Book Launch Party for Itty Bitty Writing Space
Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United StatesCelebrate flash fiction with readings and a Q&A with authors from the latest Flash in a Flash Anthology!
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Future Feels 2030 – Launch Party
Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United StatesCome by Outlet on July 20th from 6-9pm to celebrate the launch of Grace Mervin’s (@endoplasmic_reticulum) pop-up collaborative exhibit @futurefeels2030, as well as the release of the second edition of the book they wrote & self published about climate change & the future. There will be beverages, snacks, wonderful humans & plenty of feels! Please BYO cup so we can reduce waste! This project is entirely self funded, any & all support is greatly appreciated.
Free
Issue 1 Launch Party
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesSchool Lunch Zine is hosting a reading and Launch Party for their first-ever issue! Local contributors will read / describe their work and visual art. The first issue's theme is Food. We will have a table selling copies of issue 1 and we will also introduce our theme for issue 2. This event is free to the public - however, supporting our lovely host - Rose City Book Pub - and getting some food/bev is highly encouraged.
Free
“No Self-Respecting Woman” by Katherine Morgan – Book Launch
Dorsa Brevia 625 NW Everett Street #103, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin us for a slightly belated launch party for Katherine Morgan's "No Self-Respecting Woman." She'll be joined by readers Jewels, Marita DeLeon, and Jenna Marie Fletcher. Light refreshments as well. See ya.
Free
Oh Word!? Issue 001 Zine Launch [Cancelled?]
The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United Statesfor five-weeks local artists & writers have been navigating creative writing using, found text, erasure, collage & more. join us in our classes reading & launch the collective zine. we have been so honored to share space & reimagine the texts around us, come through & witness the magic of collaborative creation. sponsored by The Independent Publishing Resource Center & Dovesong Labs
Free
All Pinxy All Stars at Milepost 5
De-Canon Library / ArtHaus at Milepost 5 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin the Portland-based celebration(s!!) for the launch of Michelle Peñaloza's FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE! Join us on September 18th for an evening with All Star Pinxy writers, Christopher Rose, Armin Tolentino, Janice Sapigao, Jake Vermaas along with Michelle, in APANO's De-Canon Library at Milepost 5. Portland- and Northern California- based poets will join forces to combine readings and karaoke into an extravaganza of entertainment and literary import! Doors open at 6:30pm, and readings/performances will begin promptly at 7:00pm! All are welcome and the event is free of charge.
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Nailed Zine Launch
AFRU Gallery 534 SE Oak Street, Portland, OR, United StatesIt's really happening -- Nailed is going to print! Join us at AFRU Gallery as we celebrate the launch of Nailed Zine with and evening of artwork and readings from some of our favorite contributors. Our stellar lineup for the night includes: Amber Flame Sage Schick Robert Torres Jessica Wadleigh & the artwork of Sienna Morris Doors open at 7pm. Reading at 7:30pm Drinks and light snacks available See you all there!
Free
Fictional Film Club Book Release
Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United StatesThis is the launch event for the new book FICTIONAL FILM CLUB by MARK SAVAGE, published by DEEP OVERSTOCK. There will be: Readings, invocations of the impossible, a live ritual in tribute to art that will never be. With snacks 'n' booze, glamour 'n' shoes. Bring your friends/crushes/lovers and receive bonus Tokens of Cool* In FICTIONAL FILM CLUB, our narrator attempts to review a series of movies that don't exist. From here, he slips into an ever more obsessive and self-obsessive unreality of made-up movie stars, false features, and perverse productions. MARK SAVAGE is writer and musician from Portsmouth, England. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is the host of the MIND-MELD, CAPTAIN OF STORYTIME, and the founding member of the FICTIONAL FILM CLUB.…
Free
Kitchen Table Launch Party
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesJoin us for the launch part of the second issue of Kitchen Table, a new print and digital publication that connects adventurous souls, curious cooks, and enthusiastic eaters with talented writers, artists, cartoonists, and photographers who explore not only the how-to's of cooking, but the whys of eating.
Free
Manything Goes, at Mother Foucault’s
Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United StatesCome help dan raphael celebrate his new book, Manything, with this book launch at Portland's premier reading venue. Manything is 132 pages long, and comes form Unliekly Books in New Orleans. Lawrence Smith, editor of Caliban, wrote: "It is appropriate that Dan Raphael’s Manything has come out in the year of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. Raphael is one of the few poets since Whitman to have such a complete delight in the multiplicity of the world. His integration of the objects of man’s making with the wildness of nature is liberating. The poet’s body parts can function independently and often co-mingle freely with dirty streets, rain, bottles, squirrels, and the sun. Manything is a vision, one that moves us beyond our complacency, making us less…
Free
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