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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Collaborative Valentines: Reading and Printmaking (Atelier Meridian, @6:00pm): Make art with your sweetheart! Ink-Filled Page is the featured guest at Atelier Meridian’s February printmaking social. Authors Claire Rudy Foster, Andrew S. Fuller, and Cecilie Scott will read their stories and then the audience is invited to make valentines! It’ll be an exquisite corpse of sorts, with the Atelier crew helping you print your valentine with viscosity monotypes on the etching press. Signup starts at 5:30 p.m., reading gets going at 6. We’ll start rolling up your plates at 7! We hope to pull between 20 and 40 monotypes in the space of three hours, no art experience required. Bring your sweetie! The event is FREE. You can take your print home for $5, and for that you will receive $5 off a book.
Other Book Events Today:
Dirty Queer Open Mic (In Other Words Women’s Books & Resources, @6:30pm, $1-5 suggested donation): Dirty Queer is an X rated open mic: a place to celebrate sexuality and strut your creative stuff! Hosted by renegade writer and poet Sossity Chiricuzio, Dirty Queer is proven itself to be a thought provoking evening of excitement, laughter and full body shivers. We’re looking for queer erotic entertainers of all sorts: dancers, jugglers, singers, musicians, comics, poets, storytellers, magicians, gender performers … if you can do it in 5-10 minutes or less (w/ minimal props/equip), this open mic’s for you! It’s highly recommended to bring your own folding chairs if you can, as we average 85 people/month. Everyone who attends has a chance to win door prizes from local businesses! IOW asks for a donation of $1-$5/person for this event, and more donations are always welcome. Caveats: 18+, consent is key, no hate speech.
Lecture: Gabor Maté “Understanding Addiction and Advocating for Reform” (Reed College, Vollum Lecture Hall, @7:00pm): Gabor Maté, staff physician at Portland Hotel Society—a residential harm reduction facility in Vancouver, Canada, and North America’s only supervised safe-injection site, provides a bold synthesis of his clinical experience, discussing cutting edge scientific findings in neurophysiology, brain development, and psychology, which go beyond simplistic and distorted nature vs. nurture debates. He proposes drug policy and treatment reform measures that take into account an understanding of brain physiology and interactive psychology of addiction. Maté is the author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. Co-sponsored by Reed chapter of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy.
Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): Maria Finn’s husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. As exhilarating as the dance itself, Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home (Algonquin) whirls us into the center of the ballroom dancing craze and imparts surprising insights about how to get on with life after you’ve lost in love. Booklist dubs it “a lively debut memoir, brimming with tango history and lore.” This event coincides with Portland ValenTango XIII.
Music + Words = Medicine (Mississippi Studios, @8:00, $15): The benefit event will feature words and stories by David Bragdon, Emily Chenoweth and Courtenay Hameister, and music from Horse Feathers, Sean Flinn & The Royal We, Alela Diane & Friends, and Celilo. Admission is $15 with all profits from the event being donated to Mercy Corps to assist in their ongoing efforts with the tragedy in Haiti.
You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County.
Image credit Ink-Filled Page.
