I had a tough time picking an event to highlight today. I chose the Arty Words reading at Disjecta with Curtis White and David Biespiel, but could just have easily gone with the Tapestry of Tales Tellabration and Finale at The First Unitarian Church, or tonight’s benefit show of “Holidazed” at the Artists Repertory Theatre:
Willamette Writers has bought out the house for tonight’s showing of the play “Holidazed” as a benefit for Books for Kids and Young Willamette Writers. This twisted and heart-warming holiday show, written by C.S. Whitcomb and Marc Acito, played to sold- out houses in 2008 and is back at Artists Repertory Theatre this year with a few new sparks. Benefit tickets are $36 for adults, $26 seniors (over 60 years old), and $22 for any students. This Saturday night performance seats normally sell for $47, so it’s also a deal!
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Arty Words Vol. III Featuring Curtis White with Special Guest David Biespiel (Disjecta, @7:00pm, $8): Disjecta and Tin House get all eco-politico for the next installment of Arty Words, the literary/art/music sensation too rambunctious to be cage free. Vol. III features Curtis White marauding through sustainability’s seamy underbelly. White’s intelligence, colored by righteous indignation, is a slippery and protean thing. He’s tackled Liberalism and contemporary Art Culture and in his newest book, The Barbaric Heart, he examines the hidden ills of the environmental movement.
David Biespiel is widely recognized as one of the leading poets of his generation, a liberal commentator on national politics, & also one of the nation’s experts in teaching writing. In 1999, he founded the Attic Writers’ Workshop as a haven for writers in Portland’s historic Hawthorne district. Among his publications are The Book of Men and Women, Wild Civility, Pilgrims & Beggars, & Shattering Air. You can read Reading Local’s interview with David Biespiel here.
Other Book Events Today:
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