dinner @ salt fire & time 2/26

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Mark your calendars for February 26th, when we’ll be at Salt, Fire & Time (Portland’s first and only Community Supported Kitchen) for a dinner prepared by Tressa Yellig. We’ve been admirers of Tressa’s work from afar, and it’s an honor to kick off her “Community Feast” dinner series.

And what exactly is a Community Supported Kitchen (CSK)? From her site:

It is a sustainable model for community-scale food preparation and processing that honors culinary traditions and provides nutrient-dense foods. It is a place for community and community empowerment and nourishment. Through seasonal feasts, classes and volunteer opportunities, a CSK seeks to improve the transparency of food from farm to table.

At the dinner, we’ll give a short slide show of the past six months of programs, then give an sneak peak to the club’s 2010 trips (before they’re announced to the general public!). Cost is $35/person, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the club. For full details and to RSVP click here.

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status of the pickle

Hello all,

Sorry we have been quiet of late. We have been busy planning and gearing up for our 2010 programs. A few quick items of news:

Now that WORK | PROGRESS is over, the Dill Pickle Club will be moving out of the Eyeful Gallery. We are exploring a number of options, including maintaining a highly visible headquarters that would expand on our pop-up shop, as well as serve as resource center for participatory learning. We are looking to relocate somewhere in downtown or close-in Portland, even on a temporary basis. Do you own a vacant property or know someone who can afford us a free or very inexpensive space? Drop us a line and let us know!

This winter, the Dill Pickle is excited to kick off NORTHWEST PASSAGE, a 3-part dinner lecture series honoring under-acknowledged figures in Northwest music. The series will be an ongoing project focusing of the history of independent music in the region. Who are your unsung heroes of Portland music? We’ll be releasing full details in the next few weeks, so send us your suggestions.

Lastly, we’re very excited to tell you about our 2010 field trips. This year we have six trips planed! Built around the theme “Forgotten Histories,” these events will examine overlooked aspects of Oregon’s past. Full details will be announced at the end of the February.

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Dill Pickles featured on WKE

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Check out the podcast Ivy Lin (Dill Pickler #31, documentarian and a co-organizer of an upcoming tour on Chinatown) produced for her show, Current City on WK Entertainment!

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Clearing House around town

Dill Pickle Club publications are now available around town! The following is a list of fine retailers in Portland that now sell our books: Ampersand, Grass Hut, In Other Words, Land, Portland Art Museum, Powells, Reading Frenzy, and The Waypost. Dill Pickles publications are also available through Needles and Pens, Just Seeds and Quimbys.

Buying our publications helps support our work. As a note, you can automatically recieve our book releases delivered to your home when you become a Pickler. You can also purchase publications directly though us here.

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work | progress is over!

All good things must come to a close and WORK | PROGRESS is no exception. Hundreds of people saw the show, we raised a good chunk of money and the club received tremendous media coverage. Overall, the event was a great success.

The shop is currently closed and we are regrouping. We’re exploring a number of options, solidifying our 2010 programming and will be posting updates very shortly.

Thanks once again everyone for making the past month possible. We couldn’t have done it without you.

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our first piece of fan mail!

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dinner & presentations ~ this sunday!

Celebrate our accomplishments over the past year and get a look at 2010 with a seated dinner prepared by Dill Pickler Lucy Rockwell, Sunday, January 3rd at 6PM.

Lucy will be cooking a 3-course vegetarian meal, including:

  • Mixed green salad with corn and peppers
  • Cauliflower, pepper and caramelized onion enchiladas with slow cooked black beans, feta cheese and sour cream
  • Mexican chocolate cake with cinnamon whipped cream

The evening will feature a short slide show of the past six months by the Dill Pickle Club, and a look ahead to what’s in store for the new year. We will also have three very short presentations by folks who have helped us along the way, including:

Charles Overbeck (Eberhardt Press), who has printed all of the Dill Pickle Club’s posters and publications. Charles will tell us of his work at the print shop, which publishes small-edition radical publications and provides low-cost offset printing and binding services to the Portland community.

Brian Pietrowski (Vontundra Design), who has donated their labor in the creation of two hand-crafted display tables for the Dill Pickle Club. Brian will talk about the design house’s work, and how their mission, objectives and community-inspired approach aligns with the work of the club.

Matthew Stadler (Publication Studio), who will be publishing Dill Pickle Editions, a new line of hard-to-find out-of-print books on Northwest History. Matthew will speak on the new collaborative, including the project’s first publication: Twenty Seven Installations, a book chronicling the city’s first contemporary arts organization.

Space is limited to 25 attendees and is already half full! Beer will be available from Ninkasi Brewing.

Advance Registration – Limited to 30 People!

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last chance to see show!


This is the last week to see WORK | PROGRESS before it closes. We still have a great selection of inexpensively-priced art from some of Portland most prolific artists, including original works from Harrell Flecther, MK Guth, Bill Daniel, Brad Adkins, Brittany Powell and more!

Stop on by the Dill Pickle (NW 6th & Everett) to check out the show while you can. We’re open Wed – Sunday noon-6PM. All proceeds from sales help make our ongoing programming efforts possible.

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a few quick updates

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1. thanks mikey kappman JaMichael Kampmann and all the comics at new economy night. it was legendary.

2. the dill pickle shop is closed for the holidays. we will re-open for one final week: wed, dec 30 – sun, jan 3rd.

3. you can now sign up for the show closing and benefit dinner. dinner features a four-course vegetarian meal, as well as lectures/ presentations by the dill pickle club and some folks who have helped us get to this point, including eberhardt press, vontundra design and the publication studio. full info to be posted next week.

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seasons greetings from the dill pickles

It’s that time of year again — when journalists are busy compiling top ten lists, resolutions are made and we assess the last twelve months of our busy lives. The New Year provides a good opportunity to look back over the last six months of activity. In just a short period of time, we have led four diverse tours, released two publications and hosted a significant art show and events series, involving 25 socially engaged artists in the Northwest.

The coming year holds much in store. This winter, we’ll be introducing a monthly lecture series, launching a book line of out-of-print titles with The Publication Studio and offering a series of six field trips examining overlooked aspects of Oregon’s past. We are excited to tell you more about our 2010 programming, and will be releasing more information in the coming weeks.

If you value the work we do, we encourage you to consider us in your year-end giving. For just $50, you can help make our programs accessible to middle- and low-income individuals. In addition, you’ll get first crack at signing up for our trips, as well as a subscription to all our publications for an entire year. If you can’t swing $50, we have a six-month option avail for just $30. Full details are posted here.

As we look ahead to 2010, we are excited to continue to provide a space to examine critical issues in Oregon. We appreciate your support. And we can’t wait to see you there.

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