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MIND & MOUTH Open Mic

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

$0-5 for youth (under 25), $5-10 for adults (25+)* Friday, February 22nd, 7-10pm First Mind & Mouth Open Mic of 2019! You know the deal: Performances by youth (10-24)! Folks of ALL AGES encouraged to come and listen! Performance sign-up will be available at the event! We'd love to see written and performance work of all forms shared - spoken word, slam poetry, monologues, acoustic music with written lyrics, hip hop, collections of words that can't yet be defined by category, etc. *Enrollment and sign in are not required for this event. Enrollment (open only to folks 24 and under) is required for the majority of our programming. If you're a young person and plan to come back, you should enroll! For more details check…

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Free – $10

WORD! All Ages Poetry Workshop

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

This will be a workshop centered around finding the power in the little details of our lives, and piecing them together to create a piece that shows how much every part of who we are matters, and deserves to be heard. Lets write, let’s perform, let’s create something impactful. All ages: free for youth, $5-$15 sliding scale for adults (25+). All proceeds go to the facilitator! Friday, March 8th 7-9pm About the facilitator: Bella is a local slam poet who competes and has performed at various events such as the WeMake Disrupt Conference, Invisible Spectrums, Ori Art Gallery, Intersect Fest, and various other pop up art events. She is 24 year old California native who found herself in Portland after a few things went wrong,…

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Free – $15

MIND & MOUTH Open Mic

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

You know the deal: Performances by youth (10-24)! Folks of ALL AGES encouraged to come and listen! Performance sign-up will be available at the event! We'd love to see written and performance work of all forms shared - spoken word, slam poetry, monologues, acoustic music with written lyrics, hip hop, collections of words that can't yet be defined by category, etc. $0-5 for youth (under 25), $5-10 for adults (25+)* Friday, April 26th, 7-10pm *Enrollment and sign in are not required for this event. Enrollment (open only to folks 24 and under) is required for the majority of our programming. If you're a young person and plan to come back, you should enroll! For more details check out our enrollment page!

Free – $10

Humor and Gag Comics: A Miss Anthology Comics Workshop (all ages)

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

Jenny Vu from the Portland Mercury will be teaching Humor and Gag Comics this year! Like to draw? Like making jokes? Gag comics are for you! In this workshop we’ll focus on putting words and images together in a way that is funny and unique to you. All ages, free for youth, enrollment required* Saturday, August 10th, 1-4pm *Limited to 30 participants on a first come, first served basis. Enroll here: https://missanthology.wordpress.com/august-10th-with-jenny-vu/

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Open Mic: MIND & MOUTH (all ages)

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

You know the deal: Performances by youth (10-24)! Folks of ALL AGES encouraged to come and listen! Performance sign-up will be available at the event! We'd love to see written and performance work of all forms shared - spoken word, slam poetry, monologues, acoustic music with written lyrics, hip hop, collections of words that can't yet be defined by category, etc. $0-5 for youth (under 25), $5-10 for adults (25+)* Friday, August 30th, 7-10pm *Enrollment and sign in are not required for this event. Enrollment (open only to folks 24 and under) is required for the majority of our programming. If you're a young person and plan to come back, you should enroll! For more details check out our enrollment page!

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Trans Voices Fringe Fest

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

This showcase features independent trans and genderqueer artists exhibiting nontraditional and unconventional vocal expressions. Organized by A Stick And A Stone! LINEUP: Cohabitation of Breaths - Abigail J Hansel of Yolk Sauna & June T Sanders (trans femme audio-visual ambient noise duo from "Idaho") Porch Cat (grunge-y pop punk / riot grrrl from "Bellingham") Sibila (industrial dancey synthy noise en español from "Olympia") DJ Vu (improv / experimental / noise from "Olympia") ChrisTiana Obeysummer (spoken word from "Seattle") Mx. Valentino (jazz-folk-punk) Robert Torres (poetry / spoken word) Sefer Raziel (glitch / noise / performance art) Myllo Mae (performance art) Dreams (synthy gay electronic beat rock) A Stick And A Stone (haunting choral experimentations) & More TBA In conjunction with TVF 2019 (a festival of trans…

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NaNoWriMo Hangout

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

Free Youth 10-24* Mon. Nov 25th, & Fri. Nov 8th, 15th & 22nd, 3:30-5pm National Novel Writing Month hangout hosted by our youth collective librarian Blaine! “A space where people (of all writing abilities) can bring writing projects they’ve been meaning to work on, or want to start something new, whether they’re planning on writing a novel or not!” *Sign-in and enrollment are required. Enrollment (open only to folks 10-24) is required for the majority of our programming. If you're a young person, you should enroll! It’s free! For more details check out our enrollment page!

Free

Mind & Mouth Workshop

Marrow PDX 7025 N Lombard St, Portland, OR, United States

Free Youth 10-24* Thursday, November 21st, 6-8pm Mind & Mouth writing workshops are back! Depending on the week, these workshops will be led by our Mind & Mouth facilitator Briauna, our rad youth collective member David, or other folks in the community! Check specific dates for details! Details for this specific date TBA, but the leader will be Briauna! *Sign-in and enrollment are required. Enrollment (open only to folks 10-24) is required for the majority of our programming. If you're a young person, you should enroll! It’s free! For more details check out our enrollment page!

Free

Marrow PDX: Mind and Mouth Open Mic

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Y’all we are SO excited to share that we’re hosting our first VIRTUAL MIND & MOUTH OPEN MIC!!!!!! Next Friday, May 29th, at 4pm on zoom!!! ✨ Sign-up will open this Friday (the 22nd) on our website, along with all the info you could need, but here are some basics! 🎤Open to anyone under 25 to perform 🎤Open to ALL ages to attend 🎤Any genre/style of writing welcome: poetry, short story, prose, music, slam, etc 🎤Can’t make it? Nervous about performing live on zoom? Pre-record your performance and send it to us! We’ll be sharing the zoom performances (if the performers want) plus any pre-recorded performances on our youtube after the live event! ✨ Like we said - there will be even more info, along…

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