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July 2010
Dear Readers,
There are so many exciting developments in Portland's small press publishing and indie book selling scene that I hardly know where to start! So here's a quick run down off the top of my head:
- The IPRC is about to kick off the annual Camp IPRC program with an exciting line up of workshops and events.
- Publication Studio just held their grand opening in their new space just a hop, skip and a jump away from Reading Frenzy at 717 SW Ankeny St. Check out their publications or publish your own!
- Microcosm Publishing recently moved into a much bigger abode on the corner of 11th & Alder.
- Ditto for Eberhardt Press whose new print shop is right next door to Microcosm.
- Check out the old Microcosm space on SE 8th & Main where you'll find two new ventures occupying one space -- Copyleft Books carries an interesting and eclectic mix of new, used and vintage books with a radical or subversive bent. Northstar Infoshop is a community center whose goal is to promote independent, self-sustainable communities, and to help cultivate radical, grassroots solutions to local and global problems.
- Monograph Bookwerks recently opened its doors at 5005 NE 27th Ave. (at Alberta) and features fine art books and objects.
- Just up the street at 2916 NE Alberta St. Ampersand Vintage is a gallery, bookshop and "retail archive" that mixes in monthly art shows, back patio film nights, and piles of paper ephemera and found photos with its selection of fine art, design and photography books.
- Dill Pickle Club recently launched its Oregon History Comic Series with the mini-comic Lone Fir Cemetery by Sarah Mirk. We'll be hosting the release party for their upcoming title, Northwest Passage: 50 Years of Independent Music from the Rose City on August 27th!
- Container Corps is a publication design studio, printshop, bindery, and exhibition space located at 1322 N Killingsworth St. They're also publishing a series of artists books and print propaganda posters.
- Portland Zine Symposium is coming a little later this year -- mark your calendars for the weekend of August 28th. In addition to hundreds of small press and self-publishers, you'll find a full roster of related workshops as well as evening events.
- Reading Local: Portland is "dedicated to promoting the Portland literary community and all of its many moving parts". Featuring articles, interviews and reviews as well as comprehensive listings for local literary events. Very handy!
- Bangback is a new blog about printed matter by Pinball Publishing and friends. Look for an interview with your faithful proprietress later this month. In the meantime, check out Clifton Burt's column Zine Ride for his picks of the zine crop this month!
- And here's one for the kids: the enchanting Green Bean Books at 1600 NE Alberta St. is offering story time and drop-in art activities all summer long. Start your favorite kid on a lifelong journey of adventurous reading!
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Your Faithful Proprietress,
Chloe
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Over It, Opening July 8th
Free Screening of Beer Commericals (best enjoyed with free beer!)
Print Camp 2010
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THURSDAY, JULY 1st
- SATURDAY, JULY 31st
The Sea Beasts: Works Inspired by Brutes of the Deep
Recent work by Harlan Mahaffy
Join us this 1st Thursday for The 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 ~ such as elephant seals, sharks, seagulls, jellyfish and deep sea creatures.
Harlan Mahaffy grew up in the woodlands of Appalachia and managed to get a couple of art degrees from Penn State before relocating to Portland. He is interested in work that resists being restrictively collectable but maintains a high level of quality and engagement for each viewer. He's spent the past few years in Portland making his work known via ephemera such as comic books, postcards and printmaking.
This is event is free and so is the beer! Exhibit will run through the month of July.
Upcoming Events
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5th, 6PM
Small Things Can Make You Feel Smaller
A collection of recent collages by Mark Searcy
Using precisely placed bits of saturated color and clever image cropping, Mark reconstructs multi-dimensional narratives with complex minimalism... without his computer. After years of being entrenched in the front lines of the digital revolution writing computer code, his recent collages reflect a constant struggle between his love and hatred of having to be dependent on digital technology. Enchanted with the idea of creating images without the aid of batteries, he turns to vintage magazines as a major source of inspiration and reflection on a life unchained from the computer.
Mark studied fine art and graphic design at the University of North Texas, owned and operated Art Prostitute, the acclaimed art and design publication and art gallery, moved to Portland and became the art director at the Portland Mercury, until last year, when he ambitiously embarked on his "practice retirement" to focus more on making art and writing. In 2010, Mark retuned back to freelancing with a short stint in the creative department at Wieden & Kennedy, as well as semester of teaching Flash at Portland State University, and self-publiching at the Independent Press and Resource Center. In between finding work to pay the bills, he continues to write, make collages, and is also working on a new publication project called Most Wonderful.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27th, 7PM
NW Passage Book Release Party
with Marc Moscato and Friends!
Celebrate the release of Northwest Passage: 50 Years and Independent Music from the Rose City, a book and audio CD highlighting the history of Portland's burgeoning music scene, with a short talk by the publishers, the Dill Pickle Club. DJ HWY 7 spins a special set of forgotten Portland classics 1950s-present, mined from his archive of local vinyl -- from punk to funk and blues and deep Portland soul.
As usual, this event is free and so is the beer!
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 7PM
Reading Frenzy 16th Anniversary
More info coming soon...
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd
Together Collective Show
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 7PM
Richard Yates
Reading and Signing with Tao Lin
Join us tonight for a reading by Tao Lin to celebrate the release of his second novel, Richard Yates.
Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has little to do with him. Instead, it tracks the relationship between writer Haley Joel Osment, a New Yorker in his early twenties, and Dakota Fanning, his 16-year-old lover. Moving between Fanning’s suburban New Jersey home and Osment’s Wall Street apartment, the couple increasingly shuns the outside world as they work to navigate the moral ambiguity of their relationship. But as the relationship grows more obsessive and Osment becomes more intimately involved with Fanning, she reveals her increasingly disturbing and self-destructive personality. Osment’s own guilt and anger entrap him as they find the relationship -- and their lives -- hurtling out of control.
Tao Linis an American poet, novelist, short story writer and artist. He's the author of five books of fiction and poetry, Richard Yates is his second novel. Lin's work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, and magazines such as
NOON, of which he is a frequent contributor,
Vice,
Esquire,
The Stranger, 3:AM Magazine,
The Mississippi Review,
The Poetry Foundation,
Nerve,
Bear Parade,
The Cincinnati Review,
Other Voices, and
Fourteen Hills.
"Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass—from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious.” -- Miranda July
This event is free and so is the beer!
