About us
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
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Author Reading and Launch Party: Chrys Buckley with Domi Shoemaker
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, USBOLD is thrilled to host a reading and launch for Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays by Chrys Buckley. Chrys will be in conversation with Domi Shoemaker.
Celebrate Chrys Buckley’s award-winning debut, a fierce and lyrical exploration of albinism, disability, visibility, and the power of story. Chrys will be in conversation with Domi Shoemaker of Corporeal Writing, sharing reflections on the writing process, featured excerpt readings, and behind-the-scenes book moments. Experience the blend of humor, music, memory, and truth-telling that defines this mixtape of essays. Featuring live acoustic music by Tracy McFarland. The main event will be followed by book signing.
Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays
Winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Nonfiction
Chrys Buckley was born with albinism, which means she has no pigment and she is legally blind. From an early age, she realized that while she was the blind one, it was hard for other people to see her as a real person.Chrys often felt like a blank white canvas that everyone painted their assumptions about disability and paleness onto, rendering her invisible.
With warmth, compassion, wit, and lyricism, Chrys examines albinism, disability, blindness, synesthesia, dysfunctional relationships, self-betrayal, family discord, true-crime pop culture and true crimes on the smaller stage of our real lives, discrimination in medical education, and the power of words and writing.This literary mixtape is an exploration of seeing, not seeing, being seen, and not being seen. It's a reclaiming of the real, particular self that too often gets overlooked and obscured by tropes and projections. Each essay is a love song: to place, to memory, to music across decades, to books, to science and medicine, to the land and the sea and the sky. Underscoring all the stories and contemplations is the steel will of a writer screaming in vivid color to make her flawed individual heart visible.
Chrys Buckley’s work has appeared in The Sun, Shark Reef, and Aerial. A two-time finalist in MTV’s I’m from Rolling Stone writing contest, Chrys has won the R.L. Gilette Scholarship, the Sophie Kerr Gift in English Literature, and the Friends in Art Award. Chrys lives and writes in Portland.
Domi J. Shoemaker is a queer, gender-flexing disabled writer working where body, pulse, and narrative meet. A longtime co-conspirator with Lidia Yuknavitch at Corporeal Writing, Domi cultivates spaces that elevate the voices of marginalized writers. Their work appears in [PANK], Nailed, and other literary corners where body-forward writing lives.
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.
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Children’s Storytime: Sue Dockstader, The Adventures of Henry the Field Mouse
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, USBOLD invites you to a very special children’s storytime with author Sue Dockstader.
Sue will be here to read from The Adventures of Henry the Field Mouse and share her activity book! Join Henry, the tiny but curious field mouse and his wildlife friends on their escapades exploring the English countryside!
Children ages 3-7 will be delighted by these enchanting tales of friendship and adventure.***
Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.
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Indigo’s Twentieth Anniversary Party
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, USBOLD is what it is in part because of its sister business, Indigo: Editing, Design, and More, which sponsors all Bold events and whose community has supported us so much. Where one business thrives, so does the other, so we see them as truly interconnected. And where one gets to celebrate, so does the other—so help us celebrate Indigo's twentieth anniversary!
Indigo Is Twenty!
From a single editor with a used desktop computer to a team of seventeen editors, designers, ebook conversion specialists, indexers, and audiobook producers, Indigo has grown tremendously.
We're grateful for how our community has flourished over the past twenty years thanks to people like you, our clients, team members, interns, students, mentors, family, and friends. Please join us in celebrating our community and this important landmark as we head into our next twenty years!
Come have a drink and charcuterie on us, meet members of the Indigo team if you haven't already, network with writers, and enter a raffle to win a bundle of Indigo clients' books.
Please RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigos-twentieth-anniversary-party-tickets-1984149023140?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.
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Book Publishing Q&A
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, USJoin us for a monthly Q&A about all things publishing and books!
Join Ali Shaw—co-owner of BOLD Coffee & Books and owner of Indigo: Editing, Design, and More—for an in-person Q&A about the publishing process, the business of writing, and the book world in general. If you have questions about how to start your publishing journey, bring them! If you’ve always wondered about something more obscure, like how to tell if an antique book is a first edition or what librarians do at trade shows, bring those too!
Free and open to the public.
Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.
1 attendee
Past events
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