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Free Events This Weekend in Portland: Jan 4–6

January 4th, 2008

Here’s this weekend’s round-up of free events in the Portland area. Admission to all events is free. Have a great weekend!

Friday, January 4

• Downtown Camas is hosting a Resolution Party from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Make your New Year’s resolutions and fill out resolution cards in participating downtown businesses to win prizes. This event is part of Camas First Friday, which happens every month. For more information, visit the Downtown Camas website.

• Leviethan, Ritchie Young and IOA will be performing at Mississippi Studios at 10:00 pm. For more information, visit the Mississippi Studios website.

• Hot Mess dance party is happening at Tube (18 NW 3rd) at 10:00 pm, featuring DJs Hoop Dreams, HR Paperstacks and Hannuka Miracle. You can read more about it at the Willamette Week website.

• DJ Santo and Chauncey Canfield will be playing at the Press Club (2621 SE Clinton St.) at 7:00 pm. Read more about them at the Willamette Week website.

• John Bunzow will be performing at Edgefield at 7:00 pm. Ages 21 and older. For more information, visit the Edgefield website.

• Carlyle will be performing at Rock Creek Tavern at 9:00 pm. All ages until 10:00 pm. For more information, visit the Rock Creek Tavern website.

• Portland artist Bryn Johns-Hunter will be showing a new selection of Oomography (experimental photography with plastic cameras) at In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources at 7:00 pm. For more information, visit the In Other Words website.

• Patricia Briggs will be talking about her new book Iron Kissed, the third volume in her Mercy Thompson series, at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7:00 pm. For more information, visit the Powell’s website. 

Saturday, January 5

• Eugene Robinson will talk about his book Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking at Borders in Beaverton at 3:00 pm. For more information, visit the Borders website. 

• Eleanor Berry, Celia Carlson, Michael McDowell and Paulann Petersen will read poems by William Stafford from 2:00 pm–4:00 pm at Tigard Public Library. For more information, visit the Friends of William Stafford website.

• Johnson Creek Brass will perform jazz, classical and ragtime standards at the Ledding Library at 2:00 pm. For more information, visit the Ledding Library website.

• Pilar French will be performing at Edgefield at 7:00 pm. Ages 21 and older. For more information, visit the Edgefield website.

Sunday, January 6

• Performers from CoHo Productions will present a preview of the play Tales of Ordinary Madness at the Central Library, 1:00 pm. For more information, visit the Multnomah County Library website.

• At Hollywood Library, Portland Story Theater will perform a sample of the play Shackleton’s Antarctic Nightmare, 2:00 pm. For more information, visit the Multnomah County Library website.

• Mary Flower will be performing at Edgefield at 5:00 pm. Ages 21 and older. For more information, visit the Edgefield website.

If you know of any other free events happening this weekend, please write a comment about it. If you’d like me to include an event in a future round-up, feel free to contact me.

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