20,000 READERS ENGAGED
World-renowned authors engaged with our local community from the concert hall to classrooms. Our season of events featured more than 150 authors whose lectures, readings, and discussions centered on important issues ranging from America’s cultural history and its role in our current sociopolitical climate, to the necessity of the arts as a vehicle to empower marginalized communities.
PORTLAND ARTS & LECTURES In addition to speaking to a sold-out audience at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, our visiting authors engaged with readers and writers of all ages in the community through forum discussions with professional writers and visits with public high school students.
2,500 annual subscribers. “ Literary Arts is exciting, inspiring, invigorating,
exhilarating. The air around it crackles—this is literary engagement at its very best, proving the vitality and importance of storytelling in the community. What a delight to take part in it!” — Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book, 2019/20 Portland Arts & Lectures speaker
The final event of the 2019/20 Portland Arts & Lectures season, An Evening with Colson Whitehead, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will now be held as a virtual event on September 24, 2020.
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