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Hello! I helped organize a live reading at PRAx during OSU's literary journal---PRISM's----2025 launch party, and a year later, I'm joining up with a local artist to do another one! We'll be hosting Spoken Word for Peace on August 19th from 7-9pm in the common house of Coho Ecovillage, and we're looking for local artists to read their poetry and prose.

We're open to sign-ups for up to 3 pieces, totalling up to 10 minutes of spoken word combined. Mature content is absolutely fine (we'll have the family-friendly writing first and the mature writing later, so people with young children can stay for the first part and leave when it gets too much), but we ask for no "on-screen" sexual violence, torture, or detailed child/animal abuse. No AI-generated work, please!

If you're interested, please sign up here!

Our "official" description: Spoken Word for Peace is a community celebration of poetry and prose, featuring live readings from local writers and poets both established and new to the scene. There will be $10 charged at the door to all non-performers, every cent of which will go to Corvallis Palestine Solidarity's clean water for Gaza fundraiser!

If you have any questions, feel free to message me. We look forward to hearing your writing!

THEY ARE THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN SILENCE AND TOTAL ANNIHILATION.

Welcome to August Inferno!

The stage lights have gone dark. The crowd has vanished into chaos. Somewhere deep inside The 520, an unstoppable force has been unleashed. Now ten of the heaviest bands in the Northwest must fight their way through wave after wave of sonic destruction.

Armed with earth-shaking tone, devastating vocals, and enough volume to level city blocks, these heroes must survive the ultimate test of endurance: one night. One venue. No escape.

MISSION BRIEFING:
DATE: August 15
TIME: 1pm to 10pm
AGES: All Ages (21+ at bar)
LOCATION: The 520 Event Center
ADDRESS: 1236 Price Rd
TOWN: Albany, OR
PRICE: $25 Presale, $30 Door

www.pnwdynamic.com

Tomorrow at the 520 in Albany! Some progressive indie rock vibes. Come relax while it rains with us. I’ll be there dancing all night! ❤️
All Ages
21+ at the Bar
Save some money and snag your presale tickets before 12pm day on the Dynamic Booking website!

7pm, 6/27 at Old World Deli, artsy electrónica night!!

Handsome and nice local dude Ben Martens is releasing a rap/rave/weirdo album on Heterodox Records in Portland and celebrating with live hardware sets from Elektron wizard Production Unit Xero and genuine spliff enthusiast Chemotroph. Dylan de Honor is gonna do a short set, and there will be cool vizzies too.

$11 if you got it and there will be cool shirts and tapes for sale. All ages, nobody turned away unless they’re a real knob.

Unfortunately Kaigansen Butoh can’t make it but we will get him down here some day.

Good for fans of Aphex Twin, Clouddead, Venetian Snares, Dan Deacon, synths, etc