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OLIVIA GATWOOD Life of the Party Tour with Ari Chi & special guest Cailin Nolte

Star Theater 13 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Olivia Gatwood has received national recognition for her poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. As a finalist at Brave New Voices, Women of the World and the National Poetry Slam, Olivia's performances have been featured on HBO, Huffington Post, MTV, VH1, and BBC among others. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine, The Winter Tangerine Review, Poetry City U.S.A., Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and The Missouri Review. Her Amazon Best Selling collection, New American Best Friend, reflects her experiences growing up in both New Mexico and Trinidad, navigating girlhood, puberty, relationships, and period underwear. Olivia is a full-time touring artist, and has performed internationally at over two-hundred…

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$15

Sweet & Greet

Vintage Books 6613 E Mill Plain Blvd, Vancouver, WA, United States

Come visit with Kate here at Vintage Books! She has 2 new books, A Cup of Holiday Fear, and Beyond a Reasonable Stout. The Sweet & Greet is a drop-in style event. Book signing, photo opportunities, tastings, and Bakeshop & Cozy Mystery merch! This event will be free & open to the public.

Free

Kids’ Storytime

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

Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Truman by Jean Reidy.

Free

Melissa Febos – Written on the Body: Oct. 5-6

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

When: October 5th+6th, 2019:: 11:00am - 4:00pm Where: The Corporeal Center; 510 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97210 Cost: $450 Desire drives any story worth telling. One of the most notoriously difficult forms of desire to write is the sexual. As Audre Lorde wrote, “The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.” To write scenes that remove sex from patriarchal structures means to (re)place them in the context of their inhabiting bodies and realities, to engage topics of identity, gender, family, politics, history, and, yes, the nature of love and longing. That is, writing about sex and sexuality is an exploration of our humanity. It is a craft issue. It is a…

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$450

Drag Queen Story Hour

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

Children of all ages and adults are invited to Drag Queen Story Hour, a family celebration promoting inclusivity and creativity, and featuring special guest Clare Apparently, who will be reading Pink Is for Boys by Robb Pearlman, Harriet Gets Carried Away by Jessie Sima, and Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley. Created by Michelle Tea, Drag Queen Story Hour now happens regularly all over the world. This event is proudly cosponsored by Q Center, the largest LGBTQ2SIA+ community center in the Pacific Northwest. Come join us!

Free

Ladies, Wine & Design: Special Risograph Workshop *Waitlist Available*

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an extra special Risograph Basics, Collage Experimentation and Mark Making workshop organized through Ladies, Wine & Design Portland! REGISTER HERE! About the Workshop Want to learn what Risograph printing is? Want to meet others who do too? Come and learn all about the basics of the Risograph in our two-color introduction workshop! The workshop will kick off with a Show & Tell of exactly what a Risograph can do with a printing demo, print and zine samples and a general exploration of how we can get the best results from this amazing printing machine. Participants will collaborate in groups of 2 to create an edition of 2-color 8.5x11 prints, plus you’ll take home one print from all of the other workshop participants (your…

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$35

Over the Garden Wall: Circus Friends signing with Jonathan Case

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

It's not all laughs and peanuts for Wirt, Greg, and Beatrice when they stumble upon a circus in the Unknown. What starts as good fun with Greg reciting Wirt's poetry for the circus' audience quickly becomes a dangerous situation when the Ringmaster sets his eyes on Beatrice to be his next star attraction. Wirt and Greg must work together with past-his-prime Strongman Frederico and down-in-the-dumps clown Paola to infiltrate the circus and rescue Beatrice. Join Eisner Award-winning writer Jonathan Case (Before Tomorrowland) for a launch party for the latest installment of the Over the Garden Wall series! Snacks! Drinks! Sketches!

Free

Wordlights Poetry ft. Michael Haeflinger

Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by NovaPDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday, October 5th, we'll have a feature from Michael Haeflinger and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Michael Haeflinger Originally from the Midwest, Michael Haeflinger is the author of two chapbooks, Love Poem for the Everyday (2011) and The Days Before (2014), both from Dog On A Chain Press. In 2016, he released Let’s Don’t Be Crazy, a spoken word and music album. He is the recipient of the Rutgers-Camden Award for Community Engagement (2013), The Amocat Award for Community Engagement (2017), and a Tacoma Arts Initiative Program Award (2015). He is the Executive Director for Write253, a literary arts organization in Tacoma, WA. *** Sign-ups start…

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Free

The Mystery Box Show – True Stories All About Sex

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

From vanilla to kinky, queer to straight, and everything in between, a night at The Mystery Box Show brings you tales of one-night stands, explorations into fetish, awkward first times, dark fantasies come true, and much much more. Storytellers have included bestselling authors, nationally touring comedians, adult film industry veterans, theatre professionals, sex toy experts, members from the kink community, students and people from all walks of life. Nothing here is too raw, too sweet, too strange, or too deep; it's all about the sex, and all about the story.

$22 – $57

“How do we become . . . us?”

Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR, United States

What influences who we are? Hearing our weird uncles debating the benefits of being a musician or a magician? Getting that poodle-head perm in second grade? Storytellers Jeanne Anderson, Will Hornyak, Rick Huddle and Kriya Kaping explore real and imagined experiences — bending a spoon, contending with a sixth-grade bully, becoming the first woman of color to rocket into space — in an evening of stories — “How Do We Become … Us?” Saturday,Oct 5  in the Clinton Street Theater at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Tickets at the door: $20; Buy on-line and save. General Public: $15 / Guild Members and their Guests: $12 Jeanne Anderson enjoys recalibrating familiar material to fit a different demographic. She usually regales schoolchildren with stories drawn…

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$15 – $20
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