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Writing from Real Life: Everyone Has a Story

The First Congregational United Church of Christ 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for our first Portland Chapter meeting of the new year on January 7, 2020 with New York Times Bestselling novelist, Rene Denfeld. With years of hard work and sacrifice, Denfeld went from unknown writer to award-winning, bestselling novelist. Join us as she explores how to tell your own story, with tons of practical publishing and writing advice. Rene Denfeld is the bestselling author of The Butterfly Girl, The Child Finder, and The Enchanted. Her novels have won numerous honors, including a prestigious French Prix, an ALA Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a Carnegie listing, an IMPAC listing, Oregonian best book of the year and more. A longtime death row investigator, Rene has won awards for her justice work, including a Break the Silence…

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Free – $5

Church of Film and Future Prairie present: Channel One

The First Congregational United Church of Christ 1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Church of Film and Future Prairie present: Channel One an evening of light and sound directed by Higher Feeling music by Jonathon Mooney, Casey Marx, Onry, Dashenka, Amenta Abioto, and a special guest visuals by Church Of Film projections by sarah sarah turner turner installations by Talia Gordon and Clamber poetry by Joni Renee Whitworth tea ceremony by Brianna Sas Our show is sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council!

$10

Celilo Collaborations: Sharing the Stories of a Place and Its People

Oregon Historical Society 1200 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The Native fishing community of Celilo Village was in crisis following World War II. Large dams, highway widening, and federal policies of termination and relocation conspired to remove Indian people from a place their families had occupied for more than 12,000 years. Stepping into this maelstrom were two women from very different backgrounds. Together, they forged an alliance that made a difference. Flora Thompson and her husband, Chief Tommy Thompson, fought to protect fish drying sheds, fishing stations, and Celilo Village homes for decades. Joining her was Martha Ferguson McKeown, a high school English teacher, community activist, and author of several local histories, including two children's stories about the Thompsons. Their intertwined stories, as told by historian Dr. Katrine Barber, illustrate the importance of cross-cultural…

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Queer PDXpressions Presents Sometimes You Gotta Say F#!K IT.

Rogue Ales & Spirits - Rogue Hall 1717 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Grab a Drink, Grab a Chair, Grab an Open Mind. We are so excited for our First show at Rogue Hall. We will have a sign up sheet starting at 7:45 pm show will start at 8:00 pm. we also have the pleasure of hosting Nicky

Free

See Me. iAm. HEAR. Creative Activation of Youth Voices of Color

Madison Street Plaza 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

IPRC is excited to partner with the City of Portland, I Am M.O.R.E, The Numberz.fm, NAYA Many Nations Academy, and the Portland Art Museum for event that is a part of the City of Portland “Supporting Community Healing with Art” Initiative. Saturday, July 31st join us from 12-4 PM in Madison Street Plaza (1219 SW Park Avenue) for poetry, printmaking, DJs, Open Mic, and free ice cream.

Free

Frank Wilderson on Afropessimism

PSU - Lincoln Hall 1620 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

PSU's Black Studies Department invites you to a discussion with Frank B. Wilderson III on his recent book Afropessimism. Wednesday April 13, 2022 | 6-8pm Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery―in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms―continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature not only in the United States but around the world? These are just some of the compelling questions that animate Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III’s seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness. Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of lyrical prose, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. It positions Wilderson as a paradigmatic thinker…

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Medicare for All Rally

Shemanski Park SW Park Ave. and SW Salmon St., Portland, OR, United States

We're back! Portland’s Medicare for All Rally returns July 30th, 12 noon, at Shemanski Park. Join us in celebrating Medicare’s 57th birthday! Get ready for speakers, music, tabling, and organizing. Our hope for this day is to inspire and help you form connections as you learn and take action in the name of healthcare justice and Medicare for All. Local artists will be screen printing, so be sure to bring a t-shirt! ASL interpreting provided. Masking is encouraged. Stay posted for a full list of rally speakers & performers! This is an important political moment. Reproductive rights and gender-affirming care are under attack, and the COVID-19 crisis has further exposed the broken state of healthcare in our country. Medicare for All is the first and…

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Queer PDXpression: Open Mic Spoken Word Poetry

Santé Bar 411 NW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Hey Babes Come Grab a Open chair a open beer and an open mind we will be at Santé bar this Thursday September, 29th Sign ups at 7:30 show at 8ish ASL interpreter available upon request. A Dynamic Space for words and visual art to Live, be, and own Queer identity

Free – $5

Hilary Plum

PSU - Shattuck Annex 1914 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Hilary Plum (she/her) is the author of several books, including the essay collection Hole Studies (Fonograf Editions, 2022), the novel Strawberry Fields (Fence, 2018), and the work of nonfiction Watchfires (Rescue Press, 2016), which won the GLCA New Writers Award. A collection of poetry, Excisions, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2023. She teaches at Cleveland State University and is associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. With Zach Savich she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. Recent work has appeared in Granta, Astra, American Poetry Review, College Literature, and elsewhere.

Free

Jessica Machado Reading

PSU - Lincoln Hall 1620 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR, United States

The PSU Program in Creative Writing is pleased to host a reading by Jessica Machado. The event is cosponsored by the School of Music, and is free and open to the public. Jessica Machado is a graduate of Portland State University's MFA in creative writing program. She is currently an editor at NBC News and was previously a staff editor at Vox, the Daily Dot, and Rolling Stone. Local, a memoir woven with Hawaiian history, is her first book.

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