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Winter Poetry Festival

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

Warm your soul during the darkest days of winter at the first Winter Poetry Fest! We are crafting this event to be an inspirational refuge from the chaos of the holiday season. It will be full of diverse, local poets, chapbooks and broadsides for sale their authors; writing workshops and readings. In addition, there will be hands-on activities, writing games, a holiday card print-pull, cut-up poetry button making and more! Buy last minute holiday gifts for all your artsy friends while directly supporting writers, hide from your in-laws, feed your creativity with writing prompts and games, feed your mouth with delicious snacks, write a poem to put on the Poetry Tree and celebrate the solstice with your creative family <3. Hosted by the Independent Publishing…

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Free

Thick in the Throat, Honey presents: Iterations, Improvisations, & Collaborations

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Thick in the Throat, Honey (poet Claudia F. Savage and musician John C. Savage) presents an evening of daring collaborations with PDX composers and improvisers (Dan Sasaki, Jonathan Sielaff of Golden Retriever, Mikaela Schey, Rain Hobbs, Brandon Conway of halfbird, and Juniana Lanning of Fluff & Gravy Records) and local and visiting writers (Lauren Camp, Lezlie Amara Piper, Skyler Reed, and Jennifer Foreman), along with other special guests! As with all collaborations, even we don't know what will happen, but with this crew there will be fire and subversive delight. Contact: Claudia F. and John C. Savage Thick in the Throat Honey presents: Iterations, Improvisations, and Collaborations as part of "Just Off Site: Passages Bookshop Literary Festival" Poetry-music performance duo Thick in the Throat, Honey…

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The Feminine Era

PLACE 735 NW 18th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

"If I take it back, if I grab the narrative in my hands and crumple it until it is a completely new shape, what would it look like?" Portland art fanatics, prepare yourselves! Fused Creative, a woman operated art collective, is pleased to announce our upcoming April pop-up show, THE FEMININE ERA. Society dictates what it means to be feminine. The feminine has been relegated to second class citizenry; it has been painted as weak, compliant, and as a pretty decoration for empty vessels. For centuries, the cultural narrative demands that femininity is defined by taking up as little space as possible, and to be palatable to all others but ourselves. To put it plainly, WE REFUSE. In the year of our ladies Andrea Ocasio-Cortez,…

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$12.50
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