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Liam

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reading and writing in oregon
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Sapphic Spores ๐Ÿ„ Sunday, November 1 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM in Clatsop County. A guided mushroom walk with ID expert Brittany, hosted by Lesbian Culture Club. Tickets $35โ€“$50, BIPOC access free: events.humanitix.com/sapphic-spores by @futureprairie
Thank you WW for the good press on our first annual Oregon Trans Film Festival! I'm pleasedย and proud that all films I'm gonna screen tonight have a trans writer, a trans director, and/or a trans lead actor. Gratitude to our sponsors: Portland Events and Film Office (@portlandeventsandfilmoffice) and The Property Weirdos (@propertyweirdos)! by @futureprairie
Good morning ๐ŸŒ„ ๐ŸŒž ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป Texas is passing a law that allows new affordable housing to go up on commercial land statewide. They're making room for the construction of apartments on empty strip malls, dead office parks, and acres of parking lots. Cities canโ€™t block these ideas with their usual tricks anymore. No density caps below 36 units per acre. No height limits under 45 feet. No giant setbacks. No forcing developers to build seas of parking. Thirty-six units per acre means the creation of new apartments families can actually afford! Forty-five feet is the sweet spot for three to four story walk-ups, which are cheaper to build and fit into most neighborhoods. Texas basically just opened the floodgates for affordable housing...Imagine if Oregon did the same. Think about 82nd Ave, Barbur, or Sandy Boulevard's half-empty lots. Or any of the outside edges of Salem, McMinnville, or Hood River. These areas are often zoned Commercial Mixed Use (CM1, CM2, CM3), which already allow multifamily housing but cap densities around 20 units per acre or so, depending on the zone. A Texas-style law could override these caps, pushing densities to 36 units per acre or higher and allowing 3-4 story walk-ups without the need for costly high-rise construction (which kicks in above 45 feet due to stricter building codes)! Imagine converting empty space to thriving blocks of cheap apartments with cafes, taquerias, and small shops on the ground floor. Thousands more Portlanders could live closer to where they work, go to school, and hang out. Weโ€™ve taken some good first steps with middle housing reform, but not enough. Oregon desperately needs more multifamily options. A law like this would cut through endless neighborhood pushback and finally unlock affordable, sustainable housing where we need it most. Texans are getting it done. Why not us? by @futureprairie
Free public mycology walk! Thank you to the Lower Nehalem Community Trust (@lnctrust) for stewarding this land on Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain and welcoming us. ๐Ÿ Future Prairie is supported by the Fred W. Fields Fund of Oregon Community Foundation. by @futureprairie
men see women as full real people challenge ๐Ÿ–Š๏ธโŒ๐Ÿšซโœ–๏ธ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Paterson, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch by @futureprairie
Mushroom season is here! ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ‚ Join ID expert Brittany for Fall Fungal Friends, a talk on Oregon's autumn mushrooms at the Estacada Festival of the Fungus. ๐Ÿ“… Saturday, November 7 ยท 2 PM ๐Ÿ“ Estacada High School 355 NE 6th Ave, Estacada, OR 97023 โœจ Free ยท All ages Presented by Estacada Fungus Association. by @futureprairie
What a gift to read Weather by Jenny Offill, a book Iโ€™m 100% positive I will read again as soon as possible. Domestic life as fragments, jokes, chores, screens, commutes, and unanswered questions. Lizzie, the narrator, works at a university library and answers email for a climate podcast run by her friend/mentor. Strangers write in with their worst fears about climate collapse, whether to have children, where to buy land, etc. So part of her job is to append an obligatory note of hope. Lizzie is also managing an exhausted/exhausting brother in addiction/recovery, a young son, a tired but comfortable marriage, mice in the walls, and a developing crush. This book could have been 5X as long, and I would have loved it, but instead she trusts the fragments to carry us along...to let our imaginations fill in as we go. surprised it worked so well. Her brevity is absolutely breathtaking. pacing is immaculate! diction is plain and funny and exact. A short book about enormous feelings! I dream of writing a book this good someday...๐ŸŽ‡โ˜„๏ธ๐Ÿ”‘โœŠ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ by @futureprairie
๐ŸŒฒโœจ Call for Art โœจ๐ŸŒฒ on Wildwood by LAIKA! LGBTQIA+ Oregon-based working-class artists are invited to share thoughtful, nuanced feminist critique of the film, as textual art works and essay-style critique. โœ๏ธ 500โ€“2,500 words ๐ŸŒ Selected works will be shared online ๐Ÿ’ต $100 per published work Apply at futureprairie.com/apply ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ‚โœจ by @futureprairie
Mushroom Walk ๐Ÿ„ Sunday, November 15, 12:00โ€“2:30 PM at Bay City Arts Center. A free guided walk with ID expert Brittany. Free ยท All ages ยท Beginner friendly. by @futureprairie
๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Future Prairie invites LGBTQIA+ Oregon-based working-class artists to share textual art works and essay-style critique on themes of consent, refusal, and care ๐Ÿคฒ, desire of and toward land ๐ŸŒฒ, and water, data, and development in Oregon ๐Ÿ’ง. Pieces run 500โ€“2,500 words ๐Ÿ“, selected works will be shared online, and published work pays $100. Deadline is 12/1/26. Submit your work at futureprairie.com/apply ๐Ÿ”— by @futureprairie
Biennale College Blend โ€” Venice, Italy For art that mixes forms: film or video, plus two more. Ages 18โ€“30 ยท Artist + producer teams Only 6 teams ยท One $22,400 award (โ‚ฌ20,000) Apply by Sat, Oct 31 โ€” 2:59 PM Pacific labiennale.org by @futureprairie
A double-bill of beautiful performance Joe Kye โ€” through-lineage Shannon Stewart โ€” river, river, river Oct 23 + 24 โ€ข 7:30pm Reed College โ€” Greenwood Theater, Portland Tickets at risk-reward.org by @futureprairie

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