More September Events!

"Pickled Peppers Kitchen Band", Wednesday, September 11, 12PM, outside of the Portland'5 Centers for the Arts, SW Main St. and Broadway. Free. All ages. "The Pickled Peppers Kitchen Band plays Americana, folk, country/bluegrass as they used to be played in the old-time kitchens with instruments found around the house. The band‘s six members play the guitar, washboard, washtub base, spoons, harmonica, banjulele, banjo, kazoos, train whistles and other rhythm instruments. This all-women band has performed together since 2011." http://www.portland5.com/main-street/events/noontime-showcase-pickled-peppers-kitchen-band

PassinArt Theater Co. Presents, "Four Little Girls:  Birmingham 1963", Sunday, September 15, 7PM, Ellyn Bye Studio, 128 NW 11th Ave., Pdx. Free. "PassinArt Theater Company and Portland Center Stage will present a staged reading commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham bombing that helped to galvanize the civil rights movement." http://www.pcs.org/blog/item/four-little-girls-birmingham-1963/

"Homestead Day", Sunday, September 22, 11AM-4PM, Old Venersborg Schoolhouse, 24309 NE 209th St., Battle Ground, WA. "Ever wanted to learn how to preserve pickles, bake bread, grow a garden or even slaughter a chicken? Homestead Day volunteers will be sharing their knowledge and demonstrate some basic old-time skills including soap making, animal husbandry and the proper way to start a campfire. Learn how to spin wool, save seeds and more. WA extension volunteers will share how to make flavored vinegar and host a kid's bread and jam camp with bread in a bag and freezer jam for the kids to take home. Seed saving suggestions, seed giveaway and more." http://venersborg.blogspot.com/