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Thanks Ian Lynam for designing these awesome brochures just back from the printer! Inside you’ll find the scoop on all of our 2010 programs, field trips and events.
Click here to download the PDF or send us an e-mail and we’ll mail you a copy.
We’ve received quite a few inquiries about the Chinatown tours this Saturday and Sunday. We have had to field questions ranging from “are the the tours free?” “can we just show up?” “can you put me on the wait list?” “can’t you make space for more?” and “will you run the tour again?”. The answer to all of the preceding questions is emphatically NO.
Both tours are sold out and filled to capacity. We are committed to keeping events small in scale. We believe people learn best in intimate groups. That is why we limit the size of the tours.
Due to the high demand for this trip, we have secured a venue to accommodate the general public for Dr. Wong’s lecture portion. Dr. Wong’s lecture will take place at:
UO White Stag building
70 NW Couch St
Saturday 5PM | Sunday 4PM
Attending the lecture is by donation
Our events cost money, time and resources to put on. We have to pay rent and insurance on our office, our local print shop to print our posters, web and e-mail programs, our guest lecturer to come from Seattle to speak and arrange accommodations. That is not to mention the sweat and dedication we put into researching, promoting and organizing these events. Compared to other tours, our trips are cheaper and without question, the information much more substantive. So until the major grants start rolling in, we have no choice but to try to price these tours as affordable as we can while raising the capital to make the project economically sustainable.
If you want to be sure to get a spot on tours, the best thing you can do is to join the club. Members receive great benefits including signing up for events before they become available to the general public. Want to make sure you get a spot to next month’s field trip? Then sign up and support the work that you believe in.
Saturday and Sunday’s Chinatown tour have both officially sold out. We have a handful of tickets for both days available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Purest Cafe (115 SW Ash St). Good luck!
The tour’s gotten some great press. Check out Ben Brink’s great slide-show in today’s Oregonian. And then follow these links for more coverage:
Ace Hotel blog
http://blog.acehotel.com/post/698123094/sweetcakes#notes-698123094
Asian Reporter
http://www.asianreporter.com/stories/local/2010/17-chinatown.htm
Brian Libby’s blog
http://chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchitecture/2010/06/short-films-chinatown-tours-and-talking-midcentury-modern.html
CORE 77
http://www.core77.com/blog/events/a_forgotten_history_tour_get_yourself_some_culture_portland-style_16720.asp
Dave Knows Portland
http://portland.daveknows.org/2010/06/14/june-19-20-sweet-cakes-long-journey-a-walking-tour-of-portlands-chinatown/
Neighborhood Notes
http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/news/2010/06/sweet_cakes_long_journey_a_walking_tour_of_portlands_chinatown/
Portland Chinese Times
http://www.portlandchinesetimes.us/news/w20100611/news.php#news3
Portland Department of Transportation
http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?a=304764&c=45195
Thanks Karl Lind and Elias Foley for this great documentation from Northwest Passage!
Special thanks to Karl Lind for this video preview of the Chinatown tour, June 19 and 20.
Space is filling quickly for next week’s Chinatown tour — we are more than half filled up for both tours. Being the first time we are offering the same tour twice, this is fantastic news. Sign up now while there’s still space on our events page.
As a reminder, the first ever Dill Pickle Book Club will discuss Dr. Wong’s Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon, next Tuesday, June 15th at the Waypost (3120 N Williams).
Book Club is free and open to the public. Pick up a copy of the book and read more here.
Woodlawn School mural by Isaka Shamsud-Din
This Sunday, the Dill Pickle Club is in the running for a STOCK grant for our upcoming publication, Walls of Pride, a guide book and audio tour of African American murals in Portland, as researched by Robin Dunitz. This will be our third time in the running (the last two times we lost by a paltry handful of votes). Unmoved, we are back for a third bid at the prize.
STOCK is a public dinner event and presentation series which uses direct democracy to fund artist projects. Diners pay a modest $10 for a meal of homemade soup and other local delicacies, and the chance discuss and vote on which artist proposal will receive the evening’s proceeds. The dinner’s profits immediately become the artist grant, which is awarded according to the choice of the diners.
The details:
Sunday, June 6th,
6-8PM
Disjecta
8371 North Interstate Avenue
Cost: $10 (pay at the door)
RSVP to: portlandstock@gmail.com
Please attend and support this great project! Read the full proposal and see more images after the jump.
See you there!
Thanks all who contributed to our Oregon History Comics Kickstarter project! In just three weeks, we were able to raise $2500 for the project. We are overwhelmed with your generosity. A heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who made this project a reality.
It’s still not too late to contribute to the project, and there will undoubtedly be unforeseen costs. There’s still five days left to go, so tell your friends! In the coming days, we’ll be releasing more details about the comics and getting ready to send out packages.
We have a limited number of comics available for mail-order. Head to our publications page to pick up a copy.
We have just 10 days to go on Kickstarter to raise money for our Oregon History Comics project! If you want to support local artists and be a part of creating creative, engaging history stories, hop on over to Kickstarter to donate and learn more about the project.
With history comic #1, about the famous and anonymous people buried in Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery, we’re getting rolling on history comic #2, which will be about Portland’s infamous and influential all ages music venue the X-Ray Cafe. I met this morning with Tres Shannon, who started the club with friend Benjamin Arthur Ellis, and now runs VooDoo Doughnuts. He’s quite the character! We discussed how his club’s regulars were so freaky they scared off West Burnside’s drug dealers, the Portland music scene in the early nineties and his friendly Labrador, Oprah Winfrey. Perfect material for a short comic book.
If you’re antsy to get your hands on a copy of the first issue: good news! The Lone Fir Cemetery is now available in two PDX locations: Reading Frenzy (921 SW Oak) and Floating World Comics (20 NW 5th). Stop on by to grab a copy!
Jason at Floating World
The goods at Reading Frenzy
