Upcoming Calendar

Intro to Letterpress 6/8

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Learn to set movable lead type and print on a table-top hand press in the IPRC print shop. You’ll learn the vocabulary of printing and typesetting while getting a feel for this beautiful and historical process. Leave the class with a printed card and the satisfaction that comes with using 100-year-old equipment! Successful completion of this one-day class allows IPRC members access to open studio print hours so you can keep on printing!

Bring something for lunch, or lunch $ and an idea of what to print 25 words or less is best.

$70 members only

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Beginning Illustrator

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Learn the basics of making a face for your projects! Illustrator is the best program to design covers for your books or records, posters and flyers for your event or project, the basic look of your web-page, or packaging for the things you make. Come to class to with a project in mind and learn how to utilize this program to help you make the most of your ideas.

$30 members / $45 nonmembers

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IF NOT FOR KIDNAP HOSTS POETS JOHN BEER + JOE HALL

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Book Arts 101

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In this class students will learn the basics of bookbinding. This class is great for both those who wish to pursue binding their own books and for those who want to hire a bookbinder to bind a project for them. We’ll talk about paper grain, various adhesives, and different papers and their suitability for a range of projects. Students will complete at least 3 binding structures and will learn some variations on these structures. Examples of numerous binding structures will help inspire your own work.

Instructor Bio:
Alisa Walton earned a BFA in Book Arts from Oregon College of Art & Craft. In addition to producing hand bound books she has also worked with a variety of printmaking techniques including lithography, etching, and letterpress printing. She has taught workshops in printmaking and bookbinding to both children and adults. Her work can be found in the retail shop at the Museum of Contemporary Craft and at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Cost:

$50 for members (all materials included)
$75 for nonmembers (all materials included)

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Tradition – Reading & Book Launch

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Join Marci Blackman and local PDX writers Cooper Lee Bombardier, Valentine Freeman, Cass J. Hodges and Galadriel Mozee for release of Blackman’s second novel, “Tradition,” following the story of Gus Weesfree, who witnessed a brutal crime in his hometown of Tradition, Ohio, at the age of 21 and fled, leaving behind the thriving African American community that existed there before and during World War II. Now an old man, he is compelled to confront his past only to find most of his memories buried by urban sprawl. Marci Blackman is an original member of the touring spoken word troupe, Sister Spit, and co-edited the ground-breaking anthology, “Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco. Blackman’s first novel, “Po Man’s Child,” received the American Library Association’s Stonewall award for Best LGBT Fiction and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Fiction.

Cooper Lee Bombardier is a visual artist, writer, and trans activist. Cooper’s writing has appeared in many periodicals, most recently in Original Plumbing, Lambda Literary Review, and The Rumpus. His work is published in several anthologies, including Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road, from City Lights Books and Trans/Love from Manic D Press. A veteran of the original Sister Spit tours, he has performed his writing all over the country. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he has just earned his Master’s degree in publishing and is pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing/Nonfiction at Portland State University. Peep his art and writing atwww.cooperleebombardier.com.

Valentine Freeman is a poet, creative director and right-on woman living with a blind cat and a genie on the West Coast. Her chapbook ‘What’s Truly is Feral’ is part of Marvin Bell’s New Poet Series from Lost Horse Press, and more work can be found in Publication Studio’s Weekday, the Portland Review, Livermore Street and elsewhere. She is not a real blonde.

Cass J. Hodges is a queer, a nerd and a story teller. A former camp counselor, horseback riding teacher and Christmas tree lot attendant, Cass believes in the story as a tool do dismantle oppression, and the poem as a pretty great way to say just about anything. A veteran of the Flagstaff Nat’l Poetry slam team, Cass has performed at events and festivals all over the western half of the country including the Seattle Slam and The Hugo House. His work can be found in The Portland Review, The Saltwater Quarterly and Original Plumbing Magazine. Check him out online at: codycoquet.wordpress.com

Galadriel Mozee is a fat, black, plant whisperer, story writer, poet, artist, and jam maker fighting for fat/food justice in Portland, OR, one homegrown home-cooked meal at a time. She writes about the prickly place where epiphany meets sorrow and has been featured on the walls of public bathrooms, in secret and hidden journals and in the Portland Women of Color Zine “How to live in the city of roses and avoid the pricks” Volume 3. You can read her writing at www.mypronounisjockey.wordpress.com and buy her jam at www.slowjamzpdx.wordpress.com but you can’t join her radical plant start CSA at www.commonrhythmfarm.wordpress.com because it’s all filled up for this year. Better luck next time.

We ask a $3-5 suggested donation, or the purchase of a book. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Comics and Zine Reading by Bike

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Join veteran zinesters for a 2 hour long zine reading by bike. The ride will meet at 5:15 at Floating World Comics and end at the IPRC at 7:15. This is a moderate ride with frequent stops. Please wear a helmet!

The IPRC will be holding their 15th birthday party that night and all riders are encouraged to stay for the party and enjoy beer, food and fun.

For more info contact:
A.M. O’Malley, info@iprc.org , IPRC, 503-827-0249

IPRC’s 15th Birthday Bash

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Back in 1998, the Independent Publishing Resource Center was born inside a tiny office space with a single copy machine, a coffee maker, and a stack of zines. Fifteen years later, the IPRC is a vital and vibrant community resource, now occupying a dynamic new 4,000 sq. ft. space, featuring Screenprinting and Letterpress studios, fourteen state-of-the-art Mac computers, two classrooms, a Creative Writing and Comics School, an art gallery, bindery, and one of the largest Small Press & Zine Libraries in the country. What was once a scrappy little Center continues to grow and grow–and this June it’s turning the big 15!

We hope you’ll join us in celebrating this major milestone in the IPRC’s history. Please save the date for the IPRC’s 15th Birthday Bash

Bike-In Movie: RAD!

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The 4th Annual Portland Zine Symposium Bike-In Movie! This year, we’ll show RAD at the IPRC @ 8:00PM. To help fund raise for PZS, there will be a suggested donation of $3-5 for the movie, plus popcorn and beverages for sale.

Burnside Review 9.1 Release Reading.

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Readers will include contributor’s to the issue, Donald Dunbar, A.M. O’Malley and Andrew Michael Roberts, plus Burnside Review authors Jeff Alessandrelli and Amalia Gladhart.

Beer and wine will be available for a small donation.

This event is free and open to the public.

Beginning Screenprinting

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In this class, students will learn the basics of screenprinting; tools and materials will be covered, as well as techniques ranging from pre-press, exposing an emulsion-coated screen, all the way through screen reclamation. Students will be able to print a one-color design of their choice, and should come to class with a black and white image (no gray washes) smaller than 8.5″ by 11″. After taking the IPRC screenprint class, students will have access to the IPRC screenprint studio during open studio hours.

$60 members only, all materials provided.

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