From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of February 20, 2010 through February 26, 2010 are:
Saturday February 20-
Bringing History to Life (Lewis & Clark College, Miller Center for the Humanities, @9:30am): Lewis & Clark College Special Collections in cooperation with the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation will host a series of three lectures by Stephen Dow Beckham, Gary E. Moulton, and Roger Wendlick. Recently all three of these individuals have spent time working on historical projects in the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections, and at this event the three will share their discoveries.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Ralph Ellison Book Release and Reading (Lewis & Clark College, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, @7:30pm): At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, “Invisible Man.”
In order to bring “Three Days Before the Shooting…” to life, John Callahan, the literary executor for Ellison’s estate, enlisted the help of Adam Bradley. A former student of Callahan’s, Bradley is now a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Together, Callahan and Bradley sorted through Ellison’s collected notes, files, and manuscript pages. A profile in The Washington Post details Callahan and Bradley’s collaboration as they edited the posthumous novel, released January 2010.
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Would America’s founding fathers have anything to say about modern fights over intellectual property? According to Lewis Hyde – poet, essayist, cultural critic—they would say plenty.
Hyde is in Portland this week to discuss his upcoming book, Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership. Wednesday night he addressed a bursting-at-the-seams crowd of more than three hundred. The event was held, brilliantly, in Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Swigert Commons. So as we listened to his talk about common ownership, we sat in the commons, a huge open area that stands between the individual classrooms. And we were surrounded by a variety of power-to-the-people poster art. I sat near the anti-apartheid wall.
Hyde is best known for his 1983 book, The Gift, a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of which came out in 2007 (yes, I realize those numbers don’t add up, but it was December of 2007). The Gift is a study of creativity in a market-driven world. I saw two professional artist friends at his talk, and both were raving about this book and urging me to read it. Which I want to, after hearing Hyde speak.
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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of January 30, 2010 through February 5, 2010 are:
Saturday January 30-
Ink Splash (Writers’ Dojo, @10:00am, $15 suggested donation): Ink Splash is an annual workshop for young writers offered in conjunction with the submission period for Ink-Filled Page’s Youth Issue. Join the editors and special guest poetry ambassador Celeste Thompson for an inspiring day of literary creation. The day will include poetry writing prompts as well as personal creation time. We’ll also workshop one of your poems or stories, highlighting your writing talent and offering suggestions for further exploration. Light refreshments will be provided. This workshop is geared toward young adults in grades 6–12. Bring: Four copies of a poem or story to workshop.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Peter Rock (Tualatin Public Library, @7:00pm): Not too long ago a man and his daughter were found living in Forest Park. Authorities recognized the care the father gave to his daughter and located a safe place for them to live. After just a few days, they disappeared, and no one knows where they went. Portland author Peter Rock has written a novel which takes this story and gives it completion. My Abandonment (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is a book that will remain in your thoughts for a long time. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear how an author takes a story and makes it into an unforgettable book.
Other Book Events Today:
Randall Kennedy (Lewis & Clark College, Legal Research Center, Student Lounge, @5:30pm): Join us in welcoming Randall Kennedy when he presents his lecture, “Is The Election of Barack Obama The Fulfillment of Dr. King’s Dream?” Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he joined the faculty in 1984. Professor Kennedy’s research focuses on racial conflict as it relates to legal institutions in American life. His 80+ publications include four single-authored books, one of which – Race, Crime, and the Law – won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1988.
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Portland is full of amazing readers, writers, publishers, and other literary folk. One of our goals at Reading Local Portland is to track down and interview every single one of them…well, okay, not every single one. But we are shooting to publish more interviews with local literati here on RLP.
Sara Guest, who kindly gave us today’s interview, is a poet and novelist who works with Write Around Portland. She is currently one of two William Stafford Writing Fellows (Jeff Coleman is the other), and she will be one of the hosts of this Sunday’s William Stafford Birthday Event at the Writers’ Dojo. Sara has recently taught at PNCA and will lead a Literary Arts Delve seminar in March and April.
Click through to read the interview and an excerpt of Sara’s work.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Willamette Writers hosts the Writer’s Faire (The Old Church, @6:30pm): The Writer’s Faire is an opportunity for local authors to promote their work, sell books and “sound off” on upcoming releases and/or events in the writing community. The event will feature table space where authors may sign/sell their books as well as an “open mic.” Doors open at 6:30 pm. Writers Faire is free to members of Willamette Writers and the public. Refreshments are served. Check out Teresa Bergen’s preview of the Writers Faire.
Other Book Events Today:
Helen Deutsch Lecture: “The Scaffold in the Marketplace” (Lewis & Clark College, Miller Center for the Humanities, room 105, @3:30pm): Helen Deutsch is a Professor of English at ULCA. Her talk is titled, “The Scaffold in the Marketplace: Johnson, Hawthorne and the Romance of Authorship.” She will discuss Samuel Johnson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and each author’s relation to (and anxieties about) the literary marketplace.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Floating World Animation Fest 2009 V.3 (Valentine’s, @9:00pm): Local and lo-fi, international and extrasensory, hand drawn, stop motion, cgi and puppetry, electricity and torches. This will be a brand new mix featuring the best of the past 3 shows, plus… you guessed it: some new shit you haven’t seen before! I’m gonna spin some music beforehand with visuals if you wanna come by early and get a good seat. FREE, 21+
Other Book Events Today:
“Native in America” Panel Discussion (Lewis & Clark College, Templeton Campus Center, Stamm, @4:00pm): Panelists include Sandra Sunrising Osawa (Filmmaker), Se-ah-dom Edmo (Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program), and Robert Miller (Lewis & Clark Law Professor, Author). Appetizers will be served.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Brian Brett presents Trauma Farm (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): Brian Brett’s farm on Salt Spring Island is affectionately known as Trauma Farm. There, he raises chickens, pigs, cows, sheep, and goats, tends an extensive orchard and vegetable garden, concocts fabulous meals from the bounties of the farm, and has various misadventures. This funny and thought-provoking memoir traces one day on Trauma Farm. In it, Brett explores the natural history of the small mixed farm, meditates on the perfection of the egg, offers critiques of factory farms and the slaughtering industry, muses on the uses and misuses of gates, and ponders the constant presence of death as he goes about the activities of farming — birthing lambs, contending with rats, helping an aged horse to his death. Underlain with deep knowledge of biology and botany, this erudite, witty, and passionate book is an unforgettable portrait of the issues all farms face in this age of industrialization and homogenization.
Other Book Events Today:
John Schouten presents Notes from the Lightning God (University of Portland, Buckley Center Auditorium, @6:00pm): John Schouten will sign copies and read from his new novel, Notes from the Lightning God.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Veteran Workers Tell Their Story: Our Living History (Central Library, @2:00pm): A time to honor workers who have served their nation in the armed forces. Come share your stories and listen to others talk about their experiences in the workforce. Hosted by NW Oregon Labor Council
Other Book Events Today:
They Might Be Giants Booksigning (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @4:30pm): Kids Go! (Simon & Schuster) is a dazzling, four-color sing-along book plus an animated DVD for children of all ages, from two-time Grammy Award winners They Might Be Giants.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
To Pay My Way With Stories: A Documentary about Write Around Portland (NW Film Center, Whitsell Auditorium, @7:30pm, $8): Write Around Portland is a Portland-based non-profit that reaches out to under-served populations and provides them with the opportunity to enroll in a free, rigorous, identity-specific, ten-week creative writing workshop culminating in a public reading and a published anthology. Director Brian Lindstrom’s TO PAY MY WAY WITH STORIES closely follows participants and explores how they transcend their difficulties—including cancer, HIV/AIDS, methadone, Down’s syndrome and poverty—as they find their voices. (49 mins.)
Other Book Events Today:
Eighth Annual Jefferson High School Multicultural Film Festival (North Portland Library, @4:45pm): The North Portland Library is proud to co-sponsor Jefferson High School’s Multicultural Film Festival showcasing eight diverse movies. Watch “The Reckoning” and join us for a disccusion following the show.
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Today’s Featured Book Event:
Charting Our Course: A Show About Education, Literacy, and Books (Reading Frenzy, @6:00pm): Tonight is the opening night for an exhibit featuring work from the Just Seeds Artists’s Cooperative. Justseeds is an artists’ collective that runs a webstore, a blog, and produces individual and collective work about political issues and for social movements. The prints in this show are all based on the written word, from portraits of authors to images inspired by poems and songs. The title of the show is taken from Malcolm X’s famous quote about education and culture: “Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future.” This event is free and all ages. Exhibit runs through November. Prints will be available for purchase. Free beer at the reception from Ninkasi!
Other Book Events Today:
NEGATIVE BULGE: Art & Zines by Islands Fold (Floating World Comics, @6:00pm): Luke Ramsey came down for the Zine Symposium this past July to represent the Islands Fold art collective that he started in Pender Island, British Columbia. One day after the fest he was hanging out and participated in a drawing session with local artists: Blaise Larmee, Kinoko (from Seattle), Sean Christensen & Theo Ellsworth. Little did they know, the collaborative jam session would result in a zine of ultimate greatness, Negative Bulge! We are very pleased to present original art from the legendary jam session as well as the new zines from Islands fold.
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From what we could find (please contact us if you have an event you would like us to add to this or future schedules), the local book events for the week of February 20, 2010 through February 26, 2010 are:
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