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Portland Zine Symposium

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

More details about the festival will be announced as we get closer to PZS! PZS is FREE, ALL AGES, ADA ACCESSIBLE and KID FRIENDLY. Exhibitor list and programming schedule will be released in June 2019. Facilitators of Panels and Workshops will be paid this year, thanks to a Multnomah County Cultural Coalition grant, funded by the Oregon Cultural Trust. Apply to lead programming by May 31st, the application is here.   ::::THANK YOU to our Sponsors:::: >>Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, founded by Oregon Cultural Trust >> PNCA Library >> PNCA Office of Diversity and Inclusion >> Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at PNCA >> Collins Foundation The 19th Annual Portland Zine Symposium will be held at PNCA on Saturday July 20th and Sunday July…

Free

Archie Bongiovanni in Conversation With Sarah Shay Mirk

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

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, explores queerness in their shockingly frank and funny graphic novel, Mimosa (Abrams ComicArts – Surely). Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party, the crew decides to put on a new queer event called Grind — specifically for homos in their dirty thirties. Grind is a welcome distraction from their real problems: after a messy divorce, Chris adjusts to being a single parent while struggling to reconnect to their queer community. Elise…

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