If I were free tonight in Portland, which I'm not, I would be into these two things and probably in this order, just because I love pickles so much (I even had a dream about pickles last night!).
1. The Dill Pickle Club presents the first annual Perfect Pickle over at the Ace Hotel.
- Via Dave
The Perfect Pickle is as a fundraiser and membership drive for The Dill Pickle Club, Portland’s volunteer-driven non-profit group dedicated to organizing non-traditional educational tours, program, and publication. 2010′s accomplishments and will be celebrated and 2011′s programs programs will be announce.
The main event is the Pickle Challenge, pitting chefs from Beast, Chop Butchery, DOC, Le Happy, Navarre, Olympic Provisions, Salt Fire & Time, and Unbound Pickling in a battle of pickles. Each chef will prepare a dozen jars of pickles from the same base ingredients to sell for the benefit of the Dill Pickle Club.
The celebrity judges: Dave Dahl (Dave’s Killer Bread), Tony Perez (Food Critic, Portland Mercury) and Courtney Sproule (Din Din Catering).
Guest get to sample too, before the Pickler of the Year trophy is awarded and the jars are auctioned off by AC Dickson!
To round out the evening there will be live musical performances by Marisa Anderson, Orca Team, and DJ Cuica, and Ninkasi and Coalition beers will be available.
The Perfect Pickle is free to members, $5 for everyone else – become a member at the event and receive $5 off membership. For more details visit the Dill Pickle Club events page.
PERFECT PICKLES SCHEDULE7PM Marisa Anderson plays music
7:45 Welcome, Pickle Judges talking about pickles with first 4 chefs
8PM Orca Team plays – set 1
8:20PM Pickle Judges talking about pickles with last 4 chefs
8:40PM Orca Team plays – set 2
9:00PM Mikey Kampmann, Sarah Mirk, How Does City Work? video
9:20PM DJ Cuica – set 1, a “pickle dance off”
9:45PM Cary Clarke, Walt Curtis
10:00PM AC Dickson does the great Pickle Auction
10:15PM Award Ceremony
10:20PM DJ Cuica – set 2
10:40PM Last Call
2. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Monday, February 7, 2011 - 7:00pm
Via the OMSI Science Pub Page
Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness.
More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of 21. According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, the reason for this mass exodus to virtual worlds is that videogames are increasingly fulfilling genuine human needs. In this groundbreaking exploration of the power and future of gaming, McGonigal reveals how we can use the lessons of game design to fix what is wrong with the real world.
Drawing on positive psychology, cognitive science, and sociology, Reality Is Broken uncovers how game designers have hit on core truths about what makes us happy and used these discoveries to astonishing effect in virtual environments. Videogames consistently provide the exhilarating rewards, stimulating challenges, and epic victories that are so often lacking in the real world. But why, McGonigal asks, should we use the power of games for escapist entertainment alone? Her research suggests that gamers are expert problem solvers and collaborators, since they cooperate with other players to overcome daunting virtual challenges, and she helped pioneer a fast-growing genre of games that aims to turn gameplay to socially positive ends.
In Reality Is Broken, she reveals how these new Alternate Reality Games are already improving the quality of our daily lives, fighting social problems like depression and obesity, and addressing vital twenty-first century challenges—and she forecasts the thrilling possibilities that lie ahead. She introduces us to games like World Without Oil, a simulation designed to brainstorm—and therefore avert—the challenges of a worldwide oil shortage, and Evoke, a game commissioned by the World Bank Institute that sends players on missions to address issues from poverty to climate change.
Jane McGonigal, PhD, is the director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times and on MTV, CNN, and NPR. In 2009, BusinessWeek called her one of the 10 most important innovators to watch. She has given keynote addresses at TED, South by Southwest Interactive, and the Game Developers Conference and was a featured speaker at The New Yorker Conference.
This Science Pub is presented in partnership with Powell’s Books. Powell’s will have Jane’s books available for purchase at the Science Pub and Jane will sign them after the talk.
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