The Portland Diary Summit
Gatherings for anyone who considers journaling and daily life documenting to be therapeutic, sacred, liberatory, a path to the unconscious or otherwise of interest.
Diaries, Notes, Sketches:
A Film Screening & Journaling Event for the New Year
a collaboration with
Experimental Exposure & Stelo Arts
January 1, 2026 6pm (doors) + 7pm (films)
Stelo Arts, 412 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR
The Portland Diary Summit returns with a special New Year’s Day film and journaling event. Partnering with Experimental Exposure, a film programming group presenting experimental films in their original analog format, and Stelo Arts, a community-oriented art space on Portland’s North Park Blocks. Diaries, Notes, Sketches offers Portlanders a rare opportunity to see 16mm and super8 diaristic films by Vivienne Dick, Holly Fisher, Isa Hesse-Rabinovich, and Edward Owens. During this relaxed screening event, we will savor these films together, taking breaks after each film to journal with prompts inspired by the films. Join us at Stelo to take a moment to reflect on and learn from 2025, and dream and fortify yourself for 2026. Bring your notebooks and we’ll provide the snacks and tea. Curated by Julie Perini and Cadie Godula.
buy tickets$10-$20 sliding scale. limited seating.
all funds pay for film rental from the Film-makers’ Cooperative. anything additional will go to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition and Outside the Frame. need a free ticket? email us.
$15 ticket
$20 ticket
Stelo is ADA accessible with two restrooms and a ground-floor entrance with double doors.
About the Portland Diary Summit
images:
Visibility: Moderate by Vivienne Dick (super8mm, 1981)
Remembrance: A Portrait Study by Edward Owens (16mm, 1967)
Soft Shoe by Holly Fisher (16mm, 1987)
Julie From Ohio by Isa Hesse-Rabinovich (16mm, 1978)