What we’re about
Welcome! We are a coffee shop bookstore located in SW Portland featuring great coffee and diverse books. We host readings and book launches on Friday and Saturday evenings, and children's storytime on Saturday mornings. We also host recurring write-ins, writing contests, and open mics. https://boldcoffeeandbooks.com
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- BOLD Spoken Word Open MicBOLD Coffee & Books, Portland, OR
We want your BOLD stories!
Come to our monthly open mic to share your latest work in progress or previously published piece. We welcome short stories, personal essays, poetry, slam, and other spoken word art forms.
10% off for performers!
Arrive at 5:00 to sign up and get your beverage. The mic goes on at 5:30 p.m. 15-minute time limit. No theme. BOLD is a safe place. We strive to uplift stories by and about people from underrepresented and diverse communities. We do not tolerate hate speech of any kind.
See you there!
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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.
- Author Reading, Pamela Reitman,Charlotte Salomon Paints Her LifeBOLD Coffee & Books, Portland, OR
BOLD is thrilled to host a reading with Pamela Reitman, author of Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life.
Pamela Reitman will talk about how the young German-Jewish Charlotte Salomon created a masterpiece of 20th-century art while in exile, alone without identity papers, in the south of France. Entitled “Life? Or Theater?” the work is comprised of 869 watercolor/gouache paintings that tell the story of coming-of-age during Hitler’s rise to power and coming-to-terms with a family legacy of suicides. Pamela will share the artist’s creative process, how she struggled against madness and the impulse to die by suicide, and finally risked her life to save her work. Her talk will focus on the power of art to transform suffering.
Pamela Reitman is an award-winning writer with numerous publications, Director Emerita of Makor Or: A Jewish Meditation Center in San Francisco, retired from public health, with community service reducing the stigma of mental illness, and a lay-ordained Zen Buddhist.
Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 7:00 p.m.
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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.
