Wednesday February 27, 2008

07:00 PM : Debate Club @ Rontom's

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Bus Project and Portland Mercury's
February Debate Club:
Domestic Partnerships Pass in Oregon! Is Marriage
Next?

Location: rontom's, 600 E. Burnside, Portland
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 --7pm

(Come by early if you wanna catch the end of Happy
Hour before 6:30! Who doesn't love those $3 Grilled
Cheese Sandwich triangles and Tomato Soup?)

Join the Bus Project and the Portland Mercury back at
rontom's this Wednesday for your favorite monthly hot
topic debate.

We'll be hearing from a few perspectives on what
happens now that Measure 36, a Constitutional
Amendment that defined marriage as "between one man
and one woman" is finally BEHIND us! Now that the
Oregon Family Fairness Act (and a challenge in the
Federal Court-- check it out here:
http://www.basicrights.org/?p=174) has created
domestic partnerships for same-sex couples, what's
next for Oregon? What does marriage equity look like
and how should the government be involved?

Come join in the discussion and hear what people are
saying about domestic partnerships and marriage in
Oregon.

**BIG apologies to anyone under 21! rontom's is 21+
only

09:00 PM : Landmarks @ Holocene

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Wednesday 27 February

TIME
9pm

COST
$6.00 day of show

Holocene and vision+hearing.org Present...

Landmarks A collaborative multimedia portrait of Portland's landmarks
featuring D. Yellow Swans with visuals by Avalon Kain
Unrecognizable Now with visuals by Rob Tyler
Very Stereo

We invite you to experience a bit of Portland through the eyes and ears of these local artists.

Please visit vimeo.com/vhlandmarks to share with us your own videos of Portland.

09:30 PM : Loggernaut @ Mississippi Studios

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The first Loggernaut reading of 2008 will be, we're sure, terrific:

Joshua Beckman ~~ Arthur Bradford ~~ Pauls Toutonghi ~~ (read about 'em below)

The prompt is "Trying."

Please join us on Wednesday, February 27th, 7:30pm at Mississippi Studios. There's a recommended donation of $5 at the door.

(We'll send out a reminder note next week, because we can't remember anything either.)

This is a great line-up--we're excited, and we think you should be, too. So, come!

Hope to see you there,

Jesse Lichtenstein
Heather Larimer
Erin Ergenbright
http://www.loggernaut.org
http://www.mississippistudios.com

Joshua Beckman is the author of six books of poetry, including Things Are Happening (1998), Something I Expected to Be Different (2001), and, most recently, a collaboration with Anthony McCann and Matthew Rohrer, Gentle Reader! His translations include works by the Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun. Beckman was an organizer and featured reader for the Poetry Bus 2006 Tour.

Arthur Bradford's first book, Dogwalker (Knopf, 2001) is now out in Vintage paperback. An O Henry Award winner, his stories have appeared in Esquire, Zoetrope, McSweeney's, and Dazed and Confused. He is also the director of the documentary series "How's Your News?" which has appeared on HBO and PBS. In the summertime he directs Camp Jabberwocky, the oldest sleepover camp for people with disabilities in the United States. He writes the blog Diaper Bandit.

Pauls Toutonghi's first novel, Red Weather, (Random House, 2006), has been translated into Latvian! His writing has appeared in Sports Illustrated, One Story, Zoetrope, and The Yemen Observer. He teaches at Lewis and Clark College and has also published a collection of short stories called Live Cargo.