Today’s Featured Book Event:

Literary Extravaganza & Moore-Walt Curtis Benefit (Berbati’s Pan, @8:00pm, $10, All Ages): A proclamation released by Portland Mayor Sam Adams states, “civic-minded friends are uniting to stage benefit performances, film screenings, and an auction of fine-art and literature to launch the Curtis Legacy Initiative to reestablish his personal studio and residence, and consolidate his regional and international reputation.”  This extravaganza features: Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen, Monica Drake, Tom Spanbauer, Matt Love, Walt Curtis, Dan Rafael, Barbara LaMorticella, James Honzik, Dusty Santamaria, Larry Yes, Richard Moore, and King & Moore.

Other Book Events Today:

Storytelling w/ Eric Kimmel (A Children’s Place Bookstore, @2:00pm): Local storyteller and ACP favorite Eric Kimmel. If you’ve never heard Eric tell a story, you’re missing out. And if you have, you know you don’t want to miss this!

Create Your Own Comic Book (Sellwood-Moreland Library, @3:00pm): We all have seen them, we have all read them, but not all of us have created one! This workshop will take your knowledge of cartoon creation to the next level! You’ll learn about the different parts of a comic book, how to write it, how to plan it out, and how to bring it all together! It is time to see your characters and stories come to life on the action filled pages of a comic book. Ideal for kids 6-12.

First Thursday: The Sea Beasts (Reading Frenzy, @6:00pm): Join us this 1st Thursday for Sea Beasts by our very own Harlan Mahaffy! Mr. Mahaffy has made limited edition prints from a series of 14 original works on paper for your consideration. Sea Beasts aims provide an antidote to the tide of cuteness overwhelming our fair city with big eyes, fluffy kittens and precious moments by celebrating the more humble and homely creatures among us. Harlan Mahaffy is an artist, illustrator and print maker based in Portland, Oregon. This is event is free and so is the beer! Exhibit will run through the month of July.

First Thursday: Polaroids (Floating World Comics, @6:00pm): This July our exhibit will feature photographs shot on Polaroid or instant film.  For a while in 2008 Polaroid film was actually discontinued but now it’s back.  As Polaroid users will testify there’s something magic about the lighting and picture quality of a Polaroid, as well as the instant gratification.  This July 1st Thursday we’ll display the work of over 10 photographers, most of whom are from Portland.  We will also have enlarged digital prints of some of the images for sale.

First Thursday: Ink and Impact (Powells City of Books, @6:30pm): The Basil Hallward Gallery is pleased to present original broadsides from ten Northwest book artists. These broadsides feature writing from participants of Write Around Portland, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming lives and building community through writing. Artists include Inge Bruggeman, Barbara Tetenbaum, and Sandy Tilcock.

Bill Cameron (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): Set in Portland, Day One (Tyrus Books), Bill Cameron’s follow-up to the novels Chasing Smoke and Lost Dog, features a retired homicide detective, about to give up on life, who helps a woman escape her abusive past.

James M. Tabor (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Blind Descent (Random House) is James M. Tabor’s thrilling epic about “supercavers” who contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more, while trying to find the bottom of the world.

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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.

Image credit Broken Hours.

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