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African American Read-In

Multnomah County Library - North Portland Meeting Room 512 N Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrate Black History Month with Black literature! Join us as community leaders, teachers, students and local celebrities read from their favorite works by African American writers. Fiction and nonfiction for children, teens and adults will be featured in a special gathering of good words from great writings. Community members are also encouraged to come and share words from their favorite works.

Free

OAT Open Mike

Oregon Adventure Theatre 4834 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR, United States

Hello friends! Oregon Adventure Theatre is hosting an Open Mic at the Peninsula Odd Fellows Lodge on February 8th at 6pm. Come bring your musical instruments, your poetry, your friends. Strut your stuff and celebrate each other's talents! The event will be hosted by singer-songwriter Ryan Westwood. The featured performers of the evening will be Ken Yoshikawa, who recently published his first book of poetry Monster Colored Glasses with Lightship Press and Ryan Westwood who wrote 4 songs in January he can't WAIT to share with you. At 5:45 signups will start, and anyone can sign up for a 5-10 minute slot to perform. Never performed before? Been killing it at venues all around town? Either way, we would absolutely love to host your talents…

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Free

Salon Skid Row Presents: The Revival

The Lombard Pub 3416 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR, United States

A monthly salon performance series, featuring poetry, prose, music, dance, and visual artists. Doors 7pm / Show 8pm. 21 & over. Free. Tuesday, February 11th: Micah Fletcher, Rob Gray, Robyn Bateman, Jenna Marie Fletcher, KMA Sullivan & Cinema Obscura

Free

Mother Winter’s Paperback Launch Party

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for MOTHER WINTER’s Paperback Launch Party 2/12! A boatload of PNW authors— Kimberly King-Parsons Chelsea Bieker Genevieve Hudson Leni Zumas John Beer Matthew Dickman Robert Lashley Cari Luna Rene Denfeld Mary Szybist —will each read a chapter of MOTHER WINTER. Shalmiyev will be reading a page of their work as a way of introduction and reciprocity. Signing to follow! Books will be available for sale by Another Read Through, who will have a table set up at The Stacks for this special event. (Also check out their online store at https://www.anotherreadthrough.com/)

Free

Heaux Stories: Part Deux at Polaris Hall

Polaris Hall 635 N Killingsworth Court, Portland, OR, United States

We invite you to attend what some people anticipate to be the “steamiest night of the year”- Heaux Stories:Part Deux. This show is the sequel to sold-out storytelling showcase Heaux Stories. Heaux Stories is a production that was created as a space for women of color and femmes to gather and share their most intimate sexual truths through the art of storytelling. This event was born with the intention of being as a sex-positive safe space that will foster intimacy within community by centering femmes of color through the empowering act of authentic vulnerability. Due to the overwhelming lack of diverse perspectives in Portland’s local storytelling art scene, this show is a production created out of necessity by renowned storyteller and The Moth Storyhour producer…

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$28 – $30

Black History Month Film Fest: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Multnomah County Library - St. Johns Library 7510 N Charleston Avenue Portland, OR 97203, Portland, OR, United States

During the month of February, St. Johns Library will screen four movies that highlight and uplift the Black experience in America. Watch Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (not rated).

Free

Ope Book Release and Signing

Bridge City Comics 3725 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Celebrate the release of "Ope," a full-length book of comics featuring Portland's beloved, cynically starry-eyed opossum! This 109 page full-color book includes many of the comics from Ope's first two years of publications in Willamette Week. Meet author Phil Gerigscott and pick up your signed copy of Ope, plus other works and wares by the artist.

Free

V is for Vulnerable: Teens Read Their Writing

Two Rivers Bookstore 8836 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join us as we hear local young talented writers read their work aloud! Participants, please keep your expert to between 3 and 4 minutes. All forms of writing and word-art are welcome. Two Rivers Bookstore and Weird Sisters Yarn aims to create a safe space where everyone's voice can be heard in a mutually respectful environment.

Free

Two Rivers Book Club

45th Parallel Wines 8527 N Lombard Street, Portland, OR, United States

Two Rivers Book Club is open to all readers who would like to discuss books in a casual group setting, perhaps even with a glass of wine! 🍷 📖 We meet the last Tuesday of the month at 45th Parallel Wines, 8527 N Lombard Street in St Johns, Portland Oregon. 6:30-8:00pm We will reveal the book for the following month at the end of the discussion. March's book is Lisa See's Island of Sea Women https://www.tworiversbooks.com/book/9781501154867 Hope to see you there-please call, message or order online! Did you know we now have Audio books available from our website? Ebooks coming shortly!

Sanctuaries

The North Warehouse 723 North Tillamook Street, Portland, OR, United States

Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz-classical chamber opera, Sanctuaries, with a libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Champion Anis Mojgani and directed by Alexander Gedeon. Focusing on personal stories from the Albina neighborhood, this latest site-specific commission challenges Portland as a community to truly listen to and acknowledge marginalized voices while addressing issues of white privilege, racial equity and inclusion, and economic disparity. Work DARRELL GRANT | Sanctuaries Creative Team DARRELL GRANT | composer ANIS MOJGANIi | librettist ALEXANDER GEDEON | director EZRA WEISS | conductor YUKI IZUMIHARA | set designer CARL FABER | lighting designer BRANIC HOWARD | sound engineer Vocalists DAMIEN GETER | bass-baritone EMMANUEL HENREID | baritone MARILYN KELLER | ITHICA TELL…

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