Plazm is a magazine and designhouse that has been spanning literary, design and art for a while, 20 years, in Portland. So they have constructed an interesting set of creative orbital bonds. They are having an in-person event this evening to celebrate, so it's a great in-person creative networking opportunity as well as a fun party. There is an early patron dinner, then DJ's, modern dance performance and video by Vanessa Renwick, Lena Munday, Adrian Freeman, Shana Moulton, Duncan Malashock, Nic Chancellor, Bruce Bickford, Hooliganship, Andrew Benson, Andrew Jeffrey Wright & Clare Rojas. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 8PM-2:30AM $5-15 sliding
Portland is a paper town, maybe it's the trees, maybe it's the Gilkey Print Center and the IPRC. Letterpress is more the branch of printmaking devoted to type, and there are many letterpress enthusiasts in Portland, print pressing everything: books, business cards, invitations, media covers and more. They gather for a letterpress fair today. Printers and shops Alisa Walton, American Amateur Press Association, Archie’s Press, Art Bureau, AutumnAttic Press, Bedouin Books, Cathemeral Press, Caitlin Harris, Cindi Pedersen, Em Space Book Arts Center, Fortress Letterpress, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Ink in Tubes, Keeganmeegan & Co., May Day Press, One O.A.K. Book Arts, Monograph Bookwerks, Painted Tongue Studios, Phillip Stewart, Platemark X, Power and Light Press, Red Bat Press, Rendij Studio, Robyn Ward, Tiger Food Press, Triangular Press, Twin Ravens Press and Zebra Press. There is something about the small of presses you never forget, the mix of ink small and mechanical oil small, that goes back to Gutenberg. It's at Em Space 323 SE Division Place. 11AM-2PM $2, after until 5 Free
The gallery in the mall Place has one of it's aperiodic openings with adjacent spaces. At Place placepdx.tumblr.com, a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall. 700 SW Fifth. 6PM-10ish Free
