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Portland Book Festival

Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland

The largest book festival in the Pacific Northwest returns Saturday, November 9, 2019 to the Portland Art Museum and neighboring venues. When:November 9 Cost:$15 Join Literary Arts for the annual Portland Book Festival, presented by Bank of America, returning on November 9, 2019. This one-day event features local and national authors presenting onstage events, pop-up readings, and workshops. Enjoy activities for readers of all ages, an extensive book fair, local food trucks, entry to the Portland Art Museum, and more. Gather with your community and celebrate our shared passion for books. Purchase your advance pass now. Adult passes are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Paid admissions includes a $5 book voucher redeemable at the book fair. Admission is free to youth ages 17 and younger and students…

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$15 – $20

All Our Trials: A book talk with Emily Thuma

Dismantle, Change, Build Center 14 NE Killingsworth St, Portland

We are excited to have Emily Thuma, author of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence to join us for a book talk in conversation with local community anti-violence activists. Please join us from 6-8pm at the Dismantle, Change, Build, Center for an engaging conversation, light refreshments, and an opportunity to meet and build with Portland community invested in anti-violence work and transformative justice. Books will be available for purchase. More about the book and author: During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anti-carceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners, and psychiatric patients…

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Free
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