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Everybody Reads: OLGA TOKARCZUK’S THE BOOKS OF JACOB

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The 2022 Levy Event The Sixth Annual Levy Event at Portland State University Everybody Reads: OLGA TOKARCZUK’S THE BOOKS OF JACOB We invite you to read Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now translated for the first time into English, and attend a worldwide discussion of the book guided by our distinguished panelists, held on Zoom. HOW TO PARTICIPATE: 1. Read the book. Go ahead and start reading! The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk is widely available! Purchase through your favorite bookseller! 2. Register. This event is free with prior registration and will be held on Zoom. Please go to our registration page. 3. Log in on May 15 and participate in the community-wide discussion. About the book and its author Poland’s literary star Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.…

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Write Now Online: The Narrative Palimpsest w/ videos by Lidia Yuknavitch (Introvert Ongoing)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Write Now: The Narrative Palimpsest - a Four-Week Online Creative Incubator Extrovert Version Begins Saturday, March 13th What is a Narrative Palimpsest? pal·imp·sest /ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/ noun: palimpsest; plural noun: palimpsests a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. 


something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Origin: mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin ‘again’ + psēstos ‘rubbed smooth’ A narrative palimpsest is a story that carries LAYERS of meaning; meanings that carry the trace of each other a layer at a time, like an onion or something being uncovered through more than one strata. As if an idea or…

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A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN JENNINGS AND DAMIAN DUFFY

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Join Comics Studies and the Portland Center for the Humanities at PSU for a conversation with John Jennings and Damian Duffy, co-collaborators on Black Comix Returns and the graphic novelization of Octavia Butler's prescient dystopian novel Parable of the Sower. John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings' current projects include the horror anthology Box of Bones, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy), and the Eisner-winning, Bram Stoker Award-winning, New York…

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FE Magazine Reading

North Star Civic Foundation 1016 SW Clay St, Portland, OR, United States

Fonograf is holding a reading for their recent magazine FE! Readers: Ryan Mills, Harper Quinn, Charles Valle, Megan Savage, Joshua Pollock, Veronica Martin.

Free

Trivia Night

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

Trivia is conducted hybrid online and in person. Join us at the bar or join us through Zoom. This is one of our most popular events. Come early to make sure you get a table, and come early so that you can order food and drinks and get settled in time. It is also important to come up with a clever team name. If you come as a single person or a pair and are looking to make new friends, let us know and we will place you with welcoming regulars, or we might place you with other new folks. Trivia night is a great way to make new friends, and they will be sure to be good people since Publiners are quality folks. The…

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Open Mic

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

This is the open mic that used to be at The Attic Institute.  Hosted by Sarah Bokich

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Reading: Space Toucans on the Patio

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

The Space Cocaine gang is back for another spectacular reading event as they rebrand themselves as something more family-friendly: Space Toucans. Well, until they get to the stories, which are full of horrible hijinks, terrible people doing not-quite-as-terrible things, and talking animals. Join us for an evening of hilarity and awkward pauses.

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Comics Jam Sessions

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

Comics Jam Sessions Register here *This workshop is in-person. Masks + Proof of Vaccination/Booster Required In this 4-session comics workshop we will play with drawing, comics, making, and idea generation through collaborative creation, games and prompts. We will take advantage of being in space together to make things as a group and use each other as inspiration and co-artists. By the end of this workshop you’ll have more tools to create comics at home and maybe even the beginnings of a longer project. Taught by Marissa Perez Sundays, May 15th — June 5th

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Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma with Janice Lee —Begins June 5th

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma June 5 - July 2, 2022 (Synchronous Zoom sessions Mondays 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27) ***SOLD OUT! Email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com to add your name to the waitlist*** “What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James “How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong "Death needs a…

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Book Release Party: Wounded Faith: Understanding and Healing from Spiritual Abuse

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

Dr. Kenneth Garrett is a contributing author of a new book published by the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA). "Wounded Faith" is the answer to a growing number of individuals, approaching ICSA for help in recovery from Christian churches that operate in a cult-like manner. Ken will present several readings and will be available to sign both this new book as well as his previous book (which was published during covid and wasn't able to be celebrated!)

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