Power Tools is a community storytelling event exploring the ins and outs, mistakes, fears, and challenges of learning new skills -- especially ones related to building, fixing, and surviving. So often excluded from these categories of skills, both as amateurs and professionals, women and queer folks get the chance to step on stage and share their experiences with learning, practicing, failing, overcoming, and sometimes mastering (if you’re into that), the “hard skills” of life. 

For our first event, three storytellers respond to the theme: ORIGINS. Hear about the experiences that lit their desire (or need) to build their skills and what happened when they finally got the ball rolling. 

Our storytellers: 
Jenna Fletcher (she/her) | @hi_jenna
Chelsea Taylor (she/they) l @che_t400
La Toya A. Hampton (she/they) | @thepoetladyrose

* Doors at 7, show starts at 7:30pm
* $5-$15 sliding scale
* Beverages and snacks will be available for purchase.

We’re closing down the Pearl Room at Powell’s to bring you a private mixed media storytelling show based on the theme MEET CUTE!

Hosted by yours Frayn Masters & GRANT GOSCH

You’ll get to witness stellar Portlander's tell funny, sweet, titillting stories, some with  music, slides, poetry, and lil videos!

Here are your MEET CUTE storytellers!

• EDEN DAWN & ASHOD SIMONIAN

• ASH ALLEN

• JENNA FLETCHER

• CHRIS WILLIAMS  

• And MATT SHEEHY

We’re reading in a giant open-air warehouse where BARGES used to be fabricated. Hell yeah.

Celebrating Brian S Ellis’ newest poetry collection: Against Common Sense. Reading alongside Carrie Seitzinger, Stephen Meads, and Mindy Nettifee. Bevs from COFFEE BEER.

A monthly salon performance series, featuring poetry, prose, music, dance, and visual artists. Doors 7pm / Show 8pm. 21 & over. Free.

Tuesday, February 11th: Micah Fletcher, Rob Gray, Robyn Bateman, Jenna Marie Fletcher, KMA Sullivan & Cinema Obscura

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NO SELF-RESPECTING WOMAN is a collection of three essays that explore loneliness, insecurities, body image, and Taco Bell. Yes, Taco Bell will be provided at the event.

Please come and enjoy this wonderfully intimate event celebrating the release of this title with a stellar lineup of female writers of color, dancing, food, and so much more.

LINEUP:
-Katherine D. Morgan
-Jewels
-Marita DeLeon
-Jenna Marie Fletcher

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/724083384688648/

Join authors from Write Bloody Publishing and University of Hell Press at the fabulous NM Bodecker Foundation on Wednesday, March 27th, for a celebration of books, (a bit) of beer (+ wine), and (a lot) of boogie. Eight authors will share short, powerful selections of their work; ALL participants will dance dance dance the (early) night away.

6:30pm Doors open!
7:30-8:30pm Reading begins!
8:30-9:30pm Fast and furious dance party!

FREE! but MUST RSVP via the Eventbrite link to reserve your coveted spot for this exclusively rad event. Limited to the first 100 guests!

"On her first PNW Tour since the publication of Testify (Octopus Books, 2017) Simone John will be joined by local poets Jenna Marie Fletcher and Stacey Tran, whose book Soap for the Dogs is forthcoming from Gramma Press in March 2018."

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Artists will use their mediums to challenge ideas of beauty, safety, capability, autonomy, sex, and personal identity.

Proceeds from the door, donations for beer, and a percentage of all sold art will go to TransActive Gender Center.

Performing alongside: Amenta Abioto, SEA, FAUN Dae, LuvJonez Music, and Ecdysiast Pole Dance Studio

Featured Artists: Jess Ackerman, Hannah Andrews, Ali Balter, Alexandra Gomez, Leif Lee, Krysta McDaniel, Taylor Partee, Pace Taylor, Steele Walston

Food and Drink by Laughing Planet, Ex Novo and Widmer Brothers

Facebook event --> Outwork: Bodies

This is the second reading in a series NAILED will be hosting, each involving a focus to resist the current administration's damage and threat to civil rights. The focus of this reading is to honor black voices, and to bring community focus to organizations like Don't Shoot PDX. These organizations will be providing audience members with information about how to get more involved in the struggle for equality of all people. If the current times have taught us anything, it's that we must all share in the struggle and find ways to be of service to each other.

Doors at 7pm, reading begins at 8pm! Free admission. 21+ - Facebook event HERE.

Reading alongside Robert Lashley, Anna Doogan, Grace Forrester, and Emmett Wheatfall

 

A direct descendant of entertainment powerhouse The New Shit Show, LOFI @ Hifi is packed with Portland favorite performers in a highly entertaining variety show that features regular segments that include comedy, music, stories, poetry, video, and weird stuff.

Hosted by ANDREW DICKSON, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) Time Based Art Favorite and host of The Moth, this quarterly show will take place in the performer’s dream space for this show- a cozy mansion in SE Portland- and all for a very good cause.

Performing friends and wonders B Frayn Masters, Arthur Bradford, Emily Overstreet, Adam Shearer, Mindy Nettifee, and Andrew Dickson.

Tickets here: https://impactflow.com/event/lofi-at-hifi-2798

SUSAN / The Journal and the IPRC's 1001 Journal are teaming up to host a reading!

Performing alongside: Emily Kendel Frey, Jamie Mortara, Olivia Olivia, Tyler Sowa

Facebook event here --> SUSAN / 1001

Outwork features artists of all backgrounds and mediums, who come together to share their work with other folks who stand firm in the fight for social justice.

All proceeds from the door and a percentage of all art sold will go directly to Black Lives Matter, and we will be taking suggestions that night for other organizations folks want to see supported. Sliding scale entry fee of $7-10.

This month's theme is Union. What brings us together in union? How are we communal? What connotations does “union” carry in politics, public, personal lives? How does the system work to unite people/tear people apart?
Can our nation ever be united?

Facebook event here --> Outwork: Union
More info about Outwork here --> outwork.space

RESCHEDULED, WOO!

Come join Moss Angel (fka Sara June Woods) & her friends for a gay night of reading and music!

Reading alongside JoeyJane Marie Lovechild, Izzy & the Chimera, Danielle Lee Pearce, and Moss Angel Witchmonstr, Ines Falco and maybe more?

Facebook event here --> SEA WITCH v.1 Book Release Party

Featuring at February's SLAMLANDIA! Find me eating lots of pizza!

Slamlandia's (PERFECT) Manifesto: This is the Independent Free State of Slamlandia. We bear no allegiance to the city government of Portland or its environs, except for Arbor Lodge, Elliot, Boise, Cully, that public launch dock down on the river by OMSI, small pockets south of Burnside, and Javier’s Tacos. We do not recognize patriarchy, politics, fascists, or parking attendants. We have a hierarchy based on dog worship. Our currency is to be based on pizza and various sodas. We do not recognize the Gregorian calendar: by doing so this day shall be known as 666. Be gay, be very gay, all ye that hear. Respect this state.