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PBF Cover to Cover: BAD DATES presented by Back Fence Live Storytelling & The Portland Book of Dates

Fri, Nov 4, 2022 from 8:00 pm PDT
The Village Ballroom, 704 NE Dekum St, Portland, OR 97211
A promotional image for the event, Bad Dates at the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover program.

Laugh and cringe your way through a live talk show interviewing Portland’s movers and shakers about the one horror we can all relate to—dating experiences gone awry. Brought to you by bestselling Portland Book of Dates authors, Eden Dawn and Ashod Simonian, in collaboration with award winning storytelling series Back Fence PDX.

Show guests include: Jessi Duley is the founder of Burn Cycle and its experiential fitness style! A curator of global travel adventures for her fellow reckless optimists! One of Portland Business Journal’s Women of Influence! And she can catch a beer in a moving raft!

Candace Molatore is a self-love advocate! A dreamy photographer! A branding consultant for companies like West Elm and Bumble! And her Instagram will also inspire you to really go for it with your next outfit!

Aaron Scott is co-host of NPR’s daily science podcast, Short Wave! He was also the host of OPB’s award-winning podcast “Timber Wars”! He can also throw a fabulous cocktail party from a remote desert cabin!

Vin Shambry is the Artistic Director of the historic Alberta House theater! He was voted Portland’s Best Actor by Willamette Week’s reader poll! He’s a fantastic live storyteller who has performed for The Moth podcast and BackFence PDX!

Event contact: Eden Dawn, eden@edendawn.com

Eden Dawn

EDEN DAWN is an award-winning writer, wardrobe stylist, and entrepreneur from Portland, Oregon. She's a beloved local personality, often seen performing at storytelling events, sitting on nonprofit advisory boards, chatting through live television segments, emceeing galas, and hosting her own quarterly series “Fashion in Film” at the historic Hollywood Theater.   Known well in the style community for her 11-year tenure as Oregon’s sole fashion editor for Portland Monthly magazine where she covered all facets of the field from hanging out in the glitter-filled closet of Darcelle, the world's oldest drag queen, to writing pieces on the mismanagement of pandemic unemployment funds for independent designers to styling hundreds of fancy looks in lauded photo editorials. She is the author of the best-selling Portland Book of Dates—a stylish, cheeky, curated guidebook of where the cool kids go, while educating readers on this treasured city. On the entrepreneurial front, she is the founder and operator of the activism-based nail polish company Claws Out where each color donates to a different progressive charity prompting Congresswoman Katie Porter to declare, “Claws Out represents the best of American small business.” The brand was tapped to create the first NBA polish for the Trailblazers and fabricated a custom color for the Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign team.  When she’s not writing or running a growing business, she’s wardrobe styling projects like caftan fashion editorials for Elizabeth Dye or music videos for Portugal the Man and Laura Gibson. She is married to her frequent collaborator, creative director and illustrator Ashod Simonian. They live in a slightly creaky 100-year-old house in Portland's Alberta Arts District with their three fluffy cats: Ruby, Daphne, and Foxglove.
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