Plazm, a Portland-based arts & culture magazine, is celebrating its 20th anniversary publishing the likes of David Byrne, Storm Tharp, and David Lynch and interviews with Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, the Magnetic Field’s Stephin Merritt and Gus Van Sant, and much more. “To my mind, we’re about importing and exporting culture,” editor and founder Josh Berger commented. You can be a part of the goodness by helping to get the next issue out through the Kickstarter below. Prizes include Jon Raymond, writer for Wendy and Lucy and HBO’s recent Mildred Pierce mini-series, naming a future character after a person of your choice.
Archive for May, 2011
Sid Miller Launches Crow Arts Manor: Arts Education is a Right
I always love how the Tin House summer workshop lets you hear Steve Almond talk about sex writing, or Aimee Bender talk about the plot-driven plot, all for $15. Burnside Review editor-in-chief Sid Miller is founding a new writing/arts center, Crow Arts Manor, that will make it highly accessible to work with some of the city’s finest artists such as cartoonist Jesse Reklaw, fiction writers Monica Drake and Lidia Yuknavitch, poets Emily Kendal Frey (pictured below with Miller) and Zach Schomburg and Mercury journalist Marjorie Skinner to name a few. Similar to LA writing center Beyond Baroque, Miller would like “ongoing arts education to be a right, not a privilege.”
