The Portland Zine Symposium PSU’s Smith Center, tabling occurs August 5-7, Fri 12-5 pm, Sat 10 am- 5 pm, Sun 11 am-4 pm; www.pdxzines.com for a full schedule of other events No demographic is more evocative of Portland’s art-for-the-love-of-art mentality than its zine culture. Toiling away with letterpresses, stencils, home printing devices, and many other […]
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Willamette Writer’s Workshop
Willamette Writers Workshop Embassy Suites PDX Airport Hotel, 452-1592, August 5-7, all day; prices vary, see www.willamettewriters.com Listen up, aspiring writers! This year, the organizers of the Willamette Writers Workshop have made a very smart move: They’ve planned a “Pre-registration” the night before the main event, a three-hour time block that gives all you procrastinators […]
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VERB
VERB Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont, 227-2583, Thurs-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, through August 7, $12-22 For last summer’s first installment of VERB, an evening of one-acts adapted from literary short stories, Portland Arts and Lectures selected works by Raymond Carver, an author whose blue-collar weirdness proved difficult to translate to the stage. This […]
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Lonnie Bruhn
Lonnie Bruhn appearing with the Trashmouth Comedy Tour, Sabala’s Mt. Tabor, 4811 SE Hawthorne, Friday July 16, 9 pm, $8 With stories about having a jelly jar stuck up his ass, and a rant that merges his mild case of cerebral palsy with “shit porn,” it’s become gradually clear that Portlander Lonnie Bruhn is a […]
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Just Add Water/West
Just Add Water/West Winningstad Theatre in the PCPA Building, 1111 SW Broadway & Main, 274-6588, Fri-Sun, times and prices vary–see www.pcs.org for info In a town parched for decent, original, new theater scripts, the folks at Portland Center Stage provide a yearly oasis at which to quench your thirst, if only for a brief moment. […]
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Checking In With James Moore
Checking In With James Moore Known for his considerable, jack-of-all-trades talents as a writer, director, actor, and even light designer, James Moore is one of four original founders of defunkt theatre who remains a fulltime member. And the ensemble is doing better than ever. defunkt was recently listed in American Theatre magazine as one of […]
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Tin House Summer Writers Workshop
Tin House Summer Writers Workshop July 9-15, all readings at 5:30 & 8 pm, Cerf Amphitheater at Reed College, $15, www.tinhouse.org for full schedule Tin House is a local quarterly literature review that brings in enough writings from renowned writers to make it one of the best of its kind in the country. No mean […]
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Steffen Silvis: The Interview
For years, Willamette Week theater critic Steffen Silvis has loomed over the Portland arts scene with reviews as uncompromising as they are heartfelt, and as irascible as they are well-spoken. But as the month of June winds to a close, so does Silvis’ decade-long reign at the WW–he’s been laid off. Fascinated by this turn […]
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Christian Bök
Christian Bök appearing at New American Art Union, 922 SE Ankeny, Saturday July 2, 7:30 pm, $5-15 sliding The term “sound poetry” is one that’s been kicked around for at least decades, and just last week I finally bothered to learn what it means. “[It’s] poetry that doesn’t use words for their meaningful content, but […]
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10 Tiny Dances
10 Tiny Dances Bernie’s Southern Bistro, 2904 NE Alberta, Sun June 26, 8 pm, $15 In 2002, local dancer/choreographer/school teacher Mike Barber had the idea that “defining your parameters can actually motivate your creativity because you have to solve a problem.” To explore the theme, he invited 10 dancer friends to choreograph works on the […]