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Wordstock Weekend: Go Here Now.

Plazm and New Oregon-related Authors at Wordstock

*2 pm Saturday, Oct 8: "The Death of Print and Humanity in the Digital Age." Join Plazm editors/creators Tiffany Lee Brown (moderator), Jon Raymond, and Joshua Berger along with Born magazine's Anmarie Trimble and Urban Honking's Mike Merrill. A New Oregon Arts & Letters adventure. Wieden+Kennedy Stage, Oregon Convention Center.

*2 pm Sunday: "From Playboy to the Bible: Adapting Writing for Screen and Image." With Andy Mingo, Mark Russell, Nora Robertson (moderator), Shannon Wheeler. A cartoonist, a humorist and a filmmaker sit down to discuss collaboration between writers and artists in visual mediums.A New Oregon Arts & Letters joint. Oregon Cultural Trust Stage.

12 pm Saturday: "My Censor, My Self." Plazm contributor and "Chronology of Water" goddess-author Lidia Yuknavitch with Ben Moorad, Kerry Cohen, and Lynn Connor. Writers often suppress their own work before reviewers, readers and relatives have a chance to pass judgement. How to get around the snarkiest critic of all? Wieden+Kennedy Stage.

5 pm Saturday: Colin Meloy & Carson Ellis. Author and illustrator of middle reader book "Wildwood." Maybe you caught their very first Wildwood appearance at the Plazm 20th Anniversary VIP event. Mr. Meloy (of the Decemberists) read, and Ms. Ellis donated a drawing of the book's cover. So we heart them. If you missed it then, catch it now! McMenamins Stage.

1 pm Sunday: "Mean Girls." Plazm contributor Lisa Wells joins, Chelsea Cain, Moira Young, and Karen Karbo to discuss: What is it about mean girls that we love to hate? And how do writers make a mean girl we care about? Wordstock Community Stage.

Help Put Out Plazm #30: our 20th Anniversary Issue

 

We've got another big, beautiful magazine ready to go to press. Issue #30 features David Lynch, Bruce Sterling, and many other excellent artists and writers. We just need donations to help print it. We even got a grant, because high quality printing on truly good paper is very expensive these days and we like to keep our cover price affordable enough for regular people.

Unfortunately, our printer was bought out by another company that can't honor our original bid, so we're scrambling to raise the extra funds, extra fast. Help make it happen! You'll win fabulous rewards, and if you request it, we'll be happy to provide a receipt for your taxes—Plazm is now published by a nonprofit, New Oregon Arts & Letters.

Celebrate two decades of Plazm with us. Donate today.

FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND PALM CONNECTIONS

How's the latest TSA Gallery exhibit progressing day by day? Are we really going to get Plazm magazine out the door before the year ends? What fabulous things are happening at New Oregon?

Follow us by clicking "like" at facebook.com/neworegon ... it's our new FB page, not to be confused with our old, dead Facebook Group (from back when groups were all the rage). Bits of our current activities are also being featured on the Palm Connections FB app; thank you, guys, for plying us with free Palm Pre phones and encouraging us to bother to post more to FB!

 

 

The Body Show Benefit Cabaret and Screening

Cooking show host (and intrepid New Oregon Arts & Letters reporter) Nora Robertson sets out to demonstrate the simplest of dishes, the hard-boiled egg, but the lesson soon goes awry as surreal interludes of virgin sacrifices to a Ghanaian snake god, a 60’s Hollywood dinner party and a deviled egg recipe intrude. Based on Robertson’s 2007 Pushcart Prize-nominated poem, “How to Boil an Egg”, this experimental short video punctures the notion of the housewife who can keep her family safe through wholesome food and hygiene. Collaborators include poet and performer Nora Robertson, video artist Jason Bahling, musician Tim John O’Brien and writer Mark Russell.

A benefit cabaret and screening to raise funds for post-production costs will be held at Someday Lounge on November 3^rd.  Performers include Back Fence producer B. Frayn Masters and Nathaniel Boggess as storytellers, Oregon Literary Fellow Margaret Malone and Portland Noir contributor Gigi Little, and Dogwalker author/MTV’s How’s Your News? director Arthur Bradford will be reading short selections of fiction, and singer/songwriter Danielle Fish with her band Paschal Coeur will be performing retro cover songs about food and sex/gender.  A Voodoo doughnut-eating contest will be judged by Voodoo Doughnut owner Tres Shannon, Plazm co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown and New Yorker contributor Shannon Wheeler based on quality of technique, such as Best Use of Hole.  Contestants include Brody Theater principal Brad Fortier, Village Voice cartoonist Matt Bors, a representative from Stumptown, Paschal Coeur frontwoman Danielle Fish and The Pragmatic frontman/Remix Artists Collective DJ Karl Kling.

Sponsors include Voodoo Doughnuts and Bad Monkey Productions.   Wednesday, November 3^rd, Someday Lounge, 7:30-9PM, door at 7PM, $5-15 sliding scale. 

INSTEAD OF FIRST FRIDAY: DAY OF THE DEAD.

Artist Emily Stone, showing her new site-specific installation "House/Hole" for our next TSA Gallery work, has requested that guests plan to attend a closing night event on November 1, Day of the Dead, instead of an opening this Friday, October 1.

"House/Hole" is an ongoing, transforming work happening outdoors on SE 36th Avenue in Portland, between Salmon and Taylor. It will begin October 1 and evolve throughout the month, sometimes with live presence and performance by Emily. We invite you to wander by and check it out any time... and hope you will join us for the Day of the Dead ritual.

For more about TSA / Temporary Semi-Autonomous Art, keep reading...

KZME 107.1 FM Pre-Launch Party at Pe:ar: Boy Eats Drum Machine + Celilo + Hugs

KZME goes on the air at 107.1 FM this fall covering local music arts, arts and culture, and they're having a party.  Hip-pop one-man performance Boy Eats Drum Machine, five piece indie/Americana band Celilo, and anglophile indie-poppers Hugs break it down for you, and there's a raffle with tons of goodies from Akemi Salon, Trade-Up Music, Local Goods General Store, and much more. Beer and Cupcake Jones available.  Hosted by Tara Dublin at Pe:ar, Sat, Oct 2nd, NW 6th and Flanders, 8PM, $10 suggested donation, all ages.  Pre-show tickets at http://www.kzme.fm/happenings/ .

---Nora Robertson

MONUMENT 3: PHOTOS & SUCH ON ART & CONCEPT

Our TSA Gallery event and ribbon-cutting ceremony for Gary Wiseman's "Monument 3" is written up on ARC: Art & Concept by Richard Schemmerer. Photo above by JDB.

TSA this Tuesday: Please Wear Business or Faux-Business Attire...

 

"Monument 3. The Outward Sign (Resolution)" by Gary Wiseman is an installation at the Temporary Semi-Autonomous Gallery that evolves throughout the month of August and remains on display through September. A ribbon-cutting/dedication ceremony takes place Tuesday, August 10 at 7:30 pm at TSA, located outdoors on SE 36th Avenue in Portland between Taylor and Salmon streets. BYOB, and please wear business attire.

Gary's temporary monument series takes place in three parts throughout summer 2010: at New American Art Union, Little Field Gallery, and at New Oregon's TSA Gallery. The project, collectively entitled "Monument (Couldn't Have Done It Without You)," acknowledges and honors the people who have collaborated with Wiseman through his social and co-relational art practice.

Gary's work has been shown at PICA's TBA festival, Flux Factory in New York, Igloo Gallery, the Manor of Art, Reed College, and the Amsterdam Bienniale, among others. We at New Oregon are delighted to work with him on this transformational piece that lays to rest one era of his work, serving as a bridge to the new.

Read about this artwork, the death of social practice,the confluence of home and public space, and penises, right here at New Oregon/2GQ.

Images: Top - Detail of "Inside, Outside" by Gary Wiseman at Annex Gallery, 2009. Bottom: a peek at part of "garden of beloved (broken) objects" by Meg McHutchison at TSA Gallery, July 2010.

NEWSLETTER: DINNER, TWITTER, ART, PLAZM, AND DE ZINES

plazm newsletter
july 2010


1. plazm issue #30 gets a grant
2. de zines exhibition, madrid
3. artist talk: sarah gottesdiener - today, portland
4. help wanted: advertising sales
5. reservations accepted: artist dinner july 24, portland
6. twitter feed
7. announcing plazaar for small businesses/artists/musicians

hit "continue" to read all the fabulous details...

WRITE TO WRECK YOUR LIFE: Chuck Palahniuk Live at Willamette Writers

 

There's no one quite like homegrown Northwest writer Chuck Palahniuk. Author of Fight Club and Tell-All, Palahniuk is a sometimes prankster who writes about death, sex, fighting, and fidgeting in a style that has been described as minimalistic and nihilistic, and that is apt to make audience members faint at some of his readings.

 

 

Chuck will inform Portland audiences how to “Write to Wreck Your Life (and Get a Better One)” at the Willamette Writers Conference banquet August 7.   “Writing about the most‐risky, most‐challenging subjects can feel miserable," he explains, "but that suffering will vault you to becoming a stronger, braver person. You might have to sacrifice your short‐term comfort and happiness, but that effort will bring you more happiness and success than you’d ever dreamed possible."

More information and reservations at www.willamettewriters.com or 503‐452‐1592.

—Lisa Parsons

HELP US, EARN BIG BUCKS, FEEL LIKE A ROCK STAR.

Plazm magazine, published by New Oregon, seeks an Advertising Sales Representative

Plazm is a magazine of design, culture, art, literature, and music, founded in Portland in 1991. Our advertisers run the gamut from small to large, local to international, such as:

• Ace Hotel • Portland Center Stage • PICA • Elizabeth Leach Gallery • Pacific Northwest College of Art • Reed College Cooley Gallery • Hive Modern

Airwalk Shoes • Nau Clothing • Issey Miyake • Converse Shoes

Geffen Records • Matador Records • Cherchez La Femme • Mute Records • Miramax Films

New Deal Vodka • New Belgium Brewery • Altoids • Tanqueray

Getty Images • Adobe Software • creativepro.com • Dyna Graphics • Cut & Paste

 

This is not a job, but a contract (1099) opportunity to volunteer for a nonprofit organization and receive a stipend of 10-15% based on your sales. Starts immediately.

Plazm magazine is available at Powell's, Reading Frenzy, local stores, and is distributed internationally to bookstores and other outlets. Online: plazm.com/magazine/features; blog.plazm.com. Published by New Oregon Arts & Letters, neworegon.org.

Send resume (Word or PDF form) and introduce yourself to advertising30@plazm.com. Thanks.

FAA GALLERY: WEARABLE GALLERY AT "RAD HATTER" OPENS FIRST THURSDAY

 "Rad Hatter" invites Portland to check out the new Tender Loving Empire gallery-shop-etcetera space downtown... and invited some 40 local artists to transform trucker hats into wearable art. Folks like Mona Superhero and Chris Haberman are making hats; all will be priced under $50.

New Oregonotroid Tiffany Lee Brown has a piece in the show: a wearable, portable, personal gallery. "FAA: Fully Autonomous Art gallery" comes pre-loaded with a group show of miniature artworks by Gary Wiseman, Mildred Galore, Clare Carpenter, Stacey Tigner Loy, and Christine Toth, and a show catalog by Allison Dubinsky.

If you try out Tiffany's hat, be sure to turn on and position the studio lights. And should you decide to purchase it, proceeds will benefit New Oregon Arts & Letters.

Thursday, July 1, 2010, 6-10 pm
Tender Loving Empire
412 sw 10th Avenue at Stark / Ace Hotel block