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Grace Paley’s Life Stories with Judith Arcana

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

To ensure that you are able to join us for the event, please rsvp for all guests. Guests who are walk in on the day of the event are not guaranteed seats. On September 15, please join Judith Arcana, author of Grace Paley's Life Stories, for a conversation with poet and publisher Carl Adamshick, and for readings by both writers from the book. Grace Paley's Life Stories is the only biography of renowned author and activist Grace Paley and explores the roots of her political consciousness and traces her work as an activist as it grew into her work as a storyteller. It was recently reprinted in a glowing 2nd edition by Eberhardt Press in Portland. Arcana and Adamschick will discuss the importance of this…

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$8

The Siren Theater Improv Giants with monologist Chelsea Cain

The Siren Theater 315 NW Davis St, Portland, OR, United States

What happens when you take a handful of Portland's best improv comedians, the personal stories of a NYT Bestselling author, and put them on stage together? Total magic is what. Join us for a night of improv comedy inspired by the stories of the amazing CHELSEA CAIN. Author of One Kick ( which was made into a TV show called Gone), Man- Eaters, the comic book series Mockingbird, and so much more. And featuring the improv comedy of these Giants: Shelley McLendon (Artistic Director/ Owner of The Siren Theater, The Aces) Nicholas Kessler (Host of The Moth, Twist Your Dickens cast member at PCS) Kirsten Schier (Curious Comedy) Chris Williams (Broke Gravy) One night only! $10 adv/ $!5 doors 7:30 doors/ 8pm show sirentheater.com

$5 – $10

Laureen Nussbaum

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

To ensure that you are able to join us for the event, please rsvp for all guests. Guests who are walk in on the day of the event are not guaranteed seats. Laureen Nussbaum, talking about her book Shedding Our Stars, The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine.

$8

Noon Time Talk with Florence Grende

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

Painter and author Florence Grende, will read from her book, The Butcher’s Daughter: A Memoir, and discuss the rewards inherent in both learning and creating in later life. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine at age sixty, and published her debut book at seventy. A painter in her younger days, she began painting again five years ago and has exhibited her recent work in Mexico, where she currently lives, and in Sacramento, California. Florence was born in American Occupied Germany to Holocaust survivor parents and grew up in the Bronx. The Butcher’s Daughter: A Memoir, presents an unflinching account of what it means to be the daughter of survivors. The book has garnered several awards, most recently the…

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Free

Book Club for The Butcher’s Daughter: A Memoir

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us after our Noon Time Talk with Florence Grende to discuss her book The Butcher’s Daughter: A Memoir. You can purchase The Butcher’s Daughter: A Memoir on Amazon or at Powells. If we do not have at least five people RSVP'd 24 hours before the book club meeting, we will cancel it. We will make sure to alert anyone who signs up if that happens!

Free

Story Swap, In Terms of Music

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

Our Story Swaps are loosely based on The Moth, in that people tell true life stories. In October, in conjunction with our Leonard Bernstein at 100 exhibition, we have four diverse storytellers who have a range of musical experiences from Blues harmonica player, classically-trained singer, Ska-punk musician and jazz band leader of music from 1920s-40s—all coached by Cassandra Sagan, a professional storyteller and Maggid-Educator. This is a not to be missed evening! Our In Terms of Music Storytellers: Richard Basi is the band leader of The Cherry Blossom Orchestra a group of premier musicians who specialize in the jazz created during what they consider its most important period: the 1920s to the 1940s. Based out of Portland, The Cherry Blossom Orchestra were formed as a…

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$8 – $10

Oregon Jewish Voices – 20th Anniversary

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

Started in 1999, this annual event features readings by prominent Oregon Jewish poets and writers. The writers in the 2019 program, who span a range of genres will share selections from their work in OJMCHE’s auditorium. This year’s writers are Eric Flamm, Suzy Harris, A. Molotkov, Willa Schneberg, Sabena Stark. OJMCHE Director Judy Margles is the emcee for the evening.

$8 – $10

A Night Out with Buddy Wakefield

The Siren Theater 315 NW Davis St, Portland, OR, United States

BUDDY WAKEFIELD, three-time world champion spoken word artist and the most toured performance poet in history, returns to Portland with a few real special guests for the release of A Choir of Honest Killers, his first book of new work in eight years. You're not gonna wanna miss this. Come exactly as you are. Except babies. Don't bring those. Or children. I promise. $15 at door. www.buddywakefield.com

$10 – $15

A Reading of The Berlin Diaries

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

Hand2Mouth Theatre and OJMCHE present a theatrically staged reading of The Berlin Diaries, by Andrea Stolowitz, finalist for the 2017 Oregon Book Award. Performers are Erin Leddy and Damon Kupper, Directed by Hand2Mouth's Artistic Director Jonathan Walters. The great-grandfather of playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Following the complicated lure of genealogy, Stolowitz goes back to Berlin to bring the story of her unknown ancestors out of the archives into the light. The record keeps as many secrets as it shares; how do people become verschollen, lost, like library books? In this complex, contemporary drama about the search for home, fragmented heritage and Jewish diaspora, two performers scintillate between characters…

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$10 – $15

Shelter in Place, Rain or Shine Outdoor Opening

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

Social artist and activist Adam W. McKinney opens Shelter in Place in the windows and first floor gallery of Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 1, 2020. Shelter in Place, which in its entirety is viewable from the sidewalk surrounding the museum, is a film, photography, and dance-based interrogation of the social tenets of Sukkot—departing and dwelling, expressing and atoning, striking and shaking. A Black Jewish response to histories of oppression, McKinney’s Shelter in Place is an inquiry into social isolation and the physical and emotional effects of anti-Black racial violence. While the museum is closed, the multimedia installation extends into the museum’s first floor gallery and windows and is completely viewable both day and night from the…

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Free
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