Doors 7PM 
7:30 PM Show

Alex Crowson is a singer-songwriter and podcaster based in Portland, OR.
Alex crafts lovingly gorgeous songs that breathe tenderness and thoughtfulness. 
https://alexcrowson.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-i-missed-you 

Grandkid Music is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Danny Austin-Manning.

Concert - Free Water Shrew Ensemble, Anthony J. Stillabower, Michiko Ogawa

Tuesday, December 2⋅

RSVP Online - Cash or venmo tickets collected at doors

Doors @ 7 pm

Music at 7:30 pm

$10 - Cash / Venmo at doors
 
Eventbrite link - 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1966434692099?aff=oddtdtcreator

Free Water Shrew Ensemble

https://watershrews.bandcamp.com/

Water Shrews are like an amoeba, ever dividing and recombining not in any kind of pursuit but in the original act, that of being - a cell with a variable number of nuclei and no walls, a permeable membrane through which the experience of sound -sometimes, more often than not, music - passes back and forth. The electronic yelps of a moist amphibious organism rising from an opaque and viscous firmament of hissing static. The probing, intermittent signals of long lost satellites launched by people from a future that already came to pass. The sound of nutria sirens wailing on the banks of the Columbia River, Wimahl, who have no sailors left to lure and the clanking of the radiator just off-screen in an apartment in a slow-paced Russian film. The foghorn of a cargo ship harmonizing with the klaxon of an ice-cream truck. Everything travels to where it is destined to go at the pace it is destined to take, the time signature of swarming insects and slowly rotating galaxies. Unending untouched expanses tucked into a pinhole in a rotting, slumping fence separating neighbors - Borges' Aleph in a Southeast Portland alley-way. A graceful drawing of a bow across strings. 

Anthony J. Stillabower

www.ajstillabower.com

Anthony J. Stillabower’s improvisations are shaped by voice, feedback percussion, and machine learning algorithms. Situated at the threshold of audibility, his approach to sound inhabits a terrain of friction and flow, where presence flickers between memory and material flux. 

What is the source of a sound? Is something sounding now?

MICHIKO O (Michiko Ogawa)

performer-composer-researcher

https://linktr.ee/michiko_o

Michiko is performer-composer and researcher born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.

She is working with several musical groups and is one of the core members of Berlin's Harmonic Space Orchestra.

She has been working with Lucy Railton, Manuel Pessoa de Lima, Klaus Lang, James Rushford, Sam Dunscombe, Ellen Arkbro, Tashi Wada, Carolyn Chen, Werner Duran, Taku Sugimoto, Crys Cole, Oren Ambarchi and others.

She also frequently collaborates with visual artists and dancers such Angela Jennings, Lindsay Bloom, Brianna Rigg, Laurence Favre, Karol Tyminski and Sabina Maselli etc.

She was awarded Bachelor's degree (BA) from Toho-Gakuen School of Music, Master's degree(MA)for clarinet performance from Die Hochschule für Musik Freiburg under Prof. Jörg Widmann, and her Doctoral degree (DMA) from the University of California San Diego in 2019 with research on the film music of Teiji Ito, and is currently writing a biography of him.

Book launch for Edith Mirante's latest book, "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts."

Her essays reveal remote Chinland, pandemic Yellowstone, Manzanar, Cahokia, Heizer’s City.
Interwoven are themes of Indigenous resistance, land rights, wildness, art in times of conflict, the guns and tanks of Burma. Bison, elk (including a certain inanimate one in Portland), muskox and mithuns roam.
There could be heroes: World War II artists Anthony Gross and Clive Branson, labor firebrand Karl Yoneda. There will be revolution, and enchantment.

Edith Mirante is the founder of ProjectMaje.org which distributes information on Burma (Myanmar) human rights and environmental issues.
She is an artist and author of two Burma books, Burmese Looking Glass and Down the Rat Hole, as well as The Wind in the Bamboo about Black Indigenous Asians.

Portland Tennis Courterly - Wet Issue Release Party
https://tenniscourterly.com/

https://www.instagram.com/tenniscourterly?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Friday, November 21, 2025

7:00 PM–9:00 PM

JOIN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART MFA COMMUNITY FOR A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCES AND READINGS FROM WORKS IN PROCESS.

7 PM

CONCERT EVENTBRITE LINK TO RSVP : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1849327922599?aff=oddtdtcreator

Amber Russell is an acoustic experimental fingerstyle guitarist based in Portland, Oregon.
She has an unorthodox, theatrical approach to her style of playing. Her music has been described as imaginative and captivating.
She utilizes various techniques such as alternate tunings, unique approach to harmonics, percussive strikes mixed with catchy melodies.
Amber gained recognition through social media and now has partnerships with Ibanez guitars, Halland Guitars, G7th Capos, Elite Acoustics, DiMarzio Inc and many more. She has performed with artists such as Kaki King, Muriel Andersen, Yasmin Williams and many more for the International Women of fingerstyle concert in January of 2020 in Anaheim, California at the House of Blues. Her song “Portland Dance'' premiered for Candyrat Records in December of 2019 with over 26k views, Amber put together a 30 lesson guitar course for JamPlay.com in 2019, A top rated guitarist educational resource with hundreds of famous guitarist instructors available. She has been seen on KGW8 interview with Mtv’s Brian Mcfaden and has been a guest to many radio shows throughout the country, including Portland's own local radio Shady Pines Radio.
Amber Currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she and her wife currently own and operate their guitar school and retail store, Rose City Guitar Company and Is still an active player in the musical performance industry.

IG : https://www.instagram.com/amberrussellmuzic/ 

FB: https://www.facebook.com/Amberrussellacoustic
Youtube video : https://youtu.be/X3t7MoM3Lxo

Gregory Allison creates with a single violin a sound that travels across great landscapes.  He brings the sensibility of a film composer into a live and intimate setting.  His training in South Indian Classical music brings a melodic fluency and emotional fire to his compositions while his Western Classical training is apparent in the wide sonic palette that he creates.  He is a sound shaper.  His violin goes from intimate weeping to orchestral soundscapes, carrying the listener on a journey all the way.  

A composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who performs in a wide variety of styles and genres, Gregory is originally from Madison, WI where he began studying piano at age 5 and violin at 9.  In high school he used his classical violin training as a springboard for learning about improvising, jazz, world music traditions.  He started playing the mandolin and his studies on the instrument landed him a four-year scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he completed a degree in Composition.

https://www.gregoryallison.net/about
Gregory Allison - 

Doors 7 PM

Concert 7:30 PM

Join us for an evening of free-form Jazz with NOTES & MOTES

Tuesday November 18th

7 - 9 PM

Live show

Avery Lynch
Direct Support: Tristan

Ticket Link (live): https://posh.vip/e/avery-lynch-at-mother-foucaults-bookshop-1

7:00 doors
8:00 music

Folk / Songwriter / Americana  

CONCERT EVENTBRITE LINK TO RSVP : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1787963610289?aff=oddtdtcreator
 
Doors 7 PM
7:30 PM Show 

A.C. Sapphire - 
https://www.acsapphiremusic.com/music 

Portland artist Ac Sapphire returns with the decadent new album Dec. 32nd, songs from a cycle that honors Sapphire at her best: guitar, and vocals front and center; celebrations of the songwriter, the shredder, that she is. Sapphire sits serenely among the songwriting class that is our generation's Laurel Canyon sound. Ac's music has a grasp on the cosmic side of Americana. She resides in Portland, but was once a desert denizen, and her southwestern exposure shows in the wide open, dusty, romantic sound of each song. She's the winner of Relix Sonic Showdown, a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She's shared the stage with artists like Son Little, long time friend Sunny War, and even been featured on a Shirley Manson (Garbage) song. Ac has played the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Treefort Music Fest. Even as this album is being released, she's finishing recording another with NewSong Music as the winner of their 2022 contest.

Shelby Natasha - (Of Seattle) 

https://boldjourney.com/meet-shelby-christ/

Shelby Natasha is a Seattle based alt-folk musician and producer. Growing up living between the Pacific Northwest and China, her music is a blend of the folk music of both cultures. Her ghostlike vocals are accompanied by the Guzheng and lofi-beats, woven together with sounds collected from the natural world. Her music focuses on themes of grief, belongingness, coexisting with anxiety, and finding home in nature. She has been performing in festivals and showcases locally and around the country participating in Oregon Country Fair, Any Patch of Grass, Northwest Folklife, Portland Folk Festival, Imagine Festival, Belltown Bloom, Duwamish River Festival, Song Suffragettes (Nashville), and Open Folk (LA). 

Collaborative talk on Abject Expressionism

Ash Yang Thompson 
Jaydra Johnson 

with readings from Low: Notes on Art and Trash (Johnson) and Still Worm (Yang Thompson)

Doors 6:30

Event 7

CONCERT EVENTBRITE LINK TO RSVP : : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1731796864039?aff=oddtdtcreator

Jeremy Ferrara (LA)
https://jeremyferraramusic.com/

“Certainty and clarity are like everything else, they come and go”

These are the kind of gentle reminders you get when you listen to LA based songwriter Jeremy Ferrara.
Regarded as “open-hearted and determinedly honest” by Americana UK, and as “exuding as much gentleness and vulnerability as anything in Nick Drake’s catalog” by Americana Highways, Ferrara has carved out a unique space in the indie-folk landscape. Touring the US and Europe multiple times and signing to a label, all while working as the guitarist in fellow rising star Margo Cilker’s touring band- rarely do folk songwriters remain as centered, as earnest, and as entertaining. Ferrara comes through on his latest album Darkness Is A Bright Sound (produced by Luke Temple) with a full band, heralding his philosophical delivery of songs full of gentle acceptance and purified positivity.

Rosy boa is a three-piece band based in Portland, OR. Our sound is a dreamy slowcore with songs inspired by life events, real love, dreams, and time.

https://rosyboa.bandcamp.com/album/love-truth-time

Doors 7 PM
Show 7:30 PM

CONCERT EVENTBRITE LINK TO RSVP :: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1788174250319?aff=oddtdtcreator

Sophie Bird
Sophie Bird is a Singer / Songwriter now residing in Portland. 
 
Sophie Creates
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc5JCVX3OCnechvXyiOjIIg

Doors 7 PM
Show 7:30 PM

WHAT WE HOLD & LEAVE BEHIND: Photos of Special Objects and Linked Poems by Oregon Senior Seasoned Poets

This poetry reading and slideshow is a collaboration between photographer Jim Lommasson and poet Willa Schneberg.
Jim Lommasson has created “What We Carry” projects around the U.S. with the houseless and with refugee communities who had to flee their homelands. Willa Schneberg is the recipient of two fellowships and the Oregon Book Award in Poetry from Literary Arts.

 This event showcases a project which celebrates the lives of Oregon seasoned senior poets, including Paulann Petersen, Kim Stafford, Carlos Reyes and Ingrid Wendt. Jim Lommasson photographed and printed images of objects of special significance from over 20 of these master poets— objects that reveal what truly matters to them— acknowledgments of well-lived lives in terms of work, family, identity, place and relationships. These elder poets paired photos of their objects with poems, and hand-wrote them in the white space of their 19” x 13” digital prints.

In this 90-minute program, slides of the finished works of image and poem will be projected, as each poet reads the poem associated with their special object.

After diagnosis, the fact was that Austin Gross lived in his home country. He sat on the porch squinting like a potato and it was a comforting thing to imagine: rock-climbing with a blindfold. 'Can swim, eyes open,' he jotted and covered his eyes again. Sun, centrifuge, prognosis, bird-listening. The collision shaped genres like tectonic ripples. Windows open, a story while forgetting. 'I am a memory eater.'
Aras was furloughed from prison that summer. Five years before, she'd missed their movie plan, and the fact was that since then, she lived in her home country. Furlough, Aras wrote, was 'no-time.' They investigated the situation together.

A conversation with the author will follow readings from Forgetful Secretary.
Aras, to whom in any case the elected government refuses entry, will participate by correspondence.
Physical copies from Varamo Press in Belgium will be available for leaf-through and purchase. 

Eventbrite : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bad-day-rodeo-as-above-saint-carolina-at-mother-foucaults-tickets-1767355510909?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bad Day Rodeo: 
https://www.instagram.com/baddayrodeo?igsh=NzZtNjBqNWNuOWw2&utm_source=qr

https://open.spotify.com/album/0AUSrW6LYVnMILyPFzDy7N?si=TuiqRHmuRm2-zJ0xy8yMuw

Concert
Frankie Gothic, Glass Egg, Frecks Music

Doors 7PM

Show 7:30 

A CONVERSATION IN POEMS — Four Poets Dialoguing 

Thursday, Oct. 23, 8— 9:30PM

Gerald Wagoner, raised in Eastern Oregon, who currently lives Brooklyn, New York, is the author of When Nothing Wild Remains. Diane Corson, lived in Montana for many years, her latest collection is Along the Fault of Me.  
John Miller, his latest collection entitled Olympic, was born and bred Brooklyn, as was Willa Schneberg, whose most recent book is The Naked Room. In a round robin fashion, these poets will read poems in conversation with each other, one poem will inspire another, to spark further exchange among themselves and audience members.

Concert
Leo Moon
Claire Conway (Seattle)

https://www.claireconwaymusic.com/about

Doors 7 PM

Show 7:30 PM

Book Launch with Ben Morea and Detritus Books

Visionary leftist radical and artist Ben Morea visits Portland to launch his new book of interviews with Olympia's Detritus Press, Full Circle.
Morea will speak with historian Abigail Susik about his activism and art between the 1960s and the present.

Doors open at 6:45 for a display of Morea's paintings.

Singer / Songwriter - Single Release

Nate Norton & the Tempest
Apocalyptic folk for the dark night of the soul
https://natenorton.bandcamp.com/
 

6:30 Doors
7PM Show 

Presenting a ~collaborative 2-part event~ with Mother Foucault's Bookshop & SCRAP:

NIGHT COLLAGE at SCRAP, followed by POSTAL SOCIAL at Mother Foucault's!

At 6 pm, join us in the SCRAP studio to make collage art and customized stationary, then at 7pm, we'll all head to Mother Foucault's (a short 3-minute walk) to gather for communal letter-writing and tea!

Drop-ins welcome before SCRAP closes at 7pm—then find us at Mother Foucault's until 8pm!

6-8 pm | Ages 7+.
Youth must be accompanied by an adult.
Materials & tools provided (including collage material & tools, pens, typewriters, stationary, envelopes). Postage stamps not provided.

Locations:
6-7pm: The new SE SCRAP Education Studio! 619 SE 6th Ave
7-8pm: The newly-moved Mother Foucault's Bookshop! 715 Southeast Grand Ave

Reserve your seats before the event by hitting RSVP! 

Space is limited to our studio capacity.

This is a FREE event at both locations, but donations to SCRAP are always welcome, encouraged, and appreciated. :)

Afternoon Matinee Concert with Indie Pop & Singer / Songwriters - 

Neal Morgan & The Blue Knots
 
Doors 1PM
Show 1:30PM 

Neal Morgan
 https://www.wweek.com/music/2025/03/11/portland-drummer-neal-morgan-shares-his-newest-24-song-album-paw/

The Blue Knots
https://www.portlandmercury.com/music/2025/04/21/47751125/album-review-the-blue-knots-share-their-sun-dappled-debut-becoming-noise

The Holy Hour: An Anthology on S*x Work, Magic, and the Divine: A Portland Celebration!!!

Saturday, Oct 11th
6:30-9:30 pm
6 pm doors
Free
(Tip your performer$!)

This event is about honoring and centering divinity and dignity within the stories, lives and lived experiences of workers. There will be literary readings, performance art, a book signing and a celebratory atmosphere. Anthology contributors Julia Laxer, Romy Blue, Uriah Fate and Moonyeka— (plus others!) will be present to share onstage and sign books afterwards. We especially welcome the local worker community to attend! This anthology is created by and for workers— this night is for you!!! Allies welcome

RSVP
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-celebrates-the-holy-hour-readings-performance-art-tickets-1751256137249?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

BYOB!!!
This event is free— bring $$$ to tip the performers if you’re inclined!

15 copies will be available to purchase in-store— Please arrive early to ensure you are able to purchase a copy, or purchase one at:
https://www.workinggirlspress.com/store/p/the-holy-hour

Concert -
Benefit for Gaza Soup Kitchen
https://gazasoupkitchen.org/

With

Two Boys Alright

Change Life

Dirt Twins

Phone Voice

Doors 6 PM
Show 7 PM

Songwriter Jacob Miller

Firmly rooted in American traditional music, Jacob Miller’s musical sensibilities remain timeless but challenge the construct of folk, pop, and singer-songwriter genres. 

Touting a resume of extensive touring to national television performances, he has garnered praise from talents such as James Taylor and  Nick Jonas, with Taylor stating that he believes “Miller has really got something.” These sentiments are echoed by Miller’s followers and supporters.

Jacob’s evocative music strives to create a lush landscape for the listener. With a string of singles, two studio albums – This New Home (2019) and Around My Head (2022) – and an EP of cover songs, Miller has created a wide library of music over the years. His upcoming album, Bask in the Wonder, is set to release in 2025  and features new, original songs that beautifully build upon his past style, with engaging lyrics and an uplifting sound. Co-produced by Sam Weber, Miller’s new album calls out as a beacon to everyone – whether you want something to dance to, reflect upon, or to simply be told a story, Jacob Miller has something for you.

https://jacobmillermusic.net/

Ollella(Seattle) - Cellist / Songwriter Ollella 

She has since created a life as a multidisciplinary artist as an indie-folk cellist, vocalist, and songwriter. Trained as a classical cellist since the age of nine, the Seattle musician merges her technical string background with authoritative vocals and live-looping. Described as “really outstanding” by NPR Music’s Bob Boilen and “so tastefully done” by Michelle Zauner (a.k.a. Japanese Breakfast), Ollella blends the acoustic with the contemporary, folk with pop, and tenacity with softness, pulling on influences such as Feist, Cat Power, and Sylvan Esso.

She is a two-time finalist in the NPR Tiny Desk Contest (2024, 2022), has had music featured in film and TV, and is a frequent collaborator with others. She finds herself drawn to music because it unlocks a particularly organic flavor of humanity – one that fits the type of world she believes in.

”Ollella” is pronounced oh-lel-uh.

https://www.ollellamusic.com/about 

Doors 7
Show 7:30PM

Tickets

3 pm to 5 Pm

Book launch for Josuee Hernández’s debut novel What We Did To Each Other, which focuses on the lives of two first-gen Latinos growing up in the Pacific Northwest as they navigate assimilation, racism and classism in their own gendered ways. Yesenia, wanting to fit in, dyes her hair blond and dons blue contacts to pass as white at her new school. Guillermo, a classmate, is immediately suspicious of “Jessie” Rivera, the new blond girl in class. As he tugs and unravels her mystery, she realizes she’ll do anything to keep it.

Josuee Hernández teaches K-12 when he's not reading or writing.
He was raised in Oregon

Twin Bridges’s melancholic aesthetic is the result of fusing classical and chamber music’s instrumentation and musicality with folk and indie-rock. “Born out of personal turmoil and heartbreak, Twin Bridges' music is a testament to the healing power of art. “ - Voicemag UK
 
https://audiosportrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fertile-ashes

Tispur -  is a folk project led by Samwise Carlson in Portland, OR. They’re known for their angelic voice, unique finger-style guitar technique and gently hypnotic, moving performances akin to the spirits of Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, and Joanna Newsom.
 
https://tispur.bandcamp.com/album/tispur

7 Doors
7:30 PM Show

Come to Postal Social hour at Mother Foucault’s

Write letters and postcards while drinking tea and also somehow socializing.
We’ll provide pens, typewriters, stationary, envelopes…bring yourself, a friend, your favorite quill pen if that’s your thing…and drop by between 2-4 pm

For introverts (well, one introvert at a time), there is the option to grab your cup of tea and head upstairs to the secret solo letter-writing desk, and participate in a quieter fashion.

Triple feature including Portland poet and translator, Monika Cassel, who will read her translations of the work of German author Daniela Danz, Joshua Pollock reading the word of Mexican author, Salvador Elizondo, and poet / translator pair Andra Schwarz and Caroline Wilcox Reul, who share some work from the German.

Come have a glass of wine and a listen!

Tuesday, September 23, 2025
7:00 p.m.

Caroline Wilcox Reul is the translator of In the morning we are glass, by Andra Schwarz (Zephyr Press, 2021) and Who Lives by Elisabeth Borchers (Tavern Books, 2017), both from the German. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Exchanges, LIT Magazine, The Columbia Journal, ANMLY, the Arkansas International, and others.

Andra Schwarz  (andraschwarz.com) is a German poet and author of Tulpa (2023) and Meteor (2023). Her first poetry collection, In the morning we are glass, was translated from the German by Caroline Wilcox Reul and published by Zephyr Press in 2021. She has been awarded residencies for her work in various European countries such as Austria, Latvia, Czech Republic and Poland, and is currently in residence at the Iowa International Writing Program.

Monika Cassel (www.monikacassel.com) is the co-translator, with Christopher Nelson, of Barbara Köhler’s Niemands Frau (Nobody’s Wife), forthcoming from Green Linden Press. Her translations have appeared most recently in Orion, Poetry Daily, and Best Literary Translations, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Guesthouse, and Denver Quarterly. She was awarded Poetry Magazine’s 2024 John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation and has received fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association and Vermont Studio Center

Daniela Danz (www.chiragon.de) was born in Eisenach in 1976. She has authored five books of poetry, most recently Portolan (2025) and Wildniß (2020), two novels, a libretto, and an essay collection. Danz’s numerous awards include the 2019 German Prize for Nature Writing. She is the director of “Demokratisch Handeln,” an organization sponsoring youth competitions to foster democracy; in 2024 she curated the city of Cologne's Poetica 9 festival in 2024 on the theme “After Nature."

Joshua Pollock is a poet and translator, among other things. His work can be found in magazines including Chicago Review, jubilat, Vestiges, and Diagram. His translation of José Vicente Anaya's Hikuri (Peyote) was published in 2020 by The Operating System, and his translation of Salvador Elizondo's The Secret Crypt was published in 2022 by Dalkey Archive Press. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as operations coordinator for Street Books, a mobile library and harm reduction outreach project serving people who live outside and at the margins.

Salvador Elizondo (1932-2006) was a Mexican experimental novelist, poet, and critic. His works include Farabeuf, or the Chronicle of an Instant (1965), The Secret Crypt (1968), The Graphographer (1972), Elsinore: A Notebook (1988), and Theory of Hell (1993). He won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1965 for his first novel, Farabeuf o la crónica de un instante, and was awarded the Mexican National Prize for Letters in 1990.