The BACKFENCE Unhinged podcast records their first ever live show with incredible guests Mitchell S. Jackson and Nicole Hardy sharing delightfully unhinged stories. Hosted by Andrew Dicson and Frayn Masters, and presented by Portland Mercury and...
Join an essential lecture by the acclaimed Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath. Jared Cooney Horvath (PhD, MEd) is a neuroscientist, educator, best-selling author and expert in the field of human learning. His new book, The Digital Delusion: How Classroom...
Inspired by Davide De Pierroâ s newly released novel The Letters I Never Sent , his live show blends personal storytelling, humor, and audience conversation. Throughout the night, De Pierro will deliver a monologue and read selections from the...
Overview Portland Art Museum invites the community to join a Free First Thursday event, offering free admission to the museum for all, plus a Live Wire event as part of the Literary Arts Portland Book Festival. Visitors can take in the afternoon gallery pop-ups, the evening show, or both! Free First Thursday + Museum pop-ups 4:30 â 6 p.m. â Free, pre-show, pop-up performances will take place throughout the Museumâs galleries. Performers are poet and rapper Dessa, bestselling childrenâs...
SOLD OUT Author Talk & Film Screening with Jane Schoenbrun and SenLinYu at Hollywood Theatre Parallel Worlds Bookshop and the Hollywood Theatre present a special author conversation with Jane Schoenbrun and SenLinYu, celebrating the release of...
For the past three years, Cathy Whims and the Nostrana team have cooked their way through the entire collection, creating 19 dinners: one for each book. Now, for the Portland Book Festival, that journey comes to an end with Roma in Bocca the 20th...
A talk by Glynnis Fawkes. How does a cartoonist go about adapting a work of history, specifically Eric H. Clineâs 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? In this talk Fawkes will describe the process of interpreting Clineâs text in comics, an exercise during which she repeatedly asked herself how she might tell this story visually. Through page compositions and dramatizations in which historical figures (such as Ramses III) speak, she imagined characters for whom we have no record offering...
In celebration of Diwali, Molly and Meherwan Irani of Ashevilleâs celebrated Chai Pani join longtime friend Chef Troy MacLarty for a special evening at Bollywood Theater, featuring dishes inspired by Meherwanâs new cookbook alongside Bollywood...