Matthew Dickman and Joseph Millar reading this Sunday!

February 19, 2013

We are very excited about this reading, part of Mountain Writers Series, which starts at 7pm this Sunday, 2/24.

Details about the poets and ticketing can be found here:
http://www.mountainwriters.org/events/special.html

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Seed Swap!

February 19, 2013

PDX Permaculture seed swap and potluck this Friday, 2/22, from 6-9:30!

The organizers posted the following guidelines on their Meetup site to make the gathering enjoyable for all:

Bring seeds! to offer into the swap.  It’s a seed swap, not a seed giveaway.  While we’d like to focus primarily on vegetables, medicinals and other “functional” species, [...]

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Valentine’s do-over

February 15, 2013

Are you in the dog house for forgetting Valentine’s Day? Or you just don’t think it’s very special to share a special night with hundreds of other date-goers?
Fear not! TaborSpace favorite mandolinist Tim Connell will be back this Saturday at 7pm in the Commons. Guitarist Allen Matthews will be joining him for a concert entitled [...]

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Ash Wednesday, meditation, and the brain

February 10, 2013

All over the world this Wednesday, February 13th, Christians will be celebrating Ash Wednesday.
This holy day marks the beginning of the season of Lent, a period of 40 days leading up to the Easter celebration. During this time, Christians meditate on the death of Jesus and how they themselves can “die” to habits that are [...]

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Save the date!

February 10, 2013

Bull Run Waiver.org will be hosting a talk and town hall meeting in the Commons on Thursday, February 21st at 7pm.

The talk is entitled “The future of Portland’s Bull Run water: your heritage, your health.”
Topics to be covered are the “increasing costs and changes in water quality…affecting livability in Portland,” and the “threats of covering [...]

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Writing conference this Saturday (1/26)!

January 22, 2013

As an events coordinator at TaborSpace, I am constantly surrounded by generous and talented people.
From Oregon Writers Colony’s free Kickstart Your Writing roundtables to Sebastian Parker Trio’s benefit concert for the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition last weekend, we are really lucky to have such gifted and giving folks in our community.
Local [...]

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day and fallow churches

January 21, 2013

To honor today and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s time on earth, I thought it would be appropriate to write a little about one of his beliefs and how it relates to the community we are growing here at TaborSpace.
I came across this very salient quote by Dr. King:
A nation that continues year after year [...]

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VIA Artistica at TaborSpace

January 20, 2013

All you artists know that the best route to inspiration is collaboration…but do you know about VIA Artistica?

This Portland treasure resides right here at TaborSpace, and is “designed to be an urban art retreat – a nurturing space to do art together with others. It’s as much about making art as it [...]

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The Dreadnoughts in concert this Saturday!

January 16, 2013

Jerry Keefe and The Dreadnoughts will be back in concert this Saturday from 7-9pm!
Always upbeat, this folk rock group is doing something to bring even more smiles to the community than just playing music…this show is a benefit for PPB’s Sunshine Division!
The Sunshine Divsion has been around since 1923, providing emergency food and clothing to [...]

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Volga Germans, the Vanport Flood, and the future of one little church

January 14, 2013

Yesterday I got totally sucked into this website about the Volga Germans of Portland: http://www.volgagermans.net/portland/index.html.  In the interest of full disclosure, the only other website that has this same rabbit hole effect on me is www.mylifetime.com (I can’t get enough of Dance Moms and Project Runway).  I seriously encourage you to check it out. [...]

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