Today’s Featured Book Event:
Free Film Screening: 16mm Beer Commercials (Ampersand, @9:00pm): Join Ampersand for an outdoor film screening on our back patio. We are partnering with Tom Robinson, a local film archivist & projectionist, for a screening of vintage beer commercials from his personal collection. We’ll have a limited number of chairs available, so feel free to bring blankets or lawn chairs. Free beer from Ninkasi Brewing!
Other Book Events Today:
Friends of Milwaukie Library Book Sale (Waldorf School Gymnasium, 9am-4pm): Thousands of books for sale! Proceeds support Milwaukie’s Ledding Library.
Mother Daughter Book Club (Hillsboro Main Library, @10:00am): A book discussion group for girls in grades 3-5 and their mothers or other significant women in their lives to read and discuss great books together. The group meets the third Saturday each month at 10 a.m. at the Main Library. New members are always welcome and no registration is required! June’s Book: Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M.M. Blume Cornelia, 11-years-old and lonely, learns about language and life from an elderly new neighbor who has many stories to share about the fabulous adventures she and her sisters had while traveling around the world.
Market Day Poetry Series featuring Peter Ludwin, Eileen Elliott, and Gail Moore (St. John’s Booksellers, @12:00pm): Curated by Dan Raphael and hosted by Christopher Luna, the Market Day Poetry Series features new poets every Saturday at noon from June through September. This weeks featured readers are Peter Ludwin, Eileen Elliott, and Gail More.
Eating Local (Pastaworks, @2:00pm): Eating Local (Andrews McMeel) is a stunning cookbook with 150 recipes focused on incorporating more local, fresh ingredients in your kitchen, along with the inspirational stories of 10 CSA farms around the country. Author Janet Fletcher will be joined by one of the farmers featured in her book. Cosponsored by Edible Portland.
Regretsy (Powells City of Books, @2:00pm): Based on the eponymous hit blog and arranged in categories such as Decor, Pet Humiliation, and Christmas, April Winchell’s Regretsy (Villard) showcases the best of the worst handcrafts gone wrong, ranging from the hilariously absurd to the purely horrifying.
The Q Poetry Night with Tara Hardy (The Q Center, @6:00pm, $5 suggested donation): Join us for a night of queer poetry with one of Seattle’s best queer poets Tara Hardy. Tara will open the evening with a short poetry workshop and then lead us into the rest of the night’s fun! Further on, the event will have Q Poetry’s feature poets form the NW perform their best works, as well as an open mic for everyone else who would like to get up on the stage and share their work with the PDX audience.
Amanda Howells (Barnes & Noble-Clackamas, @7:00pm): Join us to welcome young adult author Amanda Howells as she presents her debut novel, The Summer of Skinny Dipping, the story of a teen trying to cope with a summer that hasn’t been what she expected. Fans of Sarah Dessen’s books will love this book!
Sister Spit Eurotrash Benefit (Mississppi Pizza Pub, @9:00pm): Queer zinesters, novelists, & musicians perform alongside Michelle Tea to benefit Sister Spit’s 2010 Eurotrash Tour For more info check out the Sister Spit website.
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You can find other events on your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County, and the rest of this weeks Portland book events here.
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