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Arthur Smid - Portland, Oregon
PORTLAND, OREGON
Sunday, Nov 16
Doors 6:30pm
TOMORROW THEATER

Readings by:
Jon Raymond
Lisa Wells
Leni Zumas

Then the 2025 Belinale Golden Bear Award winning film DREAMS (Sex Love), by Norwegian writer and director Dag Johan Haugerud: tomorrowtheater.org/movies/jon-r...
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
PORTLAND, OREGON: "Those who love to draw are invited to come draw with us on our Sketchcrawls around the Portland metro area."

10am to noon Saturday Nov. 15 at the PSU Farmers Market
urbansketchers-portland.blogspot.com

@lastwater.net please repost this for Portlanders who want to draw outside.
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
@postcardsbybecky.bsky.social you probably already know about Urban Sketchers: "Those who love to draw are invited to come draw with us on our Sketchcrawls around the Portland metro area."
urbansketchers-portland.blogspot.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Committed to maintaining the physical and creative ecology of the site, supporting artists, writers, and creative thinkers, and sustaining the radical curiosity that first animated it more than half a century ago."

KESEY FARM PROJECT

Pleasant Hill, Oregon

www.keseyfarm.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Ted Chiang will talk with ARRIVAL screenwriter Eric Heisserer about his debut novel:

7pm Friday, November 14th
The Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, Washington

www.eventbrite.com/e/eric-heiss...
October 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
PORTLAND, OREGON - Gather: a happy hour for social good

Thursday, November 6, 2025

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

600 E Burnside Street

Rontoms

share.hsforms.com/1M93ione9QWK...
October 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Illustrating Nature

illustratingnature.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"No one yet knows how to engineer systems that provide humans with the life-supporting services that natural ecosystems produce for free."

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social reviews two books examining consequences of the planetary perspective for politics: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Unlike most conferences, you'll see kids and kids at heart learning digital literacy, activists huddling over creative campaigns, and a community questioning the direction tech is going (and what we're going to do about it)."

MozFest in Barcelona: us19.campaign-archive.com?u=cdb853c484...
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Pictures tell the Story: Political Cartooning in Portland

"Meet local heroes, mingle with other comic artists, and browse/buy some of the work by panelists, and other local artists and publishers."

Free event, 6pm October 9 at Pacific Northwest College of Art www.eventbrite.com/e/pictures-t...
September 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed."

ACCIDENTAL GODS annadellasubin.com/accidental-g...

By Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Cardner and Alex Babakitis (co-owner of Cloud Cap Games) are making games as Odd Candy: www.instagram.com/oddcandygames/

They designed an addition for Catan that turns it into an 18xx game, players can buy shares in any of the colors and ports and even the Robber: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...
September 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"We've been working with Dave Elliott and Atomeka Press to bring back two of the UK’s most influential underground comics, A1 and DEADLINE, now reborn as one powerhouse magazine: A1DEADLINE."

www.instagram.com/p/DLjhJfPOg-u/
September 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Interview with Adam Curtis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9h...
September 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Democratic Multiplicity:

Perceiving, Enacting and Integrating
Democratic Diversity

Open access PDF of the book: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
September 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
On fire and making fortunes in the early United States, Daniel Immerwahr includes many examples of how fiction captured the age.

"Bellamy’s writing unleashed a torrent of speculative fiction, a surprisingly large part of which discussed fire."

faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/daniel-immer...
August 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"... justify the use of violence against anyone that we label a threat to the existing order. And it makes people defer to authority. This is not like, I think, intrinsic to the idea of superheroes in and of itself. Anti-egalitarianism, that probably is intrinsic to the idea of superheroes."
August 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"The existing status quo involves things like vast wealth inequality and systemic racism and police brutality. And if you are really committed to justice, those are probably not things that you want to reinforce. Those are not things you want to preserve. But that’s what superheroes always do."
August 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Portland, Oregon - Community Budgeting for All

Intended Election Date: November 3, 2026

www.portland.gov/auditor/elec... cc @peoplepowered.org @pbp-org.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A new game store in Portland, Oregon:

Giant Space Hamster Games
5933 N Greeley Ave.

www.giantspacehamstergames.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Boorman decided to make the film after his abortive attempt at dramatising The Lord of the Rings. ... It was shot entirely in County Wicklow in the east of Ireland."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz
August 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Portland, Oregon

City of Bridges: An Anthology of Community

Tether Books: www.tetherbooks.com/books
July 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
At 50:45 in the video Wisenfeld mentions a graphic novel he's working on—an image from the book is also on his website: aronwiesenfeld.com/news
July 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Portland-based screenwriter and novelist Jon Raymond has a new book, God and Sex, out in August. www.criterion.com/current/top-...
July 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Alexandra Finkeldey, a freelance artist based in Kingston, Canada: artbyscatterbee.com/personal-copy
July 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM