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PLEASE NOTE: Wordigo tickets may be purchased online until 4:00pm on Saturday, October 4th. After that time, tickets must be purchased at the door by cash, check or with a credit/debit card.

 

Saturday, October 4th

7:30 - 10:00pm

Design Within Reach

1200 NW Everett [MAP]

Portland Street Car stops at NW 10th and 11th. On-street parking available.

 

 

A Benefit for Write Around Portland

Saturday, October 4th at Design Within Reach

 

Wordigo 3 is your kind of celebration, designed exclusively by Write Around Portland for word lovers like you!

What's to love?

  • Pools of typewriters for you to create-your-own-story
  • MadLibs written by the best wordsmiths we know
  • Wordigo Poker invented just for this event
  • Timeless games like Boggle and Speed Scrabble

 

 

And then there's Wordigo's ambiance:

  • A signature cocktail & delicious desserts and hors d’ouevres
  • Great music by DJ Safi
  • A silent auction of Moleskine journals designed by local artists and celebs - listed below
  • Designer furniture in the Pearl District as our backdrop

 

Where else could you and the rest of Portland’s word lovers have this much fun? Only at Wordigo!

 

 

Delicious Desserts & Hors d'ouevres by: Vibrant Table and Provvista Specialty Foods

Wine by: A to Z Wineworks and Vino

Wordigo Cocktail by: Oregon Bartenders Guild

Additional Food & Drink by: Trader Joe's, Tazo Tea and Peet's Coffee & Tea

 

Order tickets online until 4:00pm on Saturday, October 4th. After that time, tickets can be purchased at the door by check, cash or credit/debit card.

General Admission $35

Supporter $75

Patron $150

 

Special silent auction of Moleskine Journals customized by local luminaries. Bid on journals by artists including:

Sam Adams, Commissioner and Mayor-Elect, City of Portland

Adam Arnold, Fashion Designer

Andrea Benson, Mixed Media Artist

Brian Doyle, Author and Editor of University of Portland's magazine

Carson Ellis, Illustrator and Designer of the Decemberists' album covers

Gary Hirsch, Doodlehouse Illustrator and Painter

Philip Iosca, PICA Visual Artist

Denis Johnson, Poet and Novelist

BT Shaw, Poet and Editor of the Oregonian's Sunday Poetry Column

Zoe Trope, Author of Please Don't Kill the Freshman

Alison O'Donoghue, Visual Artist

Bruce Polone, Stone and Terrazzo Artist

Michael Powell, Owner of Powell's Books

Jim Riswold, Contemporary Artist

Manya Shapiro, Textile Artist & Sculptor

Andi Zeisler, Co-Founder and Editor of Bitch Magazine

 

Wordigo is generously sponsored by:

          

 

 

 

Photos of last year's Wordigo by Reversed Lens Photography.