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Everything is Fine

Portland Wine Storage 306 SE Ash St, Portland, OR, United States

Portland friends and writers! Next Thursday, November 15, my friend Jeremy is hosting the second installment of a new monthly reading series/open mic in an underground lounge at Portland Wine Storage. 5-to-10-minute slots. Read your own unpublished/in-progress work, OR read from a published text that's been inspiring you lately. The idea is to read what we're working on and read what's feeding our work. Drink our drinks or bring your own. Snack potluck. Let us know if you're coming! Questions? Email jeremy.whistongmailcom.

Free

PSG Story Swap and Potluck – Open to the public

Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capital Highway, Portland, OR, United States

The Portland Storytellers' Guild invites you to join us at the Multnomah Arts Center (Room 30 - parking available behind building) for a Story Swap and Potluck beginning at 6:30PM. This is a monthly event on the 2nd Friday of each month -- from September through May. Open to the public, free of charge, and is for tellers and non-tellers alike. The Story Swap is a great time to visit with others that love stories. Here you will hear stories from well experienced tellers and those telling for the very first time, and all of the stops along the way in between. Many have come just to hear the stories and over time decided they wanted to tell a story. We often hear that we…

Free

Whitenoise Project 18: Two Year Anniversary

Art Haus 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR, United States

It's our 2nd birthday! Join Whitenoise Project as we begin our 3rd year amplifying Artists/Writers of Color and underrepresented voices, and celebrate POC-Centered Arts spaces with De-Canon's continued Residency at Milepost 5! We also want to make this into a potluck, cuz food, and also it was so great to see how the community showed up for each other at our 13th reading, last may for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Please bring a dish and label it with a description of ingredients! Also let us know what you're bringing and post pics if you can. With: Christopher Rose Maryam Miri Gabriel Mike Copperman Roland Dahwen Wu After the reading, we encourage people to attend Obsidian Stars - A Celebration of Black Lives and support…

Free

Partnered Reading with the Broader Community

openHAUS Coworking 5020 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

This is a partnered reading between writers in the greater Portland area and AWP attendees/published authors. 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m, better to come late than never, and we are serving food as part of a completely optional potluck! Each community member will read a piece onstage, then a conference attendee will read something they've written in conversation with their partner's piece. We encourage everyone, including people from marginalized groups of all kinds, to contact us at cedeptula@sbcglobal.net if you'd like to participate. So far our lineup includes Leticia Garcia Bradford, Elyana Ren, Alice Lavender Love, Yolanda Clay, Cristina Deptula, Rebecca Smolen, Doug Hawley, Sherri Schultz, Crystal Stone and Gina DeVries. Open mic follows if time permits. Contact: Cristina Deptula and Ross Robbins All are…

Free

PSG Story Swap and Potluck – Open to the public

Multnomah Arts Center 7688 SW Capital Highway, Portland, OR, United States

The Portland Storytellers' Guild invites you to join us at the Multnomah Arts Center (Room 30 - parking available behind building) for a Story Swap and Potluck beginning at 6:30PM. This is a monthly event on the 2nd Friday of each month -- from September through May. Open to the public, free of charge, and is for tellers and non-tellers alike. The Story Swap is a great time to visit with others that love stories. Here you will hear stories from well experienced tellers and those telling for the very first time, and all of the stops along the way in between. Many have come just to hear the stories and over time decided they wanted to tell a story. We often hear that we…

Free