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Cultural Connections: Celebrating Immigrant & Refugee Stories

New Expressive Works 810 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Cultural Connections: Celebrating Immigrant & Refugee Stories. (A program of New Expressive Works' "Our Cultural Voices" Series) NOTE: This event is organized by multi-cultural youth and aimed for youth but all are welcome to join and participate. WHAT: Cross-Cultural Youth-Driven Conversations ~ Community Art Making ~ Food ~ Performances Come join Youth Advocates for Immigrants and Refugees (YAIR) in a cultural celebration of immigrant and refugee art and stories. Be prepared for an empathetic story exchange, amazing art, and delicious food! PROGRAM: 2pm - DOORS OPEN, Community Mural Making 2:20pm - Intro and presentation by Belize Nishimwe (Champion 2019 Oregon Poetry Out Loud Contest) 2:30 - 3:45pm - Story Exchange Community Conversation 3:45 - 4:00pm - Food, Community Mural Making 4:00pm - 5:00pm - Cultural…

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Free

Magnetic North / True North Social Celebration

Magnetic North 2021 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

Come join us next Wednesday evening 6/26 for some fun and food. We want to celebrate all our friends, collaborators, and partners in crime! Come one come all! Beers by @montuckycoldsnacks and learn about the next iteration of our #makerspace @truenorthpdx

Free

Wordlights: Saturday Poetry Evenings

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

Wordlights Saturday poetry evenings presented by Nova PDX, Rocking Frog Cafe and hosted by Igor Brezhnev. On Saturday July 6th, we'll have a feature from Nani Jones and a long set poetry open mic! OUR FEATURE: Nani Jones Nani lives in Portland, Oregon where she is involved in many poetry platforms. An upcoming poet, with passion for social justice, she has been featured at The People’s Poet and is currently on Portland’s Slamlandia team. *** Sign-ups start at 5:30, show starts at 6PM. On first and third Saturdays each performer in the open mic gets 10 minutes, there are only 8 slots available and the list order is randomized. Come share your words and join us for a night of open mic, a great feature…

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Free

The Unseen: Open for Submissions

Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

The Quiet Crowd is having a huge art show and we are open for submissions! The Unseen is a curated exhibition showcasing marginalized artists in their personal work to freedom and self expression. We are looking for female, non-binary, and LGBTQ artists willing to share their personal journey’s as the Unseen, those who have been shut out or quieted by the greater artistic establishment. Here we may give voice to ourselves. We are looking for visual artists, acoustic performers, spoken word artists, or performance based works. The event will be open to the public and will include a private showing of the first scene of the Quiet Crowd. Have wine, food, and listen to La Vie En Rose with us in the garden. To submit…

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The Unseen

Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

The Unseen is a curated exhibition showcasing marginalized artists in their personal work to freedom and self expression. We are looking for female, non-binary, and LGBTQ artists willing to share their personal journey’s as the Unseen, those who have been shut out or quieted by the greater artistic establishment. Here we may give voice to ourselves. We are looking for visual artists, acoustic performers, spoken word artists, or performance based works. The event will be open to the public and will include a private showing of the first scene of the Quiet Crowd. Have tacos, desert, and listen to La Vie En Rose with us in the dining room.

Free

The Book Burger Reading

Belmont Books 3415 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

On August 10th, a group of local authors across multiple genres invite you to spend the evening with them. It's an invite unlike many you'll come across, wherein we want you to meet us for a bite to eat at Nick's Famous Coney Island to celebrate the last day of Burger Week before a reading at Belmont Books. After each author reads for about ten minutes, we'll head over to Rendez Vous down the block for a cocktail or tea. What we want is a community of readers who get to know the authors, find new ones, and branch outside their favorite genre–if not just to tell a friend. Belmont Books is a lovely, if not smaller bookstore. That means you we may be at…

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Free

Slamlandia Sept. Rocking Frog Slam ft. Stephanie Dogfoot

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

Join us for our SEPTEMBER Poetry Open Mic and Slam at our temporary first Thursday location - the Rocking Frog Cafe! This is a WOWPS qualifying slam! Doors and sign-ups are at 6:00 PM Get there on time to get a spot in the open mic or slam! Show begins at 6:30 PM. Rocking Frog Cafe 2511 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97214 This show is all ages. Please see our Accessibility and Safer Space info below. There is a $1-5 suggested donation. We will have an spotlight performance from the superb Stephanie Dogfoot! Stephanie Dogfoot is a queer spoken word poet and stand up comic from Singapore (and a few other places along the way). She has won national slam championships in Singapore (2010)…

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Free – $5

Book Happy Hour Sale

Belmont Books 3415 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

After a day of marching in solidarity in support of Global Climate Strike, we will open at 4pm today with Book Happy Hour. Stop by, warm up, browse books and sip our French 75 Punch. $2 off books on film, plays, and screenplays. $1 off all other books.

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