Saturday, October 29, 2022

October 28 Witch Gravy Amphigory Hob Gob Punk

Weird Portland would not be complete without a stand up paddle board parade and regatta. Witches joined by warlocks paddle the Willamette. They start at Willamette Park and end at Waterfront Park. Pacing them by bicycle would be ideal and seeing them from the Tilikum Crossing and the Hawthorne Bridge would be ideal. They are encouraging donations to SutmptownStrays. Willamette River 11AM Free


The Grass Hut comics and art store moved from Old Town to Lloyd Mall. They are having a big art show today of flat and 3D art from their network. The poster is at https://goopygravy.com/. Lloyd Mall Grass Hut Noon-7 Free


Adams and Ollman opens Amphigory by Will Rawls. There is a very eloquent description on their website about his work and this show of abstract silk screens of the alphabet. He works both coasts based out of LA. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free


Emily Counts https://emilycounts.com/ is a ceramic sculptor from Portland to Seattle. Her earlier sculptures were bright and reminsent of the post modern Memphis movement from Italy. There is a reception for the show, Field Studies, today. At www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Masks required 2PM-4 Free


Hob Gob is Joshua Abelow, Erika Eyres, Elmeater Morton, and Lina Lutz At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 2PM-5 Free


The writers, poets, and punk bands play tonight. They win the copywriting award for the month:

"Join us for an evening of improvised electronic music, intense vocals, psychedelic folk, and storytelling from horror novelists, oracles, and beings who are very temporarily visiting from other dimensions. This will be scary. This will be funny. This will be the kind of Weird and Wonderfull that makes you feel good, makes you quake with excitement at WHAT MAY HAPPEN NEXT!
You didn’t know you needed to come here. Who were you before this? Do you even REMEMBER? Be stimulated, masticated, laid bare. Get your drink on. Get lost. Get entangled. Come to Haymaker to see some of the weirdest storytellers and legends of Northwest literary and electronic music scenes.
* * * The Dead Air Fresheners are a Portland, Oregon, Olympia, Washington, and Seattle, Washington-based experimental and post-punk musical group. They formed around 1996 “in a dilapidated beachfront mansion on the Eld Inlet in Thurston County, Washington.” They have improvised electronic atmospheres in numerous shows with readers Chuck Swaim and Jennifer Robin. Their combination of costumes, performance art, and on-stage chaos is legendary. Their 17th album, Unfriended, was released on Personal Archives in 2022.
* * * Misha Lynn Moon is a nonbinary trans femme writer and witch living in Portland, Oregon. She started writing when she was a young girl after her favorite teacher said, “I want to know what happens next in this story.” She been trying to see what happens next ever since, both in her writing and her life. Her work has appeared in the anthology 99% Chance of Magic: Stories of Strength & Hope for Transgender Kids on Heartspark Press.
* * * Death is the solo project of lead vocalist Meredith of MIND BEAM S. MIND BEAMS is swirling genre-breaking heavy. MIND BEAMS is rising out of deconstruction. MIND BEAMS is post-traumatic incantations. Their power is featured on the Bats EP in 2018, and Crone in 2019.
* * * Jennifer Robin is RAW POWER. She writes about geopolitical disasters and her mother. She has toured the country with a mix of readings and music, including appearances at Bumbershoot, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival, and Portland’s NOFEST. Robin is the author of Death Confetti (Feral House, 2016), Earthquakes in Candyland (Fungasm, 2019), and You Only Bend Once with a Spoonful of Mercury (Far West, 2022). Her book of vignettes about Catholic school, French sex, selling boots to foot fetishists, and the joyless chewing of Thanksgiving turkey, DESTROY NOTHING (the most important thing) will be released by Future Tense in 2023.
* * * Lark and Raven are Skyler Reed and classically-trained violinist Tomoè Martens. Their music fuses alt-folk, Afro-Cuban, and psychedelic genres. Reed is the founder of Moved By Words (http://www.movedbywords.org). He is the host of NW Native Writers Circle, former Oregon Folklife Slam Champion, featured at the Invisible Spectrum storytelling series, appeared in Portlandia, and is published in Voicemail Poems, R.I.S.E: Survivance: Indigenous Poesis, The LBCC Journal Creative Highway, and the Poetics Corvallis anthology This Love Is Legendary. Skyler is the author of two chapbooks, And All Ampersands (2016) and Sex & Wikipedia (2017).
* * * Garrett Cook was raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts in a house half the town called haunted, and grew up obsessed with everything curious, monstrous and perverse. His work has appeared alongside Joe Lansdale in Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade, Michael Moorcock in Kizuna and Jack Ketchum in DOA III, and James Joyce in I Transgress. He is the winner of the Wonderland award for his book Time Pimp, and an Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year 7 for Beast with Two Backs. His work has been translated into Spanish, Japanese and Russian. Charcoal (2022) is his most recent release from Clash Books.
* * * Linda Rand is an Art Witch and Wolf Mama living in Portland, Oregon. She has been published in Entropy, Nailed Magazine, Unchaste Anthology Volume I, as well as anthologies 2020 Year of the Asterisk, Places Like Home, City of Weird, and The People’s Apocalypse, with non-fiction journal excerpts in Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy. Her artwork has been included in PDX Magazine and the book Oneira: I Dream the Self. Follow on Instagram: @birdswaybotanicals, and read her Pandemic Diaries at https://thebigsmoke.com/us/author/linda-rand/"

At Haymaker Bar 1233 N killingsworth 9PM-1130 5 of your human dollars