Today’s Featured Book Event:
Mortified PDX 2nd Anniversary (Someday Lounge, @8:30pm, 21 & Over, $12 door): Part comedy, part theater, part therapy. True tales ripped from the pages of real life! Mortified stars everyday adults sharing their most embarrassingly real teenage diary entries, poems, love letters, lyrics and locker notes… in front of total strangers. Featuring a distinct lineup of local performers – it’s never the same show twice! Join us for the follow-up to our sold out shows this past June! Online tickets are sold out, but a handful of tickets will be available at the door. Get there early to get yours!
Other Book Events Today:
Harvest Bounty from Thailand to the Hopi Mesas to Mexico (Rockwood Library, @4:30pm): Join chef and author, Jean Johnson, as she shares simple measure-free recipes and insights from her travels.
The Next Best Thing: An Evening with Antonio Sacre (Laurelhurst Club, @7:00pm, $10): Antonio Sacre, an award-winning solo performer, storyteller and author, delights audiences with touching and humorous bilingual stories, as well as challenging solo theatrical performances. His repertoire includes stories of growing up biculturally in a Cuban and Irish-American household. Sacre inspires his audiences to read, gather their own family stories, and become storytellers themselves. This performance contains adult content and language.
Brom (Powells Books at Cedar Hills, @7:00pm): Beautifully illustrated by the author with haunting portraits and indelible images, Brom’s The Child Thief (Eos) is a daring novel of darkest contemporary fantasy that will haunt and exhilarate any reader who agrees to follow Peter on his desperate crusade.
Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills, @7:00pm): This month we welcome author Jessa Slade to our discussion of her book Seduced by Shadows. Join us!
Cranioklepty (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Fully illustrated with some surprising images, Colin Dickey’s Cranioklepty (Unbridled Books) is a fascinating and authoritative anthology of real-after-life gothic tales about those who seek to possess the skulls of the famous dead.
We Live Here! An Evening of Music, Words, Images and Stories (Airplay Cafe, @8:00pm): This is what we share what the songwriters, filmmakers, poets, painters, writers, photographers, composers, dancers and other storytellers who call this place home have in common. In wine they call it the “terroir” that mix of dirt, rain, sun, wind and water that makes one vineyard’s grapes taste different from another’s. And the territory shapes its artists, too. Seeps into our tunes and our dreams, inspires us, connects us whether we are native or transplant. It runs deeper than genre or musical style. When you love a place, its story can’t help but make its way into your own, and you can feel its current in the work. Please join us as we bring our music and lyrics, our instruments and voices, our still and moving images, our poems and original stories together to explore our terroir and yours.
Featuring the music of — Darrell Grant & “On The Territory” (w/ Cameron Morgan, Sam Howard, John Nastos, Ji Tanzer & Maureen Kelly Frary) — Singer/songwriter Kabir Green (w/Jed Wilson, Sam Howard & Russ Kleiner); and the musical stories of — Writer/narrator Lynn Darroch (w/Jonathan Swanson and photo displays by Judy Blankenship and Douglas Yarrow)
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.
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