event was launched by…

$15 – $20