Back Fence PDX: Day of the Dead/All Souls benefit for THE DOUGY CENTER

XRAY.fm presents Back Fence PDX: Gone But Not: All Souls/Day of the Dead stories and extravaganza. A fundraiser for The Dougy Center.

Live stories to commemorate those who we remember from past Back Fence PDX favorites, Actor and Artist, VIN SHAMBRY (PDX) and Emmy-Nominated Writer from the Ellen Degeneres Show/Moth Radio Hour performer, BRIAN FINKELSTEIN (LA); along with Oregon Book Award Winner MATTHEW DICKMAN (PDX), whose poems have appeared in the New Yorker and The London Review of Books; and KAREN FINNEYFROCK (SEA) who has traveled to Nepal as a Cultural Envoy, and of her book, The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door, Sherman Alexie said, “It is a hilarious, exciting and painful as anybody’s teenage years. Read it, please.”

HOSTED by B. Frayn Masters + Mindy Nettifee

DJ Blind Bartimaeus will be spinning Gospel and Soul, snacks to feast on from ALMA chocolate, Saint Cupcake, and Porque No, a flower altar provided bySpellbound Flowers, a raffle, plus XRAY.fm will be on hand to record your 1-3 minute story about a loved one. 

Doors open and EVENT festivities BEGIN at 6:30PM, Stories 7:30, raffle, DJ and other happenings untl 10PM.